Bean Soup

Ingredients

• 500 g dry red kidney beans
• 1 dash pepper
• 1 dash salt
• 1 beef stock cube
• 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
• 25 g gravy powder
• 1 cup onion, chopped
• 65 g tomato paste
• 1 kg beef chuck
• 3 L water

Directions

1. Soak dry beans overnight in cold water. Drain the following morning and put in a large pot. Add 2 litres of the boiling water, place lid on top and cook until soft.
2. Cook the meat and onion with the other 1 litre boiling water in a pressure cooker (if you have one) until soft. Remove bones and cut meat in pieces.
3. Add the meat, meat sauce and beef cube to the beans.
4. Mix tomato paste, gravy powder and Worcestershire sauce. Add to the soup.
5. Add salt and pepper to taste and let it cook through. Serve hot.