This white bean soup is packed with irresistible flavors thanks to kale, lemon, and tarragon! This healthy recipe will become an instant favorite.
Here’s a healthy soup that you’ll be adding to your regular rotation right away…because it is as good as. try that White bean soup Recipe, full of humble ingredients and great taste! It’s a new favorite here, especially now that soup season has arrived. Tender kidney beans swim in the cozy broth with soft potatoes and kale. Lemon zest adds luminosity and tarragon brings an herbaceous undertone. The best part? It consists of 100% vegetables and tastes fantastic. We tested it on friends and family and they immediately asked for the recipe!
Ingredients for this White Bean Soup recipe
This humble white bean soup is built for speed. In fact, it takes just over 30 minutes to make (or less if you have quick knife skills). Since it’s quick, you should use canned beans here. Use your favorite variety of canned kidney beans! Here’s what you need:
- Vegetables: Onion, carrot, garlic, yellow potato and kale
- olive oil
- vegetable soup
- Canned or cooked white beans: Cannellini, Great Northern, Marinade, Butter or other
- Lemon peel
- Dried tarragon: there is absolutely taste! It’s worth buying this spice from the store if you don’t already have it on hand. In a pinch, dried sage, dill, or thyme can step in, but try to use the original if you can.
- salt and pepper
Types of White Beans
You can use any type of kidney beans in this recipe! We like to use cannellini beans for their creamy texture and size. But any type works! Here are some of the top white beans you’ll find in the store:
- Cannellini Beans: cannellini beans (can-a-leen-ee) are a large, kidney-shaped Italian variety with a creamy texture and mild flavor.
- Great North: These are smaller than cannellini and are lighter white in color. They also have a mild flavor with a nutty undertone.
- Marine: White beans are the smallest white bean species. They have a mild flavor and get their name from being a popular staple for the US Navy in the early 1900s.
- Butter: Butter beans are the largest of the navy bean family and have a creamy, rich flavor. Butter beans are sold at many dry and canned stores. Their size gives this soup a stunning look!
Can you use dried kidney beans in this soup?
Yes! Simply cook up a white bean casserole using your favorite method: we like the Dutch Oven method or the Instant Pot method. Then use 4 ½ cups of cooked kidney beans to replace the 3 15-ounce cans.
Mix this soup with white beans and kale
The key to this delicious white bean soup? Stir the broth to make it slightly creamy! Here are some notes about this step:
- The key to a slightly creamy broth? Take out 3 cups of soup and puree, then put back in the pot! You can use a standard blender or an immersion blender for this job.
- feeling lazy? You can skip this step. The soup always tastes great! We prefer it with the textured broth, but it’s great either way.
Note on serving size
This white bean soup is for a large soup pot with 4-6 sufficient portions. ‘Cause here’s the thing. We originally made a humble version of the recipe for 4 servings, but the jar disappeared far too quickly! In our opinion, if you want to make a pot of soup, you have to have leftovers. And these leftovers keep well!
Would you like to make the 4 serving version of this soup? Just multiply everything below by 0.75 and they’re rounded numbers! For the vegetable broth you can use 1 liter of broth and 1 cup of water.
store leftovers
Got any leftover white bean soup? It’s great for lunch the next day and the flavor only gets better with time! Store in the refrigerator for up to 3 days or frozen for up to 3 months.
Side dishes to serve with this soup recipe
What to serve with the soup? There are many ways to turn this into a healthy meal! We are happy to serve this with a fresh salad with a little more protein or a piece of crusty or toasted bread. Here are a few ideas:
Healthier Soup Recipes
do you like soups This one is incredibly healthy: it’s vegan, vegetarian and full of nutritious veggies! Here are a few more of our favorite healthy soup recipes for soup season:
This white bean soup recipe is…
Vegetarian, vegan, plant-based, dairy-free and gluten-free.
The description
This white bean soup is packed with irresistible flavors thanks to kale, lemon, and tarragon! This healthy recipe will become an instant favorite.
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 large sweet yellow onion, finely diced
- 2 medium carrots, peeled and diced
- 3 Celery ribs, thinly sliced
- 6 chopped garlic cloves
- 1 Pound yellow or Yukon Gold potatoes, finely diced
- 3 15 ounce cans (4 ½ cups cooked) cannellini beans, drained and rinsed (or great northern, navy, butter, or other white beans)
- 2 liters vegetable soup
- 1½ teaspoons Lemon peel
- 1½ teaspoons dried tarragon*
- ¾ teaspoon kosher salt or more to taste
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 5 at 6 Tuscan cabbage leaves, cut into small pieces
- Prepare the fresh ingredients (see above).
- In a Dutch oven or large saucepan, heat the olive oil over medium-high heat. Add onion, carrot and celery and sauté for 5 minutes.
- Add minced garlic and cook until just golden brown, about 1 minute. Add potatoes, drained and rinsed kidney beans, vegetable stock, lemon zest, dried tarragon, kosher salt, and freshly ground black pepper. Bring to a boil and simmer for 15 minutes until potatoes are tender.
- Take out 3 cups of hot soup (including stock and vegetables) and puree thoroughly in a blender or immersion blender. Then pour it into the pan to create a slightly creamy broth (you can skip this step if you want and it still tastes great!).
- Stir in chopped kale and cook until tender, about 2 minutes longer. Taste and optionally add additional salt to taste (depending on your brand of vegetable broth). Eat immediately or store leftovers in the refrigerator for up to 3 days or frozen for up to 3 months.
Remarks
*We highly recommend getting some dried tarragon from the store if you don’t have it in your pantry on a regular basis: it makes the soup! In a pinch, substitute dried sage or thyme.
- Category: Soup
- Method: Cook
- Kitchen: Soup
- Diet: vegan
Keywords: White bean soup, white bean soup recipe, white bean kale soup
