 Hey y'all, welcome to What Chelsea Eats. Thank you so much for joining me today. In this video, I am going to share with you this recipe for a healing white bean soup. I love making soups in the wintertime. It helps to keep you warm. It's cozy. And the key to making a healing soup is to make the soup very clean. So if you want to see how I make this clean healing soup, then stay tuned. So to make this recipe, I am going to be using a soup pot. I'm going to be using my 360 cookware. You guys know I love 360. If you're interested in learning more about it, there is a link down below where I've done a review video. And there is a discount code if you decide you want it. It's WCE 25. I don't cook with oil, so I'm using no sodium vegetable broth so that I can start to saute my vegetables. Also, I will put all of the ingredients that I'm using in this recipe down in the description box below this video. I started off with baby onions. I absolutely have fallen in love with these baby onions. They add so much flavor to your dishes. And I've got garlic. I used four or six cloves of garlic. You can use more or less. You can leave it out. I'm just a garlic fan. So this is a very garlicky soup, but you don't have to make yours garlic. You can make it your own. So I let that saute a little bit and get those flavors meld together. And the next ingredient that I'm going to add are my carrots. I had this huge carrot that I wanted to add to this recipe just to give this soup some body or some texture. And I'm not even sure that's the word. I think maybe something to make it a little more filling or dense. So I added the carrot and it was the perfect addition. Because whenever I saute my vegetables and I make soups, I don't cook my vegetables to death where they're all soft. So whenever I take a bite, there is a slight crunch through the vegetables when I eat my soup. So I let the vegetables cook for a little bit and now it's time to add my mushrooms. I have chopped some portobello mushrooms. This is about two cups of portobello mushrooms. And I absolutely love mushrooms in soup because it gives you a meaty texture, especially if you use mushrooms like the large portobello mushrooms or shiitake mushrooms. It actually adds a denseness to the soup that it wouldn't have if you didn't add them. So you stir that around and let that cook for a minute. Doesn't that look delicious? All those flavors just melding together to make this delicious pot of healing soup. Next I'm going to add the no salt diced tomatoes and start around and get it combined with the other soup ingredients. Now I'm going to add the spices. There's thyme, there's garlic, there's onion powder, there's garlic powder, there's black pepper, a bay leaf, red pepper flakes. Everything that you need to put in this recipe is down in the description box below. So once you get those spices in there, you stir them around and let the flavors meld into the vegetables. I wish you had smell of vision because this smells so so good. Next I'm going to add beans. If you don't eat beans or if beans don't agree with you, you can add either another vegetable or you can add lentils to your recipe. You can put whatever you want in this recipe. You can even add more mushrooms. Whatever is going to make the soup good for you in your lifestyle. But I love the way the white beans taste in this soup recipe. So I am on a quest to eliminate added sodium in my food. So one of the things that I add to help with that is lemon juice or lime juice. It helps with the salty flavor. You can also add celery salt, which there is a video on this channel that I did I think last week regarding celery salt. But if you are somebody who has high blood pressure, you have anemia or you are addicted to salty foods, examine yourself and if you need to remove the salt from your diet, you might want to take some of the tips that I'm sharing in this video as far as how to replace the salty flavor in your food. Now there's nothing that's actually going to actually completely replace salt. But if you use salt substitutes, you can healthy salt substitutes I should say. You can eliminate that craving for salt. So I added the rest of the vegetable broth to make this into a liquidy soup I should say. You can use more or less vegetable broth. And the vegetable broth that I use is no sodium. The next thing you're going to do is cover it, bring it to a boil and let it simmer for about five minutes. And then we'll have one more ingredient to add and then we'll be finished. I've turned the fire off and now I'm going to add that last ingredient, which is greens. You can use whatever greens you like. I have spinach on hand, but you can use kale, chard, whatever kind of greens you want to use. And all you have to do, since the soup is very hot and simmering, is stir the greens into the soup and let them wilt and it's ready. You don't have to let it cook any longer. The heat from the soup is going to cook down the greens just a little bit. Now the soup is completely done. This healing white bean soup, all you have to do now is just serve it and eat it. Please tell me if this is the kind of soup you're going to add to your rotation. If you have suggestions on the types of recipes you'd like to see, please let me know in the comment section below. If you like this video, please like it and share it with a friend. If no one told you that they love you today, Chelsea in North Carolina loves you very much and I'll talk to you soon.