PASTA and BEAN SOUP
PASTA and BEAN SOUP

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, pasta and bean soup. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Season to taste with salt and pepper. Discard bay leaves, stir in parsley and serve, drizzling each serving with extra-virgin olive oil at the table. I did notice on leftovers for the next day that the spinach and pasta tended to soak up a lot of the stock so had to add more. Cooking the pasta separately from the soup helps the pasta maintain its texture.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have pasta and bean soup using 14 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make PASTA and BEAN SOUP:
  1. Get 300 grams dried cannellini beans, soaked in cold water overnight or PESELLI beans
  2. Get 1 tbsp salt
  3. Make ready 3 tbsps. olive oil
  4. Take 1 medium onion, finely chopped
  5. Prepare 2 clove garlic, finely chopped
  6. Prepare 2 bay leaves
  7. Take 200 grams pancetta, diced
  8. Take 1 1/4 liter chicken or vegetable stock
  9. Make ready 1 juice of 1/2 lemon
  10. Get 200 grams small pasta
  11. Take 1/4 cup chopped flat-leaf parsley
  12. Prepare 1 salt and freshly ground pepper
  13. Take 1 extra-virgin olive oil, to serve
  14. Take 1 cup tomatoe sauce

The recipe will make enough to feed a large family, or if not feeding a large family you will have leftovers to easily reheat and enjoy. People from Tuscany love their beans! And here Giovanna shares her recipe using special red beans called 'rossi di Lucca' with home made pasta. When it's cold and damp outside, I love to have a hearty bowl of Pasta e Fagioli (pasta and dried bean soup).

Instructions to make PASTA and BEAN SOUP:
  1. When you decided to have cannellini beans for this soup, bring a large saucepan of water to a boil. Add dried cannellini, decrease the heat abd gently simmer. Cook for 30 minutes. Add salt and cook for further 30 minutes, until beans are al dente. Drain and set aside.
  2. Heat the oil in a large saucepan over low-medium heat. Add the onion, garlic and bay leaves and saute until softened. Add the pancetta and cook for a further 3-5 minutes, until golden.
  3. Add the beans (i prefer peselli), stock, tomstoe sauce and lemon juice and bring to a boil. Add the pasta and cook for 10 minutes, until al dente. Stir in the parsley and season with salt and pepper
  4. Serves 6

And here Giovanna shares her recipe using special red beans called 'rossi di Lucca' with home made pasta. When it's cold and damp outside, I love to have a hearty bowl of Pasta e Fagioli (pasta and dried bean soup). There are many ways to make it in Italy. It's one of those recipes that everyone makes slightly differently and are sure that their way is the right way to do it! This wholesome soup goes well with simple bread or garlic bread and a little bit of cheese.

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