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Black Bean Soup

Black Bean Soup
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Full of Beans

Black Bean Soup

For a black bean soup recipe that would produce an attractive, dark-colored soup that was full of sweet, spicy, and smoky flavors, we went with dried beans, which release flavor into the broth as they cook, unlike canned beans.
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