This one hits the spot! Beyond great! I agree about the more veggies & beans. I would love to try it in the slow cooker, too. In addition, canned beans have too much sodium for me so I have to use dried beans. In a large pan, cook the bacon until it is crisp. I have tried a couple of other recipes with no luck. An all time favorite as a kid, but do not like the canned soup anymore. It’s so good! Season to taste with salt and pepper. This was wonderful soup! Just made this for dinner tonight. You should be able to find tomato sauce with the canned tomatoes in the grocery store. Should this soup be simmered covered or uncovered? Stir in … Once my broth is finished simmering for about 45 minutes I’m ready to start a hearty soup. Wow, wow, wow. and I definitely think calories from beans are different than eating a ton of calories from something less nutritious. Here you will find easy, fast and family friendly recipes. So many questions! I would probably just add a bit more salt or pepper. Thanks for forging ahead so I now can make it! Oh btw, I’ve been slipping in two bay leaves for an extra layer of flavor. Even my husband loves it! Remove bacon from pan, reserving 2 teaspoons drippings in pan. Come join me in my kitchen! I doubled the recipe for our big family and it fit in my 6 qt pot. Will definitely make it again. And there I saw it – the Bean with Bacon soup. I’m so glad to hear that it works well in the Instant Pot! That cannot be right. this soup was delicious! Fav soup, now home made only canned YUK & exspensive, This is a pressure cooker recipe waiting to be born. To the hot bacon grease, add the onions, carrots and celery. Always so good, amazingly so if you’re comparing it to canned. I still love Campbell’s bean with bacon, but it has gotten to be pretty expensive, to get enough for all my kids and grandkids. I love that bean soup. I ,too, loved this soup when I was young. Add the tomato sauce and 3/4 of the reserved bacon and stir to combine. I never write a review until I have actually made a recipe…who cares if I think it looks good…taste is what matters! Discard all but about 2 tablespoons of the bacon grease. Thank you! Made this today and it was proclaimed a keeper. Thank you! NEVER!! Only the tomato puree is pure tomatoes in its finest/smoothest texture and is a “pure tomato” sauce-textured product. We often double the recipe. Good luck and enjoy this wonderful soup! I also love homemade stock & concentrate prior to freezing…. Was. It was delicious and despite being 100 degrees today, I enjoyed a small bowl. Your mom was a smart woman for cooking light on Sundays. I’ll be adding diced ham as well for tonight’s batch and serving with cheddar biscuits. Over all this is a super recipe as is and doesn’t actually need any messing with. I think your best bet would be to just use the paste. I bought a can once about 15 years ago but it didn’t taste as good as I had remembered either. But I always use smoked sausage, sliced. Also known as, my go-to soup for the colder seasons! LOVE Bean with Bacon Soup – I can not wait to try this homemade version. I’m sure it wouldn’t have had the same taste with Oscar Meyer. Just wanted to let you know that I just finished making the 2nd batch of this soup in a week. I’m with your daughter Deborah, I’d eat homemade soup every day (if you made it for me!). Still great though. Like many, I grew up on the canned bean and bacon soup. I cannot wait to try this recipe! Everything that goes into this Creamy White Bean and Bacon Soup recipe! Made this yesterday and it is wonderful! I made it this morning so that I could serve it for lunch with some heavenly homemade bread. So good! I used to eat Bean and Bacon Soup from a can and candidly it is not a soup that has crossed my mind to make from scratch. Thanks for the great recipe! And we cannot forget the amazing bacon that finished off this soup so nicely. Mine is broken and has been leaking. Used a natural uncared bacon with no artificial ingredients, glad they make this now. This was only enough for my husband & me (with a little bit left over) so either we are big eaters or this doesn t make a lot. I doubled the bacon (cause I love me some bacon) and the cherry smoked makes it perfect. Thanks. Add water to cover by about an inch, Stir and process for 11 minutes under … I feel the same wY you do. After choosing the perfect bacon, the rest was pretty easy. This is a super recipe, and I think it has everything I like about the Campbell’s version and yet it’s much healthie! Added ham too! In Wellington there is a great butcher that is fantastic at helping this Yank find substuites for American cuts of meats when I visit. Another thing that brings the price down is if you can find bacon ends and pieces, rather than the sliced bacon. Thank you. Save a little bit of the bacon grease and cook some onions, carrots, celery and garlic in it. I used my dehydrated, carrot, onion, celery and garlic. I also loved canned Bean and Bacon as a kid. Very hearty soup. Stir in 3/4 of the cooked bacon, while reserving remainder in a small resealable bag in refrigerator until ready to use. We eat lots of homemade soup all year but mostly in the fall/winter. This, my new friend, is the bean with bacon soup recipe I’ve been looking for. In the mean time I can’t stop eating it. There was only one problem with the recipe. I’m so happy you loved it! I have another ingredients question- the beans, what type are they rather than the brand that we can’t get. I thought the soup tasted great without it and was slightly disappointed with the flavor change after I added it. Just made this for dinner tonight and we devoured it! So happy to have seen this fabulous recipe. It’s in the crockpot to simmer all day for dinner tonite! Making this a second time since the first time was outstanding. Great recipe! I occsionally have to add a bit more chicken broth or water. I followed the recipe with the exception of using 3/4 of a pound of bacon (if some’s good, more’s better right?) Gak again. As for the tomatoe sauce, I always have Goya tomatoe sauce in my cabinet. I think this recipe looks delicious! So naturally, I chose my favorite Jones Dairy Farm bacon – their Dry Aged Cherrywood Smoked Bacon. This is awesome! I have been wanting to make a soup like this for awhile. It has all the flavor of a slow cooked bean soup, but only takes 40 minutes to make! Hi Yum can’t, wait to try but I’m also in Australia so will wait till winter. Hoping the soup freezes well. It tasted completely fake. Thank you for posting. Can’t wait to try this one. Will make it again and again! 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