Last Updated on June 6, 2015 by Chef Mireille
Blogging Marathon #18
Theme: Kid’s Delight – Warming Foods
This can be made as a soup or not. When making it as a soup, simply add more water. Eventhough my theme is warming foods, since right now in NY, we are deep in the middle of summer with temperatures at 90 F, I could not fathom eating a bowl of hot soup. Therefore, I made the non-soup version of this dish.
Pasta Fagioli (pronounced pasta fa-zool) is one of the world famous, classic Italian vegetarian dishes, especially made famous by the Dean Martin song – That’s Amore
“when the stars make you drool just like a pasta fazool, that’s amore”
Ingredients:
1 cup white canneloni beans (aka white kidney beans), soaked overnight
1 bay leaf
2 cloves garlic
1 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
1 28 oz.can whole tomatoes, crushed by hand
2 zucchini, sliced into half moons
2 yellow summer squash, sliced into half moons
3 cups farfalle (aka bowtie) pasta
1/3 cup Pecorino Romano cheese
1/4 cup fresh parsley, chopped (or 1 tablespoon dried parsley)
2 teaspoons sugar
salt and pepper, to taste
Cook beans with bay leaf and garlic, until tender. Drain, discard garlic and bay leaf and reserve cooking liquid.
In a large pot, place tomatoes and crush by hand. (you can also use about a dozen fresh plum tomatoes) Add oregano, sugar, salt, pepper and thyme and 3 cups of the cooking liquid (adding plain water if you don’t have enough cooking liquid). Bring to a boil and simmer for 10 minutes. Add pasta and cook al dente, about 10 minutes.
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Add 1/2 cup water, vegetables and cooked beans. I used 1 monster sized zucchini and 2 yellow zucchini, but you can really use whatever vegetables you like – green beans, asparagus, broccoli, cauliflower are good options). Lower flame to medium-low, cover pot and cook for 5 minutes.
Add cheese and parsley. Stir to combine. Taste and adjust salt and pepper, if necessary.
Garnish with additional cheese or fresh parsley, if desired.
Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM#18
This warming entree is off to
Srivalli’s Kid’s Delight – Warming Foods, hosted by Pradnya , Show Me Your Hits hosted by Nalini and Priya’s Veggie/Fruit a Month – Zucchini hosted by Vardhini.
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Ehmm…next time when I have such themes, I will make it as per the location..:)..loved reading about this..
Yummy and irresistible dish..My kids will definitely love this.
Yummy! Looks delicious.
I think the soup too will taste equally good… But definitely in winters…Thanks fr sharing the recipe 🙂
Have a blessed day! 🙂
Sounds yumm…
Well, there are showers in the forecast, hope it cools down a little.
Pasta looks awesome!
Yumm.. Nice variation for the hearty soup. You are right, it has been a scorcher for the past 2 days and don't think the thunder storms helped it to cool. It got so humid and muggy. Hopefully tomorrow is a better day.
are you in NY also – didn't realize it – the heat is just unbearable – the humidity that came with the rain made it worse..UGH!!!
Here in MA too there was heavy downpour.. But it has brought down the temperatures a bit.. Feels a little better after the rain..
By the way, the pasta looks delicious and healthy..
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Pasta looks healthy and tasty. Thx for linking.
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Great filling pasta dish!
very interesting and colorful recipe…
pasta looks tasty !
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Lovely recipe Mireille. It makes it so much better that it can be served as soup for winter days. I'll be definitely trying it for my pasta fanatic daughter.
Its extremely windy here and just the description of the dish makes us want to try this right now. I would surely go in for the soupy version.Bookmarked …
good one Mireille. I see that you use a variety of cheese in your cooking 🙂
another of my fav dishes..love these pastas any time!!