This week for the fortieth recipe I've made for Thirty Minute Thursdays, cooking our way through Giuliano Hazan's Thirty Minute Pasta book, I made Pasta e Fagioli (Bean and Pasta Soup) on page 30.
The ingredient list: potato, onion, carrot, celery, garlic, cannellini beans, tomatoes, beef bouillon cube, bay leaf, pasta, parsley, Parmigiano Reggiano, salt, and freshly ground black pepper.
There are probably millions of recipes for pasta and bean soup...this is a very nice one. The flavors are complementary (a nice mix of vegetables), the way the beans and potato gets muddled makes the soup have a creamy texture without adding cream, it all feels very substantial, a small bowl feels like a complete meal. It makes a huge amount, I know because I made half a batch and that was a huge amount. I will have soup for lunch for a week from this, which is a good thing as I really liked the soup. Definitely I would make this variation again.
