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Traditional bean soup with pinched noodles, served with smoked meat stock
Rich and warming bean soup filled with smoked meat, vegetables, and homemade pinched noodles.

Hearty bean soup with pinched noodles

Author: Flavelo
Recipes Soups
Bean soup is a dish of patience. The hard skin and dense interior of dry beans can only be broken by slow, gentle cooking (rehydration). The soup's thickness comes from starch boiling out of the beans and the 'csipetke' (pinched noodles), a rustic, hard pasta designed to remain chewy even in thick broth.
🕒 Prep Time 30 mins
🍳 Cook Time 1 hr 30 mins
⌛ Total Time 2 hrs
🍽️ Servings 5 servings
🔥 Calories 450 kcal
🌍 Cuisine Hungarian

Ingredients

Equipment Needed

  • Large pot (beans increase in volume!)
  • Bowl for kneading noodles

Allergen Information

⚠️ Cereals containing gluten
⚠️ Eggs

Instructions

1 ✓

Drain the soaked beans, put on to boil with fresh water and bay leaves. Do not salt!

Tip: During soaking, beans absorb water, cooking faster and improving digestibility (less bloating).
2 ✓

While beans cook, make the base: sauté chopped onion and garlic in fat. Remove from heat, stir in paprika.

Tip: The base of Hungarian soups is paprika onion, providing flavour and colour.
3 ✓

When beans are half-soft (approx. 40-50 mins), add sliced carrots, the paprika base, sausage, and salt now.

Tip: Carrots need less time than beans. Salting is safe now.
4 ✓

Make the noodles: knead egg with enough flour (approx. 100g) to get a very hard dough. Pinch off tiny pieces.

Tip: Hard dough doesn't disintegrate in the soup but remains pleasantly chewy (al dente).
5 ✓

When beans and veg are soft, drop in the noodles and cook 5-10 minutes more until they float to the surface.

Tip: Ready when the middle of the noodle isn't raw.

Recipe FAQ

Why did the beans stay hard?
You salted too early, or added acidic medium (e.g. tomato, vinegar) at the start. Acid and salt toughen bean skins and prevent softening.
Why did the noodles fall apart?
The dough was too soft (too little flour), or you cooked them too long. Pinched noodles must be hard when raw.

Ingredients

  • 250 g Dried haricot beans (soaked overnight)
  • 2 pcs Carrots
  • 1 pc Parsley root (or Parsnip)
  • 1 head Onion
  • 2 cloves Garlic
  • 2 pcs Bay leaves
  • 1 tsp Salt
  • 1 tsp Paprika
  • 150 g Smoked sausage
  • 2 tbsp Oil or Lard
  • 1.5 l Water (or smoked stock)
  • 1 pc Egg (for noodles)
  • 100 g Plain flour (for noodles)