Spicy Tomato-Bean Soup With Greens With Garlic Bread

"I tossed this recipe together on my birthday when I found I was short of ingredients for a Tuscan Bean and Greens soup I wanted to make. It resembles a spicy marinara sauce but in soup form. This soup is amazing and super easy to make, and when coupled with homemade garlic bread you'll find yourself in soup heaven. This recipe works as an appetizer and a main meal."
 
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Ready In:
40mins
Ingredients:
14
Serves:
4-6
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ingredients

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directions

  • For the soup, puree the tomatoes with brown sugar, 1 cup vegetable broth, a pinch of sea salt and a pinch of fresh cracked pepper in a food processor until smooth and set aside.
  • In a large pot, heat the oil on medium and sautee the garlic until golden and fragrant.
  • Add the crushed pepper, a 1/4 teaspoon of sea salt, and the shallot and sautee for a couple of minutes.
  • Add the escarole and stir until wilted.
  • Add the tomato puree and the beans and stir a few times. Add another pinch of sea salt, some fresh cracked pepper, and cover the soup.
  • Bring the soup to a boil and then reduce to a simmer and let the soup cook for 20 minutes.
  • For garlic bread, preheat the oven to 350. Crush three cloves of garlic and mix with olive oil until combined.
  • Brush each side of each slice of bread with garlic oil and bake until lightly browned on each side. Depending on your oven, this will probably take about 2 to 5 minutes.
  • Place a slice of garlic bread at the bottom of a bowl, ladle on the soup and enjoy.

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<p>I grew up in a family of cooks.&nbsp; My mother cooked, my grandmother cooked, and so did my great grandmother.&nbsp; My uncles and aunt could cook but the real cooking skills were passed to my mother from&nbsp;grandmother and to my grandmother from my great grandmother.&nbsp; Also growing up in a mostly Jewish family,&nbsp;you're surrounded by cooks.&nbsp; Neither of the women, or the men, in my family had any formal training, they all learned from each other.</p> <p>Me, I learned from my grandmother and mother by watching and working with them,&nbsp;and from reading a lot of cookbooks.&nbsp; My journey through the world of food and knives has been a journey of trial and error, and it still is, but that's what makes cooking so much fun.&nbsp; You never stop learning.&nbsp; It's a form of art like painting and sculpting. &nbsp;</p>
 
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