In this post you’ll discover the easy recipe for 15 Bean Soup with Smoked Sausage – A One Pot Meal!

15 Bean soup is a nutritious and economical one pot meal. Depending on the size of your family, you may get more than one meal out of a pot of bean soup. Just serve with a side of corn bread or good crusty bread if you like.

This is a favorite supper for us during the cooler months of the year.

What Beans are in 15 Bean Soup?

The fifteen varieties in this bean soup mix include: Great Northern Beans, Pinto Beans, Large Lima (Butter Beans), Black Eyed Pea, Garbanzo, Baby Lima, Small Red Beans, Yellow Split Pea, Lentil, Navy beans, White Kidney, Green Split Peas, Cranberry Beans, Small White Beans and Black Bean.

The rich colors of the different beans make this dish as pleasing to the eye as it is delicious. You find all of these wonderful dry beans sold together in one package of Hurt’s Hambeens brand. You can find this bean mix at your local grocery store or Wal Mart store.

The Hurst beans classic recipe is delicious prepared on the stove top or in a slow cooker. Depending on the package of 15 bean soup that you choose, they do come with different seasoning packets that you can use in your homemade bean soup recipe.

This delicious beautiful blend of beans make it easy to create a variety of different soup bean meals to enjoy.

15 Bean Soup Recipe

Here’s what you’ll need to make 15 Bean Soup with Smoked Sausage:

1 package 15 Bean Soup Dry Beans (Hurst’s HamBeens brand recommended)
Chicken Broth or Chicken Stock, Turkey, Beef or Vegetable Broth or Vegetable Stock
Butter or Olive Oil
An Onion, yellow or white, diced
A few Stalks of Celery, diced
2 Bell Peppers, I used a yellow and red pepper but any color will do
Salt
Black Pepper
Onion Powder
3 Bay Leaves (optional)
Bean Soup Seasoning Packet (the flavor packet that comes with the bean mix)
1 package Beef Smoked Sausage , sliced or diced
8-10 cups Water for cooking – just enough water to cover the beans

More Ideas to Create a delicious Bean Soup

When cooking 15 bean soup or any bean soup, a seasoning meat adds so much delicious flavor. Popular seasonings meats include Country Ham, Ham Hocks, Leftover Ham, A Ham Bone, Smoked Ham Hock or Smoked Turkey Leg.

Smoked Sausage and Bean Soup

15 Bean Soup Recipe with Ham and Sausage

Although there are some beans in this mix that do not require soaking, I go ahead and soak them all. I mean who would want to pick out certain beans to soak, right?!? Soaking also gets rid of some of the, ahem, gases.

The longer beans soak, the more gas producing compounds break down. Pardon me. Soaking also reduces cooking time.

There are basically four important steps to using any dry beans:

1) Clean

2) Rinse

3) Soak

4) Cook

Clean and rinse beans and place in a large bowl, add 1/2 of the stock and fill the rest with fresh water until the beans are covered. Reserve the rest of the stock for cooking the beans. Cover the bowl and place in the refrigerator to soak overnight.

15 Bean Soup Mix Recipe

Remove your beans from soaking and pour into a colander and rinse well.

In a large pot or Dutch oven add 1 tablespoon of butter and heat over medium heat. Next add the diced onion, celery, and bell pepper and sauté until onions begin to become translucent.

Add the remaining stock to the pot along with the salt, pepper, onion powder, bay leaves. Add your beans, water, and flavor packet. Stir to combine all and bring to a boil. If you want to add a bit of zest to your beans try adding a splash of lemon juice or chili powder.

Reduce and cover pot leaving a vent. You may have to add more water during the cooking process due to evaporation. Cook 1 hour on a medium low heat.

Add the smoked sausage during the last 30 minutes of cooking to heat through.

Remember to remove your bay leaves (if using) when done.

If making the soups beans in your Crock Pot: Sauté the vegetables in a skillet the add the remaining ingredients to your slow cooker and cook on low for 6 to 8 hours. Allow enough cooking time until the beans are tender.

What to Serve with 15 Bean Soup?

You can serve this along with corn bread, crusty bread or Cheesy Jalapeno Corn Muffins.

This soup can be served over rice as well.

This is definitely a hearty meal, no matter how you choose to serve it.

Easy Bean Soup

15 Bean Soup Recipe Vegetarian: If you would like to prepare this recipe so that it is vegan friendly, use vegetable stock and omit the smoked sausage.

More delicious versions to try with 15 Bean Soup: Try this recipe using chicken breasts shredded or cooked minced ground beef instead of pork, they’re all delicious!

Full instructions and ingredient list for 15 Bean Soup with Smoked Sausage – A One Pot Meal in the printable recipe card below.

Yield: 1 Pot of Beans

15 Bean Soup with Smoked Sausage

Name: 15 Bean Soup with Smoked Sausage
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 2 h
Total time: 2 h 15 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 package 15 Bean Soup Dry Beans; 1 Carton Chicken, Turkey, Beef or Vegetable Stock; 1 tbs Butter; 1 Onion, yellow or white, diced; 3 Stalks of Celery, diced; 2 Bell Peppers, I used a yellow and red but any color will do; 1 tsp Salt; 1/2 tsp Black Pepper; 1/4 tsp Onion Powder; 3 Bay Leaves; Flavor Packet from 15 Bean Soup package; 1 package Beef Smoked Sausage , sliced or diced; 8-10 cups Water for cooking

This delicious one pot meal of 15 bean soup with smoked sausage is delicious. It is easy to customize this recipe using other variations or made to be vegan friendly.

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 2 hours

Total Time 2 hours 15 minutes

Ingredients

1 package 15 Bean Soup Dry Beans
1 Carton Chicken, Turkey, Beef or Vegetable Stock
1 tbs Butter
1 Onion, yellow or white, diced
3 Stalks of Celery, diced
2 Bell Peppers, I used a yellow and red but any color will do
1 tsp Salt
1/2 tsp Black Pepper
1/4 tsp Onion Powder
3 Bay Leaves
Flavor Packet from 15 Bean Soup package
1 package Beef Smoked Sausage , sliced or diced
8-10 cups Water for cooking

Instructions

Clean and rinse the beans and place in a bowl, add 1/2 of the stock and fill the rest with water until the beans are covered.

Cover the bowl and place in the refrigerator to soak overnight.

In a large pot add 1 tablespoon of butter and heat over medium heat then add the diced onion, celery, and bell pepper and saute until onions begin to become translucent.

Next, add the remaining stock to the pot along with the salt, pepper, onion powder, bay leaves.

Next, add the beans, water, and flavor packet. Stir to combine and bring to a boil.

Reduce the heat and cover pot leaving a vent. You may have to add more water during the cooking process due to evaporation.

Cook 2 hours on a medium low heat.

Add the smoked sausage the last half hour of cooking.

Serve hot with cornbread, if desired.

Notes

If you're not a fan of smoked sausage you can add diced chicken, cooked ground beef or ham to your beans or no meat at all.

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

12
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 417Total Fat: 11gSaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 6gCholesterol: 35mgSodium: 480mgCarbohydrates: 55gFiber: 22gSugar: 11gProtein: 25g

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Thank you so much for stopping by! I hope that you enjoy a delicious meal of 15 bean soup soon. This soup mix is a great way to serve up a budget friendly meal. The leftovers are even better the next day!

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Gail Marie

Sunday 22nd of March 2020

This looks amazing! And would be soooo good with a hot slice of buttered cornbread :)

Julia Jordan

Miss Gail, We are soul sisters! You know that I love me some good cornbread.

Dawn

Hi Julia, I'm a new subscriber to your blog and am loving it. Thank you for the inspiration during these trying and uncharted times. I will definitely visit your site as often as possible to help. In regards to this delicious looking soup that caught my eye I had a question. There are several photos, pot with veggies and beans and some sort of meat in with all the goodness, and aforementioned meat in the cutting board photo. I looked and looked again and didn't see a mention of "the meat" anywhere. Is it salt pork? Please let me know as I have a bag of 15 bean Ham Beens in my pantry and would love to whip this up. I'm your northern neighbor by the way, up in Charlotte, NC. Look forward to hearing back from you.

Dawn, Thank you so much for being here! I'm so happy that you stopped by!! I just snapped some new photos of this recipe that I originally published a few years ago. The other meat is a seasoning meat - country ham pieces to be specific. It adds a bit of extra flavor while they cook. I hope that you're well up in Charlotte! We used to live in Lake Wylie, S.C. just south of Charlotte so I know that area well. Take care and I hope that you enjoy this recipe. ~Julia

mizsuzee

Tuesday 16th of February 2016

Just wondering - would this also be good with andouille sausage?

Julia

Yes, you could use any kind of smoked sausage.