Bean Soup with Dulse

 

We got home late tonight, but I wanted something to eat and to use up the leftover navy beans I hadn't used in the baked beans, so I made A BEAN SOUP WITH DULSE.

Ingredients

1 large — chopped onion

2 Tblsp. — olive oil

1 bulb — chopped garlic

1/2 tsp each — cumin seeds and turmeric

1/2 — crumbled dry red pepper (or 1/4 tsp red pepper flakes)

1/2 tsp horseradish powder or fresh horseradish

1 bag — mixed frozen vegetables (corn, green beans, peas, and carrots)

4 cups — cooked navy beans (or 3 cans beans)

4 cups — water (use leftover potato-cooking water if you have it)

1/4 cup — nutritional yeast flakes

1/4 cup — dulse flakes

2 Tblsp. — miso, after cooking, mixed with a little water

1 tsp — tamari, at end

Juice of 1 squeezed lemon, before serving

Method

Saute one large chopped onion in a couple of tablespoons of olive oil, adding in a bulb of chopped garlic, half a teaspoon each of cumin seeds and turmeric, and half of a crumbled red pepper, or a quarter teaspoon red pepper. I also added half a teaspoon of horseradish powder because I saw it and had forgotten I had it.

I had just gone shopping and had a bag of frozen mixed organic vegetables — corn, green beans, peas, and carrots — so I threw them in, along with approximately four cups of cooked navy beans, which would be about three cans worth of beans. I also added in about four cups of water and some potato water I had saved. Heat all that up. Add in a quarter cup of nutritional yeast and a quarter cup of dulse flakes if you have some on hand. 

 

An Aside About Dulse, Iodine and Radiation Poisoning

Dulse is a reddish pleasant-tasting seaweed that contains iodine, just in case you think you need it, say, to protect your thyroid from a radiation plume. Dulse has more iodine than iodized table salt — a teaspoon of dulse contains approximately 300-600mcg of iodine, more than any other sea vegetable. 

 

If your thyroid has already absorbed non-radioactive iodine, it will not absorb as much radioactive iodine — that is why one would take one 100mg potassium iodide tablet in the event of actual high-level radiation exposure, 48 hours ahead or 8 hours afterward if advised to do so. If you live inland, away from the sea, you are more likely to be iodine-deficient. 150mcg of iodine a day is normally recommended for an adult.

At the End

After cooking the soup for half an hour or so, I added in two tablespoons of chickpea miso mixed in some water, along with a teaspoon of tamari, and one squeezed lemon.

Serve with bread. Mine was sourdough.