Ok, ladies I am originally from Cuba, so we do eat a lot of bean soup, and Garbanzo beans is one of them, I have two recepies, the one of course loaded with fat (ham hocks, pigs feet, smoked ham etc) and recently making the healthy way, no fats, and still taste really good, my family loves them, a great choice for cold winter nights. We eat it like a regular soup or on top of white rice.
1 lb of dry garbanzo beans
1 onion chopped up small
1 green pepper choped up small
1 16 oz can of tomatoes or stewed tomatoes (check sodium)
2 small packets of Sasoon
2 Ham bullion cubes (check sodium also)
3 or 4 cloves of garlic marshed
2 large potatoes
Salt and Pepper to taste
Put dry beans in the crock pot and give it a quick rinse, then add all the ingredients except the potatoes and fill the pot with water, turn crock pot on high for like Mal said with her beans about 8 hrs or so, if you work when you come home they will be done, mix them and squeeze some beans against the pot to break up some of them and make the soup a little thicker then all you have to do is peel the potatoes cut them in small cubes and add them to the pot and just let it simmer until potatoes are done. In my family we also add small pieces of pumpkin in it at the same time as the potatoes, but not many people like the pumpkin in it, we do love it. Enjoy!!!.
PS; I you want you can also put them to soak from the night before as they are harder than the regular beans like Mal said
