Easiest Way to Prepare Appetizing Capitol Hill Bean Soup

Capitol Hill Bean Soup.

You can cook Capitol Hill Bean Soup using 10 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Capitol Hill Bean Soup

1. You need of dried white navy beans, sorted of debris and rinsed.
2. You need of (about 1-lb.) ham bone or uncured ham hock (I used the center bone with lots of meat from the ham dinner we had the day before).
3. Prepare of water (10 cups).
4. Prepare of large russet potato (about 8 oz.).
5. You need of chopped celery (about 6 stalks).
6. It's of chopped yellow onion (about 3 medium onions).
7. Prepare of Garlic clove, minced.
8. You need of kosher salt.
9. Prepare of black pepper.
10. Prepare of chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley.

Capitol Hill Bean Soup step by step

1. Place beans in a Dutch oven or large casserole; add water to cover, and soak 8 hours or overnight. Drain beans. Add ham bone and water. Cover and bring to a boil over high; reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer 1 hour..
2. Rinse potato; pierce with a fork, and wrap potato in a paper towel. Microwave on HIGH until tender, about 4 to 5 minutes; peel and mash potato. Stir potato, celery, onion, garlic, salt, and pepper into bean mixture; simmer over medium-low until beans are tender, about 1 hour..
3. Remove ham bone from Dutch oven, and let stand until cool enough to handle, about 20 minutes. Remove and discard bone and fat; dice meat, and stir into bean mixture. Top each serving with chopped parsley.