{"id":195,"date":"2026-02-22T19:30:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T19:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/fassoulada-greek-bean-soup"},"modified":"2026-02-22T19:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T19:30:25","slug":"fassoulada-greek-bean-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/soup\/blog\/2026\/02\/22\/fassoulada-greek-bean-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"Fassoulada (Greek Bean Soup)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Ingredients<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>1 pound dried navy beans<br \/>\n2 each onions, chopped<br \/>\n2 each celery stalks with leaves chopped<br \/>\n2 each carrots, scraped and diced<br \/>\n4 each sprigs parsley, chopped<br \/>\n1 C.(s) chopped, drained tomatoes<br \/>\n1 each bay leaf<br \/>\n2 each sprigs fresh mint or thyme<br \/>\nsalt and freshly ground pepper<br \/>\n1\/3 C.(s) olive oil<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Cooking Instructions<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Wash beans and soak overnight in cold water. The next day, in a soup kettle, bring the  beans to a boil in the soaking water. Skim off the foam, then add the remaining  ingredients, cover, and simmer gently until the beans are tender, about 3 hours. Serve  hot.  Note: less frequently, the soup is pureed thorough a sieve. Also, you may add the herbs  during the last hour or so of cooking, if you wish.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;&quot;Then God said, &quot;Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;&quot; (Genesis 1:29)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soup<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/soup\/blog\/2026\/02\/22\/fassoulada-greek-bean-soup\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soup"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/soup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/soup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/soup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/soup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/soup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/soup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/soup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/soup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/soup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}