15 Minute Black Bean Soup
This recipe makes one perfect portion of black bean soup in just 15 minutes. It’s super tasty, quick and versatile!
Black bean soup is definitely one of my favourite soups ever, if not the favourite. Black beans seem to have so much more flavour than other beans. I don’t know if it’s just a psychological thing, because they give such a beautifully dark, rich soup – but whatever the reason, they’re damn tasty.
The best thing about this black bean soup (aside from being yummy) is that it only takes 15 minutes to make!
Fellow lazies, I’ve got your back.
This recipe makes one perfect portion, so it’s great to make if you’re home alone. Of course, it can easily be scaled up if you want a bigger batch, but this recipe has come to my rescue time and time again when I’ve been on my own. With no-one around to see, it’s all too tempting to reach for a bag of crisps or a packet of biscuits and call it lunch, but it’s not exactly a good idea. This 15 minute black bean soup is much more sensible – it’s quick and easy to make, it’s totally delicious, and it’s much healthier than a packet of biscuits (quite the compliment).
Oh, and it’s very faff-free too – because who can be bothered to spend ages prepping ten different kinds of fresh veg when you’re only cooking one portion of something?
Since the black bean soup itself is so simple, I like to liven mine up with a nice bit of garnish. You can add whatever you fancy – a dollop of yogurt or sour cream, chopped coriander (cilantro), spring onions, a squeeze of lime, freshly chopped tomatoes, avocado, grated cheese… or just whatever you happen to have in the fridge.
15 minute black bean soup
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Print Pin CommentIngredients
- 2 medium tomatoes
- 400 g tin black beans, drained (240g, or ~ 1 1/4 cups, when drained)
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- 1 tsp hot chilli powder
- 1/2 tbsp chipotle hot sauce (or other favourite hot sauce)
- Salt
- Black pepper
- To serve, your choice of: Greek yogurt or sour cream, chopped spring onions, chopped coriander (cilantro), lime juice, grated cheese, diced tomato, etc.
Instructions
- Dice the tomatoes, and add them to a small saucepan with the remaining soup ingredients. Cook over a medium heat for around 10 minutes, until the tomatoes are soft. Squash the tomatoes with the back of the spoon, and season to taste. If you’d like a thinner soup, just add a dash of water.
- Serve the black bean soup with your choice of garnish.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutritional information is approximate, and will depend on your exact ingredients. Please calculate your own nutritional values if you require accuracy for health reasons.
Note: Nutritional information is approximate, and will depend on exactly what ingredients you choose. Information above is for the full recipe.
About how many cups/grams would you say the two tomatoes make once chopped? I’m trying to scale this up for my family and wondering if I could just use a tin of diced tomatoes instead of fresh, but don’t want to mess up the amounts.
Hmm, maybe 1/3 cup ish? How many of you are there? A tin of tomatoes would totally work, they’re just there to add a bit of liquid and some extra flavour! Depending on how many are in your family, maybe 4 tins of black beans and 1 tin of tomatoes would feed about 4?
Thanks for sharing this! I’m really into soups atm, especially veggie ones and was struggling with ideas!
Sounds yum! I like that it is a one portion recipe too – normally I have to freeze pots and pots of soup as the recipes are so huge!
I never have room in my freezer for things like that!
I’m sooo glad you posted this, I really want to try it, thanks so much for sharing!!!!
Some tasty nachos chips with this would be divine! I love the sound of this soup :)
Tortilla chips are brilliant as a kind of Mexican crouton ;)
This looks so tasty and filling and I love the idea of serving it with sour cream!
Hailing for Florida, black beans are my comfort food. This ebony bowl of deliciousness looks like it would be great as a nacho topping too. Just saying ;-)
Yesss that would be great! Actually this is basically the same how I always cook black beans when I make fajitas or enchiladas too :D
I always love your recipes and photos! This is so my kind of food :-) Added to my scheduled pins!
Aw thank you so much Aimee! :)
Tinned black beans aren’t going to happen here in Nepal but I’ve got some growing in my garden this year that will be ready soon! I think my Indian family would like this recipe.
Ooh wow homegrown black beans! Very impressed :)
I have never had anything with black beans before but this does look really yummy so I will have to try it!