PORTUGUESE BEAN SOUP

Ingredients

2 cups kidney beans
1 cup white beans (Great Northerns)
2 smoked ham hocks or Ham shank
4 cups chicken broth
1-1/2 cups chopped cilantro (Chinese parsley)
2-1/2 cups diced potatoes, peeled (red or white)
2-1/2 cups carrots, cut into 1" size
1-1/2 cups diced onion (Maui or yellow)
1/2 cup diced celery
1 Portuguese sausage (10 oz or bigger) your choice
2-1/4 cups tomato pur'ee or (16oz's of tomato sauce w/ 3 table spoons corn starch) no
problem...
1 teaspoon salt ( give or take )
1/2 teaspoon black pepper ( give or take )
6-7 cups water
Tabasco or da small hot Hawaiian chili pepper, if you like to taste.... 

How to Prepare

Soak the beans in water overnight, if using da dry kine. In one large pot put together beans, ham, chicken broth, cilantro and water to cover (about 7 cups). Bring to a boil, then simmer (slow cook) until meat and beans are tender. Remove the skin and bone's from the meat and return to the broth. Slice the Portuguese sausage into 1/2" slices and fry in frying pan, blot (remove the grease) w/ a paper towel. Add sausage to the pot and the potatoes, carrots, celery, onions, tomato puree or tomato sauce mixture. Cook until Potatoes are tender. Season w/salt and pepper.

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