Pasta e Fagioli

Name: Pasta e Fagioli
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 2 cans borlotti or cannellini beans (or 250g dried, soaked and cooked); 150g ditalini or mixed short pasta; 1 onion, 1 carrot and 1 celery stick, diced; 200g passata; 2 cloves garlic and a sprig of rosemary; A Parmigiano rind (optional); Olive oil

Pasta e fagioli/PAH-sta eh fah-JOH-lee/

Also known as: Pasta Fagioli, Pasta Fazool, Pasta and Bean Soup

Photo: Wikimedia Commons

About this dish

A thick, rustic soup of borlotti beans and small pasta in a garlicky tomato broth with olive oil.

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Ingredients

🫘2 cans borlotti or cannellini beans (or 250g dried, soaked and cooked)

🍝150g ditalini or mixed short pasta

🥕1 onion, 1 carrot and 1 celery stick, diced

🍅200g passata

🧄2 cloves garlic and a sprig of rosemary

🧀A Parmigiano rind (optional)

🫒Olive oil

Method

Serves 4

Soften the onion, carrot, celery and garlic in olive oil with the rosemary.

Add the beans, passata, cheese rind and about 1 litre of water or stock, and simmer for 20 minutes.

Mash or blend a third of the beans to thicken the soup.

Add the pasta and cook until tender, adding water if needed; it should be thick.

Rest for 5 minutes and serve with a drizzle of olive oil and black pepper.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Pasta e fagioli ('pasta fazool' in Neapolitan dialect) is peasant food cooked across Italy, each region with its own beans and pasta.

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