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Watermelon Bean Soup

List of Ingredients




Watermelon Bean Soup

Servings: n/a
Classification: Unknown
Nation/Tribe: Ute (from IgmuSapa38@aol.com via NA Message Board 2)

Ingredients

1/2 cup watermelon seeds
1 cup dried beans (we use pinto)
1/2 tablespoon salt
3 cups boiling water

Directions

1) Spread dry watermelon seeds on a cookie sheet and roast
them in a 300º oven for ten or twelve minutes. They should be
good and crisp when done. Stir occasionally to keep seeds
from burning.

2) When the seeds have cooled, grind them into a fine meal.

3) Pour seed meal into a sieve with a fine mesh, and place the
sieve over a large bowl. Pour the boiling water over the meal
until most of the meal is washed from the hulls. Save the liquid
to pour on the beans.

4) Sort and wash the beans and put them in a pot or crockpot.
Add the retained liquid from the seed meal and cover. Cook
until the beans are done.In the past, this was used when there
wasn't much meat around. now people sometimes put meat in
it. I have had it with mutton, beef, elk, and venison. But it really
is good without meat, so give it a try this way first.

Hope that those of you that try this enjoy both your
watermelon, and your watermelon beans!


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