Sausage and Black Bean Stew

This is a nice thick stew for a cold winter day. It has definitely started to get really cold around here finally.

Ingredients: (Serves 6)

3 15oz Cans of Black Beans, drained and rinsed

14 1/2oz Can of Fat-free Chicken Broth

1c Celery

3 Cloves of Garlic, minced

1 1/2 tsp Dried Oregano

3/4 tsp Ground Coriander

1/2 tsp Ground Cumin

1/4 tsp Ground Red Pepper (not Cayenne)

1 lb Link Turkey Sausage, thinly sliced and cooked

Slice celery

Mix all of the ingredients except the sausage in the slow cooker.

Cook on Low for 5-7 hours

Remove 1 1/2 cups of the bean mixture and puree in a blender

Stir the puree back into the slow cooker

Slice the sausage. When I made the recipe I missed the word "Cooked". Oops. So we ended up putting the raw sausage in the slow cooker. We just had to cook it a lot longer. (1 hour)

Cook sausage and stew for 30 minutes on Low.

Dinner is served. It was pretty good. It was a little spicy for our tastes. I realized today that the red pepper I used said "Cayenne" in very small text. Oops. Haha

Nutrition:

292 Calories

8g Fat

10g Fiber

29g Protein

40g Carbs

8 WW Points Plus

Recipe from Fix-It and Forget-It Lightly