World's Best Bean Soup

prep time:: null Soak beans overnight. Prep time to cook is about 10 minutes
total time:: 2 hr

Recipe for packages of beans and recipe to cook them.

ingredients

Mix contains one pound of each of dried: navy beans, Great Northern beans, pinto beans, soybeans, red beans, yellow split peas, green split peas, black-eyed peas, lentils, large limas, baby limas, barley pearls.
1 pkg. World’s Best Bean Soup Mix
2 quarts water
1 1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. red & black pepper
1 large onion - sliced
1 16 oz. can tomatoes, plus extra fresh tomatoes - chopped (or use 2 cans of tomatoes)
1 ham hock
1 tsp. green chilies
1 clove garlic - cut in half
1 clove garlic - minced
3 T. lemon juice
1 T. bacon grease
1 pkg. andouille sausage (or other sausage or rotisserie chicken)

1
Rinse the soup mix and place in a Dutch oven. Add halved garlic. Cover with water and soak overnight.
2
Drain the beans; remove garlic halves. Add ham hock, bacon grease, salt and pepper. Cover and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, add the minced garlic and simmer 1 1/2 hours or until the beans are tender. Remove the ham hock, add the remaining ingredients. Simmer for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.