Soup For One

I really love soup but I don't like making a big pot of it.  Having the same soup five days in a row does not appeal to me.  I bought one of these pressure cookers and it makes making soup for one SO easy and quick.:  LINK 

While cooking the above ingredients soak your dry beans.  I will put a scoop of beans in a cup every night to soak for the next day (I think beans are important for health).  Sometimes I forget so I do a quick soak.  Boil some water, put in dry beans, remove from heat, let sit for an hour, drain and lastly rinse.

OK.  Beans soaked.  Spices simmered and also drained.  Put the above ingredients and the below ingredients back into the pressure cooker and cook for 5 more minutes after bringing up to pressure.

In real human time I'd say simmer for for about 30 minutes.  Great Northern beans cook fairly quickly.  In pressure cooker time it's really only five minutes.  I bring it up to pressure, set timer for 5, then turn off the heat.  20 minutes after that you open the pan and viola!

Just another picture of my ingredients.  I'm really loving parsnips lately.   

Isn't it beautiful?  It may seem like a lot of work for one bowl of soup, but it really wasn't.  Once the broth was done and the beans soaked I only had the stove on for ten minutes.  I'm glad I experimented with star anise some more.  I'm learning less is more with that ingredient.  This soup was so flavorful I didn't have to add any more salt.  The parsnips are sweet enough to play off the spiciness of the Sarancha.  

In case anybody is wondering this is 6 Weight Watchers points as done by their current recipe builder.