Recipe - Tamale Soup (Follow Your Heart)

MAKES 3One half TO 4 QUARTS
2 2/3 cup (1 pound) dried pinto beens;
presoaked
8 cup Water
1 lg Bay leaf
1 cup Chopped yellow onion
One half cup Diced green or red bell
pepper
2 cup Chopped celery
1 tablespoon Dried chives
1 teaspoon Celery salt
3 md Cloves garlic; pressed or
minced
1 tablespoon Tamari
One fourth teaspoon Cayenne pepper
2 teaspoon Ground cumin
1/3 cup Olive oil
Three fourths cup Yellow cornmeal
1 tablespoon Imitation; (soy) bacon bits
Sea salt; to taste

Soak beans in 6 cups water for at least 6 hours or overnight. Drain and
discard soaking water.

In a 5 or 6quart pot, bring 8 cups of water, along with presoaked pinto
beans and bay leaf, to a boil. Simmer, covered, for about 20 minutes.

Add the onion, bell pepper, celery, chives, celery salt, garlic, tamari,
cayenne pepper, cumin and olive oil. Return mixture to a boil, then reduce
heat and simmer, covered, until beans are tender, about 30 minutes.

In a blender, combine 2 cups of the hot soup broth with cornmeal and
imitation bacon bits until smooth. (Keep lid on tight.) Stirring
constantly, gradually add cornmeal mixture to soup. Simmer and continue
cooking for about 10 minutes, or until cornmeal is cooked (soup will
thicken). Add sea salt, and adjust seasonings to taste. Serve hot.

Per serving (1One half cups) 277 calories, 26 percent fat (8 grams), 57 percent
carbs, 17 percent protein.

recipe from SHAPE Cooks Spring 1998. from kitpath to eatlf cookbooks on
98Feb

Lime may be substituted for the tamari.

Prep/cook time: 1 hour

Notes: Sample recipe from the Follow Your Heart's Vegetarian Soup Cookbook
(Woodridge Press, 1995). The restaurant opened in the late sixties in the
Los Angeles area in the back of a natural foods store. The soups have
always drawn crowds.

PUBLICATION: 1995. Amazon lists 1983 with no mention of 1995 release.
Follow Your Heart's Vegetarian Soup Cookbook by Janice Cook Migliaccio
List: $7.95. Our Price: $6.36: Published by Woodbridge Pr Pub Publication
date: November 1, 1983 ISBN: 0880071311

Recipe by: Follow Your Heart, Canoga Park, CA Recipe by "Pillsbury
Kitchens' Family Cookbook" 1979 edition
Posted to MCRecipe Digest by KitPATh phannema@wizard.ucr.edu on Feb 17,
1998