Black Bean Soup with Mojo

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So flavorful. The mojo is a MUST. Chose this recipe to use up some canned black beans, so reduced water by over half. Garbanzo beans/ chickpeas would be a great vegetarian alternative to the pork ribs. Forgot the onion and it was still delicious! Huge garlic fan, and this recipe was perfect for that.

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Make it into a meal. I omit the rum & use boneless country style pork ribs. After everything is cooked, I remove the bay leaves, garlic head & ribs. I chop the pork meat while removing any fat. I squeeze some the of soft garlic into the mixture & then I use a handheld blender to buzz half of the mixture in the slow cooker. I only like to buzz half because I like the texture. Then I add the meat back in. I top the soup with white rice in the middle & mojo drizzled on top. Please do not skip making the mojo, it's what gives it that extra flavor! Everyone loves this dish.

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I'm not the best cook in the world, but I tried this and really didn't like it. I thought I would but it lacked flavor even with the mojo. I lived in Miami for a time and was exposed to some really good black bean soups, so maybe my expectations were a little too high.

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Great, easy, slow-cooker soup. I used half as many pork ribs and wish I'd had more. They were delicious. It was a little spicy for my toddler son, but nice and meaty for the adults. I cooked this on low for 8 hours and the dry beans cooked just fine. I also had no trouble with a quick stick blend. Very easy prep - just cut up the onion and chop the head off a garlic clove. My garlic held together nicely without cheesecloth - easy to remove. I liked the mojo, but you really only need a half order - the garlic is a bit strong, but a nice flavor contrast to the soup.

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I also did not use rum and this recipe was absolutely delicious! Quick, easy and fairly cheap, I will be making this recipe many more times in the future. Only modifications I made, besides not using rum, was I added a large shallot and I did not cook the garlic in olive oil for the mojo sauce, instead just used chopped garlic in room temp olive oil.

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This came out great for me. I didn't use the Rum because I wasn't going to buy a bottle just for an ingredient. I don't think it changed it that much. When we pulled the pork out to remove the bone we found the garlic half and I squeezed that garlic out of its shell right back into the soup. I served this with corn muffins and it is one of the tastiest soups I have ever made.

BTW, the people asking about the recipe being vague about the bay leaves, I was under the impression that you always take them out, that they are inedible.

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This soup was excellent. As far the garlic and bay leaves, I just wrapped some cheesecloth around all of it and tied it. Glad I did because some of the garlic cloves separated during cooking. Easy to take the bundle out at the end.

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YUMMMM!!!!

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I liked this soup. Made it in the crock pot for ease. Didn't have any ribs, so I used a pork roast bone and some peppered bacon. (It would have benefited from the ribs. The mojo really flavored it up. First big storm of the season, can't wait for lunch :.

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i HATE cilantro. hate hate hate it. so instead i used the same amount of thyme and that worked perfectly. i heated up the garlic in the mojo a bit too long, tho, but other than that i love the way its flavors mix with the soup. for the soup i added a carrot because i had one and used beef ribs instead of pork because i forgot which one to buy. i don't regret either of those choices, the soup still tastes amazing. It took me a bit longer to do the pureeing n all that than i would have liked, tho, so it will probably be a while before i make this again. i will definitely make it again, tho.