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    Home » Recipes » Soup and Stews

    Taco Soup with Black Beans

    Published: Feb 26, 2020 · Modified: Jul 7, 2020 by Adrianne

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    Taco Soup with text overlay

    Taco Soup with black beans is a simple soup recipe done in 20 minutes on the stove top. This freezer friendly quick and easy recipe is perfect for weeknights, healthy with the addition of the black beans and tastes delicious! Black bean taco soup is a dish the whole family will love!

    Taco Soup with Black Beans in a pale blue bowl with the same color saucer underneath

    If Mexican recipes are your thing, you might also like the Mexican Lime Chicken Thighs or Mexican Fries recipes.

    Or go for similar texture with different flavours in my Chipolatas with Baked Beans or Easy Chunky Beef Stew.

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    • 🤍 Recipe Highlights
    • 🥗 Ingredients
    • Homemade Taco Seasoning for Ground Beef
    • 🍳 Instructions  
    • 🍜 How to Make Taco Soup with Black Beans
    • 🥢 Spicy Taco Soup
    • 💡 Tasty Tips
    • 🤓 Frequently Asked Questions
    • 😍 More Easy Dinner Recipes
    • 📖 Recipe
    I have worked with my friends over at Everten to share this recipe with you. You can purchase both the Staub Round Cocotte and the beautiful Ecology Ottawa Lichen Dinner Set from their site.
    Taco Soup with black beans in pale blue bowls with the larger cast iron pot in the background

    🤍 Recipe Highlights

    The things that you will come to know and love about this recipe as summarised in the points below:

    • Fully packed with flavour: this recipe has texture, flavour and taste. It is a fully loaded soup that will tick all of you boxes.
    • Winter comfort food: belly warming, heart warming and tasty, you will be licking your lips whilst devouring a bowl of this soup.
    • Have a little fun with the garnish for this recipe. Try coriander, avocado, even jalapenos! 

    🥗 Ingredients

    The ingredients that you need to make this recipe as set out and labelled in the photo below. Find the exact measurements in the printable recipe card.

    Ingredients for Black Bean Taco Soup with text labels

    As you can see, the recipe calls for:

    • Beef mince: this is the same thing as ground beef. It is freezer friendly, budget friendly and highly versatile.
    • Black beans: commonly found in Mexican recipes, these are also budget friendly, add protein and can be stored in the pantry for grabbing as needed.
    • Corn: another tinned ingredient in the recipe that can be kept in the pantry till needed. Corn is inexpensive and has great texture.
    • 4 Bean Mix: these beans add loads of texture and variety to the dish. We drain and rinse them prior to using.
    • Passata: a thick tomato sauce ingredient, commonly found in Italian dishes. It has a smooth texture and thickish consistency.
    • Crushed tomatoes: grab the plain, unseasoned variety.
    • Minced garlic: from a jar is fine and makes life easy for this ingredient. You could also use freshly chopped garlic cloves.
    • Dried onion: save time and your tears by using this instead of fresh onion. The taste is the same and the time involved is much less than peeling and slicing an onion.
    • Oregano: we add a touch of this dried herb for flavour in the recipe.

    Homemade Taco Seasoning for Ground Beef

    The dried spices that you seen in the photo above are used to make our taco seasoning. We simply stir these together and pour over the meat once it is cooked! 

    Blue cast iron pot from side with spoon of soup above

    This soup recipe has lots of colour texture and taste, the best thing though is how easy it is to make! 

    🍳 Instructions  

    The steps to make this recipe are outlined in the photos below. We start by combining the seasoning.

    Taco Soup method with text overlay

    We start by  combining our spices to make our taco seasoning. If you prefer to use a store bought 'taco seasoning' mix, that is fine, it will save a little bit of time. But making your own is also great as it allows you to see exactly what goes into it.  

    1. Combine dried onion, oregano, paprika, cumin in a small glass or jar (Photos 1-4)
    Method for black bean taco soup with text overlay
    • Add the garlic powder and stir to combine (Photos 5-6)
    • Add olive oil to your pan, then add beef mince (Photos 7-8)

    🍜 How to Make Taco Soup with Black Beans

    The temperature for browning the mince beef is medium. It will only take 3 - 5  mins. The goal being to cook it until all of the pink mince has changed colour as it will then be cooked through. 

    Process for making taco soup with text overlay
    • Season the mince by adding salt, pepper, dried onion and garlic (Photos 9-12) 
    • Once the mince is browned, add the taco seasoning  (Photos 13-14)
    • Then pour in the tomatoes and passata (Photos 15-16)

    We are putting lots of flavour into our mince and then we start to add our textures. If you like you can substitute beef stock for the water as it will create a further depth of flavour in the recipe. 

    Instructions for making taco soup with text overlay
    • Add the water  (Photo 17)
    • Then black beans and 4 bean mix (Photo 18)
    • Add the corn and stir to combine (Photo 19)
    • Place the lid on and allow the dish to simmer (Photo 20)
    Method for stove top taco soup with text labels
    • Remove the lid and stir your soup  (Photo 21)
    • Spoon in cherry tomatoes that are cut in 2 (Photo 22)
    • Sprinkle the coriander on top (Photo 23)
    • Get ready to serve your soup (Photo 24)

    🥢 Spicy Taco Soup

    If you want to add an extra kick of chilli to your soup, you can do that by slicing some jalapenos and sprinkling them on top of the coriander. Alternatively add 1 teaspoon chilli flakes to your homemade taco seasoning. 

    Taco Soup in a large blue cast iron pot with wooden spoon handle sticking out in the bottom right

    💡 Tasty Tips

    These additional tips are so that you can master this recipe from the 1st time you make it:

    • Use a wooden spoon to stir as it won't scratch your cast iron pot
    • The mince will brown very quickly, stir it as you go to break into small pieces
    • ½ of the dried onion in the recipe is for the taco seasoning and ½ to season the mince
    • For an extra depth of flavour use beef stock instead of the water 
    • Rinse your beans and corn at the start, so you can simply add them in 
    • If the dinner is ready but the family is not, replace the lid and leave the stove on a low heat
    • Serve with lime wedges, jalapenos and avocado! 

    This Taco Soup is so simple and easy and you can't go wrong with the recipe! Toast some tortillas with a little salt for dipping and crunch! 

    🤓 Frequently Asked Questions

    What do you eat with Taco Soup?

    There are so many delicious pairings that work well with Taco Soup. Some ideas that you might like to try are:

    • Sour cream
    • Low fat Greek yoghurt
    • Fresh lime wedges 
    • Coriander
    • Jalapenos 
    • Fresh green chilli
    Spoon holding taco soup above a cast iron pot

    To freeze this recipe, you can portion it out into zip lock bags and lay then flat in your freezer! This will save a lot of room and they defrost very easily in the fridge! 

    Spoon holding black bean taco soup above a pale blue serving bowl

    😍 More Easy Dinner Recipes

    What’s for dinner? How about juicy succulent chicken recipes with winning sides?

    • Honey Mustard Chicken Thighs, with a side of Skin on Roast Potatoes.
    • Slow Cooker Pumpkin Soup
    • Lamb Osso Bucco
    • Slow Cooker Lamb Stew
    • Blue Cheese Mac and Cheese
    • Slow Cooker Mushroom Soup
    • Turkey Chilli Con Carne
    • Tomato Mac and Cheese
    • Moroccan Lamb Couscous 
    • Chicken Noodle Stir Fry 

    Find all of my dinner recipes in the one spot.

    I've got you sorted for dinner, for flavour, on time and you have got this taco soup SORTED and on your table!  

    Adrianne

    📖 Recipe

    Taco Soup in a large blue cast iron pot with wooden spoon handle sticking out in the bottom right

    Taco Soup with Black Beans

    Taco Soup with Black Beans is an easy soup recipe done in 20 minutes on the stove top. This freezer friendly, quick recipe is perfect for weeknights! 
    5 from 9 votes
    Print Rate
    Prep Time: 5 minutes minutes
    Cook Time: 15 minutes minutes
    Total Time: 20 minutes minutes
    Servings: 8
    Calories: 475kcal
    Author: Adrianne
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    Equipment

    • 1 Cast iron pot (Staub Cocotte) Shown in photo is 28cm, 6.7l
    • 1 Wooden spoon

    Ingredients

    • 500 grams beef mince Note 1
    • 1 tablespoon olive oil
    • 800 grams black beans drained and rinsed
    • 400 grams 4 bean mix drained and rinsed
    • 400 grams corn kernels drained and rinsed
    • 400 grams crushed tomatoes Note 2
    • 700 grams passata
    • 250 grams cherry tomatoes Note 3
    • 2 cups water
    • salt and pepper to taste
    • 1 tbs cumin
    • 1 teaspoon paprika
    • 1 tablespoon dried onion for beef mince Note 4
    • 1 teaspoon minced garlic
    • 1 tablespoon dried onion for taco seasoning
    • 1 teaspoon oregano
    • ½ tablespoon garlic powder Note 5
    • avocado to serve
    • coriander to serve

    Instructions

    • Turn the stove on to a medium heat.
    • Add olive oil, beef mince, crushed garlic, dried onion, salt and pepper to your cast iron pot. (Staub cocotte)
    • Brown off the beef mince which will take 3-4 mins
    • Pour taco seasoning mix over browned beef mince
    • Pour in crushed tomatoes, passata, water, black beans and 4 bean mix and once soup starts bubbling on the outside edge, place lid on and simmer (low heat for 10 mins)
    • Remove lid, use a spoon to transfer cherry tomatoes to the top of the soup, stir 1-2 time with a wooden spoon and then turn off the heat.
    • Serve with coriander, avocado, fresh limes and toasted tortilla wedges

    Notes

    • Note 1 In Australia we call this beef mince, in the USA it is known as ground beef. It is the same thing. You can use pork, chicken or turkey mince if you prefer. 
    • Note 2 If you can't find crushed tomatoes, go for the diced version instead. Try to get a plain tin though with no additional herbs. That way you know exactly what is going into your dish. 
    • Note 3 I love adding these to this recipe as they are fresh and bring that quality to the recipe. The texture, taste and freshness is reminiscent of traditional 'tacos!'. 
    • Note 4 we use some of our dried onion for seasoning the beef mince and some in the taco seasoning. There is 2 shown in the ingredients pic and that is for their 2 uses. 
    • Note 5 If you want to make this recipe even more easy than it is, you can use a packet of taco seasoning. Whatever suits you. It is easy to combine the spices for the homemade taco seasoning but you might be tired/lack energy and want to grab that so you don't have to think about which spices you need, that is totally fine!! 

    Nutrition

    Calories: 475kcal | Carbohydrates: 59g | Protein: 28g | Fat: 16g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Cholesterol: 44mg | Sodium: 236mg | Potassium: 1438mg | Fiber: 17g | Sugar: 9g | Vitamin A: 862IU | Vitamin C: 23mg | Calcium: 107mg | Iron: 8mg
    Course Dinner
    Cuisine Western
    Keyword soup
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    1. Katie says

      February 29, 2020 at 6:23 am

      5 stars
      Made it for the family and it was a hit!

      Reply
      • Adrianne says

        April 07, 2020 at 7:52 pm

        That is great to hear, thanks Katie!

    2. mimi rippee says

      March 02, 2020 at 3:34 pm

      Taco Soup! Some of my most favorite flavors. I really like this idea. And, I love the toppings. Those are so much fun!

      Reply
      • Adrianne says

        March 02, 2020 at 4:51 pm

        Thanks Mimi! Yes, loaded taco toppings are the best, cheers for your feedback.

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