Black Bean Soup

Columbia Restaurant Recipe
Ingredients

1 pound black beans
3 quarts water
1 ounce olive oil
½ ounce garlic
1 ½ ounce chopped onion
1 ounce green pepper
½ ounce salt
1/8 teaspoon cumin
¼ teaspoon oregano
¼ ounce sugar
¼ teaspoon pepper

Directions

1. Soak beans in water overnight in a 4-quart pot. Bring beans to a boil in the pot, using the same liquid that beans were soaked with and then simmer.
2. Heat oil and then brown garlic in a pan. Puree onion and peppers, then add puree mixture to oil and garlic in pan, sauté for 4 minutes. Then add mixture to the beans simmering in the pot.
   Add salt, cumin, oregano, sugar and pepper to the mixture in pot. Stir, simmer until beans are tender.