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Pasta e Fagioli Recipe
Nonna would be proud of you for making this delicious pasta e fagioli! It's an easy, quick, and nutrient-packed dish that the whole family will love.
Prep Time
40 mins
Cook Time
40 mins
Total Time
45 mins
Servings: 6
Course:
Main Course
Cuisine:
Italian
Ingredients
- water
- Fresh beans
- 1 egg
- 300 grams plain flour 10.6oz
- 1 Bottle homemade tomato sauce Or store bought
- ¼ onion
- ½ carrot
- fresh basil As much as you prefer
- 400 grams beans 14.1oz
- 1 celery stalk trimmed
- extra virgin olive oil EVOO
- 400 grams fresh pasta 14.1oz. Or dry pasta
- salt As much as required
Instructions
- Rinse the beans before adding them to a pot with cold water.
- Boil the beans for 20 minutes or until soft.
- To get started on the sauce first peel your carrot. Then chop the onion, carrot, and celery using a sharp knife.
- Preheat some extra virgin olive oil in a large pot on medium heat.
- Next add the onion and carrots and sauté until they're softened.
- Pour passata into your sofrito and add a generous amount of salt and finally celery.
- Boil the sauce for 20 minutes then add some fresh basil right at the end.
- Once the sauce is finished, add a portion to the beans. The beans will absorb all the flavor.
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To make fresh pasta:
- Create a well with your flour, take one egg and crack it into the well then beat and combine it in with your flour.
- Bring this together so that you start to create a ball of dough – even when it looks dry and crumbly, keep going!
- Knead the dough so that all the ingredients combine and if you need to add a small amount of water. The dough should be malleable.
- Let the dough rest for 5 minutes and cover it so it doesn’t dry out. The longer the dough rests, the softer it becomes.
- Roll the dough out on a lightly floured surface to about 1/8-inch thickness.
- Stretch the dough with your hands as you roll it with the rolling pin. Stretch and turn.
- Use a pasta cutter or knife to cut the pasta into desired shape. We cut the pasta into strips and layer them. Then we cut the strips into even smaller pieces.
- Add salt to the water and let it boil. Then add the pasta and cook for 3 to 4 minutes.
- Once the pasta is finished cooking, save 3 cups of pasta water to combine theingredients.
- Plate up the fresh pasta and add pasta water to the dish.
- Add in beans and sauce mixture to the bottom of the plate to prepare for the pasta.
- Finish by adding in the Nonna's sauce and combine with pasta. Add as much sauce as you want!
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