This easy slow cooker tomato and bean soup is a delicious dump-and-run crock pot recipe. Yes, it takes hours, and for all that time, all you do is drink in the delicious aroma and put your feet up!
Course Lunch, Main Course, Soup
Cuisine European
Diet Vegan, Vegetarian
Keyword bean soup crock pot, slow cooker bean soup, tomato and bean soup, tomato and white bean soup
Place the beans in a large bowl and cover them with around 1 litre (1 quart) of water, and allow them to sit for at least 3 hours, 8-12 hours is better.
Chop the onion in half, peel it and cut it into a 2-3mm (⅛") dice.
Cut the carrot into a 2-3mm (⅛") dice.
Cut the celery into a 2-3mm (⅛") dice.
Peel the garlic and dice it as finely as you can.
Cut the sundried tomatoes into a 5-6mm (¼") dice.
Throw the onions, carrot, celery, sundried tomatoes, garlic, vegetable stock, oregano and bay leaf into a 3-4 litre slow cooker and stir.
Drain the beans and add them to the slow cooker. Add the lid and cook on low for 7 hours.
After 7 hours, pour in the tomato passata, balsamic vinegar and brown sugar and stir, return the lid and cook for a final hour.