A yearly Lima Bean Festival in nearby West Cape May honors the many growers there and showcases different recipes using their crops. This comforting chowder was a contest winner at the festival several years ago. —Kathleen Olsack, North Cape May, New Jersey

Lima Bean Soup

chicken broth

carrots,

potatoes,

sweet red peppers, chopped

onions,

celery ribs, thinly sliced

butter

marjoram

salt

pepper

oregano

half-and-half cream

bacon strips, cooked and crumbled

Good base soup, but needs more fiddling and seasoning. I feel like sautéing onions, garlic and celery first would add more flavor, as well as a bay leaf with fresh thyme and rosemary. I'll try it again, it came together pretty quickly after all the chopping! Crusty bread is a must.

My husband is a lima bean freak! He loves them!! I made this recipe, only change I did was used frozen lima beans. He said he would pay for this in a restaurant. HE LOVED IT!!

I used 3 cans of lima beans and full cream. This soup is addictive and delicious with garlic bread.

I have the original recipe for this Lima bean soup from the winner cape May Lima bean festival  I love this soup , I been making it for year and it’s always a big hit , on the original recipe was heavy cream, not half

I hate Lima beans, at least the way my grandma made them. This recipe is fantastic. I did tweak it a bit. I'm a frugal shopper and found dry limas 1/2 off. Could not resist bargain. Doubled recipe, used dry limas, more potatoes. Good 1st day, phenomenal after 2nd day, thickened and softened quite a bit. Didn't really need cream but that was the crowning glory. Red peppers added wonderful flavor. Would adding smoked sausage be overdoing it? Probably not. Thick, creamy, wonderful.

I thought this was easy to make. Sometimes I add more of the limas, carrots or pototoes just to be different and it still turns out really good. It's one of those soups to eat on a cool evening.

My family loves this soup! Perfect the way it is but  I bump-up the bacon to 5 or 6 strips for more flavor. Sometimes I add a bit of chopped chicken to make it heartier. I am trying it today with crumbled hot Italian sausage added, just to change it up a bit. So easy and so tasty! I love this soup. I would rate it one of my top favorites!

This is so scrumptious! I will definately be making this again. I didnt have Marjoram but I had Herbes de Provence which had marjoram, oregano, basil,thyme & rosemary. I used that instead of marjoram & oregano. It was creamy but not too thick. I also didnt find frozen lima beans but I had dried lima beans which I soaked overnight. I put everthing in my instant pot cooked on high pressure for 35 minutes. Added the half & half when done. So easy to make on the instant pot

Wasn't sure if I would like this since I'm not usually a big fan of limas, but this has a totally different taste than your usual lima bean side dish.  Glad I added this to my collection of soup recipes!  I put in extra carrots and peppers as well as a little garlic - made a great winter meal.  Thanks for this great recipe!

I make this soup frequently and it has become a family joke of sorts, because of all the people who have turned their nose at the description and title of the soup.  They ALL now request it before they visit.  My son-in-law threatens to not visit unless I make it and he was originally one of the strongest naysayers!  Even I was skeptical at first and it is now one of my all-time favorites!

My husband and I loved this soup! I did do a little tweaking because of what I had on hand. I used a bag of dried baby lima beans for the first time ever....I most usually buy frozen lima beans (fork hook or baby limas), as I do not like canned. I did cook the dried baby lima beans for a while before adding the other ingredients  to soften them up first. And I did not have any sweet red peppers on hand but I had a seasoning jar of dried chopped sweet red and green peppers so I added some of that. It turned out great! Very thick and flavorful.  Next time I'll make it with frozen limas and fresh sweet red peppers. And as others have commented on the difference of lima beans....the dried baby limas that I used tasted more like butter beans in my personal opinion. Lima beans have a different taste I think and are supposed to be green. That may not be correct, just commenting on what I was brought up on. Definitely will make again!

Amazing! I'm extremely picky and prefer bland food, so I left out several ingredients and seasonings, but I literally cannot get enough of it! Next time I'll add the beans much later (they kind of dissolved after being cooked for so long).

It was delicious and easy to make:)  Great food for a snowy day.

This is a wonderfully flavorful soup, and I even forgot to add the bacon.  I also used home-cooked butter beans instead of limas to save on sodium.

Very good, and different.  Used a pound bag of frozen baby limas and sliced in some high end smoked sausage in bite sized slices-- put all in electric pressure cooker on low pressure for 14 minutes, natural pressure release.  Added cream after cooking and it was perfect.

This soup was fantastic.  I did not add the cream or bacon.  I did add turkey kielbasa cut up and some garlic.  Other wise everything was the same.

I used a one pound bag of frozen lima beans and used 5 strips of bacon. I liked the soup because it was flavorful and filling and, best of all, low in calories, fat and carbs. While it was tasty I don't think my husband is going to be a fan of this recipe. I did use fat free half-and-half; not sure whether that negatively impacted the overall taste. Perhaps sliced kielbasa and garlic, as one other reviewer added, would give this more of a  "Wow" factor. It's a keeper of a recipe because it's so healthy  but it isn't at the top of our list of favorite soups.

Delicious!  This will definitely be part of our soup rotation.

I made this for my kids because some love lima beans and one does not. Everyone loved it and the one who does not like lima beans asked for seconds! It was a household pleaser.....they asked for it again 7 days later.  I added some  ham and garlic to mine. Next I am going to put some polish sausage. Awesome! Definatley, even better the next day.

Question,  are these the green lima beans or the brown lima beans (known in the south as "butter beans").  Not quite sure looking at the picture.  Thanks, will rate again later after I make, but for now looks like a 5 star recipe to me.

lima bean soup

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 30 minutes

Total: 40 minutes

Servings: 7.5

Author : Taste of Home

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