Marry Me Bean Soup Recipe

I doubled the broth using vegetable broth as my preferred flavor. I do wonder if everyone drains the canned beans to reduce sodium?

This recipe is a real Zinger! I, too, will be offering it at my gatherings as a "vegetarian" option, though I'm tripling the recipe because I'm sure everyone will want to sample it then come back for seconds. The instructions didn't mention anything about draining the juice from the beans, or perhaps I missed seeing it. I did drain the can and added a half cup extra of the chicken stock. Also, I used Smoked Paprika and a pinch of Cayenne.

I used a can of coconut milk instead of the dairy. My family enjoyed it, even the kids!

We made this recipe with dried Anasazi beans. We soaked over night, then in the morning cooked with water and chicken broth just enough to make them tender. It turned out amazing and made enough to freeze. Which it did freeze well.

Don't like sun-dried tomatoes so replaced it, and the tomato sauce, with pasta sauce. Also, when I use paprika (which is often) it has to be "smoked paprika", which I'm addicted to. Left out the basil, which I have to be in the mood for, and substituted heavy cream for half-and-half with a bit of cornstarch to cut down on heavy cream's ridiculous calorie count.

WOW - this is amazing!!! You want convenience, filling AND awesome flavor? This is it! Best thing? It tastes even better the next day IF you have a bit left over! Three substitutions (and it still came out great): 1) Two teaspoons of dried, rubbed basil (didn't have fresh); 2) A little bit of water while simmering the beans (just enough to cover them) so they wouldn't stick to the pot; 3) Chicken stock (didn't have broth). I also rinsed the beans before cooking to remove the sodium.

I cooked my own beans and they were still too firm. Next time will try canned beans. But it was so flavorful and easy to make. I passed half the heavy cream and used milk and used 1/2 Parmesan as that's all I had and used whatever other cheeses I had. Also added some more chicken broth.

I used 2 3oz. bags of dried tomatoes. 5 tbl sp of butter vs. 8 . 1 large -Ish Vidalia onion diced. But that was all.

I added a lot of extra chicken broth. I didn’t use the water from the beans so maybe that is why.

I made it with a lot of substitutions. I used cannellini beans. And added diced tomatoes. The overall flavor really was great.

I liked the list of ingredients but made 3 changes. I added hot Italian sausage for a meat protein and replaced the spinach with bumpy kale because it has far less oxalates than spinach. Oh, and I simmered fresh white beans rather than using canned. It was dynamite. Thanks for the idea.

This recipe does not nearly call for the right amount of liquid. We doubled the recipe but still 1 cup is totally insufficient. Also, 1 teaspoon of red pepper flakes is way too much. Should be more like a pinch. The flavor in general was decent, but this recipe overall was a huge fail. Wasted ingredients and we had to get takeout. Horrible. You MUST adjust the measurements if you want to make this taste good.

Not a huge fan of the stringy spinach and/or basil (but I wouldn't leave the basil out because I personally loooove basil. Next time I'll probably just use dried basil instead). And it came out waaay too thick (maybe I cooked too long?) Paired pretty darn well with Kentucky Hot Browns tho.

Filling, quick, flavorful comfort food. Made it with what I had after church—arugula for spinach, dried basil for fresh, halved everything since I had only half a can of beans left. Grilled some French bread with olive oil. Beautiful!!

I tried it without onion but used onion powder and I sliced my garlic because I didn't have a garlic press I would leave out the basil Made a lot less than I thought

This meal was sooo easy! The only change I made was about 4 cups rotisserie chicken. My kids of all ages loved it. I love that it was so high in protein. Doubled the recipe and had no leftovers so will likely quadruple it next time.

This is what winning at dinner looks like.

Very tasty. Would add some shrimp or white fish and some shiitake mushrooms.

Made this with chickpeas and coconut milk - the flavors were incredible. It's on the household request list now.

I just made this and it came out great! Thank you so much for sharing this recipe! Everyone in my household loves it, even the cat was attracted to its aroma, but he did not get any.