Senate Bean Soup

• 1 pound navy beans, dried
• 2 quarts chicken broth
• 1 each ham hock smoked
• 1 large onions chopped
• 8 ounces carrots peeled, diced
• 8 ounces celery diced
• 2 each garlic cloves minced
• 1 each onions pique
• 3 cups potatoes diced
• 1 x red hot pepper sauce to taste

1. Soak beans overnight.
2. Combine beans, soaking liquid, stock, hock, and cook for 1 hour.
3. Sweat the onions, carrots, and celery for 4 or 5 minutes, or until the onions are translucent.
4. Add the garlic until you can smell the aroma.
5. Add the beans, stock mixture, and hock to the vegetables.
6. Add the onion pique and potatoes and simmer until the beans and potato are tender.
7. Remove the onion pique and ham hock.
8. Dice ham and reserve.
9. Puree half the soup.
10. Recombine the puree and reserved ham with the soup.
11. Adjust the seasoning with tabasco and with salt and pepper.

navy beans, chicken broth, onions, carrots, celery, garlic, onions pique, potatoes, red hot pepper sauce

Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/senate-bean-soup-33929 (may not work)