Italian · serves 2
Pasta e Fagioli
Pasta and beans in one pot. Peasant food that costs almost nothing and fills you completely.
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups small pasta
- 2 cans white beans or rajma
- 1 onion, 2 carrots, 2 celery sticks, finely diced
- 6 garlic cloves
- 1 can tomatoes
- 5 cups stock
- 1 sprig rosemary
- Parmesan rind if you have one
- Olive oil
Method
- Cook the diced onion, carrot and celery slowly in olive oil for 10 minutes. This base is doing all the work — don't rush it.
- Garlic and rosemary, 1 minute.
- Tomatoes, stock, half the beans, and the parmesan rind. Simmer 15 minutes.
- Blend the other half of the beans with a ladle of broth and stir it in. That's what makes it creamy without cream.
- Pasta cooked directly in the pot, 10 minutes, stirring so it doesn't stick.
- Thick enough that a spoon stands up. Olive oil and pepper on top.