Roasted Garlic, Bacon, White Bean Soup

This creamy Roasted Garlic, Bacon, White Bean Soup is so flavourful and simple to make with only 6 ingredients. It’s freezer friendly, meal prep friendly, and is perfect to cozy up to!

📝 Ingredients

• 3 heads garlic
• 1 1/2 tbsp olive
• 3 slices bacon (cut into 1-2 inches pieces, plus an optional extra slice to crisp up as garnish)
• 1 tbsp butter (unsalted)
• 1 sweet onion (sliced)
• 3 cups white beans (approximately 2 cans, drained)
• 5 cups vegetable stock
• optional: salt to taste

👨‍🍳 Instructions

1. 1Heat your oven to 400F.
2. 2Cut off the tops of the garlic bulb, drizzle a bit of olive oil on top, and wrap it up in tin foil. Roast in the oven for 40-60 minutes.
3. 3When cool to touch, remove the garlic cloves from the skin and set aside.
4. 4In a heavy bottomed pot over medium heat, add in your bacon pieces and saute them for 2-3 minutes.
5. 5Add in butter and then onions and saute until softened.
6. 6Add in a splash of the vegetable stock to deglaze the pan before adding in the roasted garlic cloves, white beans, and the vegetable stock. Stir and bring it to a boil before lowering the heat to a simmer for 15-20 minutes.
7. 7Using an immersion blender or regular blender, blend the soup until it is smooth (I used my Vitamix). Be sure you don’t overfill your blender and remove the centre cap from the lid of your blender and cover with a paper towel to allow the heat to escape while blending.
8. 8Serve with some crispy bacon as garnish if desire and enjoy immediately or pack into airtight containers to meal prep for the week.