Black Bean Soup (Panera Bread Copycat) – Recipe Diaries (2024)

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Did Panera discontinue their black bean soup? ›

This vegan recipe is a copycat of the Panera Bread favorite and you can make it in your own kitchen in 30 minutes, or let it simmer all day in the Crockpot! Panera has discontinued this delicious vegan/vegetarian soup but you can still enjoy it with this homemade version!

In the course of his testing, Yonan found that soaking only cut down cooking time by 25 to 30%, and it also had real drawbacks. "You lose a lot of flavors when you soak them," Yonan says. "I've never had a pot of black beans as good soaking as when I don't soak them.

Blount Fine Foods, formerly Blount Seafood, is a prepared foods and soup manufacturer that produces wholesale frozen and fresh soups under the Blount brand as well as Panera Bread and Legal Sea Foods. Blount Fine Foods is headquartered in Fall River, Massachusetts with a production facility in Warren, Rhode Island.

As exciting as this reunion has been it pains me to find that Panera Bread has removed Baked Potato soup from their menu since the return of French Onion soup.

Nutrition aside, the other main consideration is texture. For soups, stews and anything else liquidy, feel free to use the whole can — just keep in mind that you'll be adding more liquid than if the recipe calls for drained and rinsed beans.

Canned beans are packed in a solution of water, salt, and starch. That solution can leave a glossy film on the beans, interfering with not only mouthfeel (slimy beans are a little off-putting), but also the ability of the beans to cling to other ingredients in the dish and absorb those flavors.

"Black beans cook so quickly soaking only saves 30 minutes or so. It also marginally helps keep them whole, but you're going to be pureeing some anyway. and the flavor is so much better.

Breads: The bread with the fewest calories is the whole grain miche with 130 per serving. Other good choices are the whole grain baguette or whole grain loaf with 140 calories (each option also has 3 grams of fiber per serving).

Black bean soup, homemade (1 cup) contains 35.2g total carbs, 21.6g net carbs, 1g fat, 10.8g protein, and 186 calories.

There are 232 calories in 2 cups of Black Bean Soup.

What is Panera's best selling soup? ›

According to the bakery-café chain, Broccoli Cheddar is America's favorite soup, with 49 states choosing it as their top pick. The outlier was Minnesota, which chose Cream of Chicken & Wild Rice as its top pick. The top three favorite soups nationwide are: Broccoli Cheddar Soup with 54.6M servings.

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Panera Bread discontinued its baked potato soup in 2019, but many customers are still sad over its loss. Although the dish was scrapped due to declining popularity, its biggest fans have not stopped talking about it online.

Published August 6, 2021 • Updated on August 6, 2021 at 4:24 pm. Panera Bread brand soups recalled after several consumers said they found pieces of gray nitrile glove in their food.

Faribault Foods, Inc. is voluntarily recalling 15 ounce cans of S&W Organic Black Beans, 15 ounce cans of O Organic Brand Black Beans and 15 ounce cans of O Organic Brand Chili Beans because the cans may have a compromised hermetic seal.

Besides the pepperoni, margherita, and cheese flatbread pizzas, the list also alleges items like turkey chili, Asian sesame salad with chicken, plain butter croissant, and the sesame seed bagel will be getting the ax, alongside Mediterranean bowls — which were also introduced in 2019 alongside flatbread pizzas.