Spicy Vegetable Soup With Black Beans

Recipe Ingredients

1		Onion - chopped (medium)
4		Garlic cloves - minced (large)
1/2 cup	118ml	Red wine - stock, or water
1		Crushed tomatoes
4 cups	948ml	Water or stock
1		Green bell pepper - diced
2		Celery - diced
2 cups	474ml	Sliced okra
2 teaspoons	10ml	Finely minced fresh ginger
		(don't omit ginger)
1 teaspoon	5ml	Dried oregano - dried thyme paprika, and ground cumin
1/4 teaspoon	1.3ml	Black pepper and
		Cayenne pepper
1 cup	146g / 5.1oz	Diced zucchini
1		Black beans - with liquid
1 tablespoon	15ml	Soy sauce - up to 2
4 cups	640g / 22oz	Cooked brown rice

Recipe Instructions

Braise the onion and garlic in wine until onion is soft. Add tomatoes, water, green pepper, celery, okra, ginger, and seasonings; simmer for 15 minutes.

Add the diced zucchini and the black beans with their liquid, cover and cook until the zucchini is just tender, about 10 minutes. Add soy sauce to taste.

Serve over cooked brown rice.

Source:
Food for Life, Neal Barnard, MD, Library No. 613.262B, Page 230

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