This recipe shortens the cooking time of traditional red bean recipes by using pre-cooked red beans and pureeing half of them in the food processor. The food processor also shortens the time it takes to chop the vegetables that give New Orleans red beans their characteristic flavor.
This soup, alive with probiotics and enzymes from cultured dairy kefir, creates a lovely cooling meal alongside something slightly filling like crackers and cheese or a thin-crusted homemade pizza topped with summer vegetables.
