An easy White cannellini beans, veggie, and lentils soup that can be put together in just 30 minutes. It makes a great one-pot meal. You can serve it up as is for a lighter meal, or add some grilled toast to make it more filling. Actually it is more like a hearty bean stew than a soup. But it is known as white beans pasta soup so I will call it that. Another special thing I love about this white bean soup is, simple ingredients come together to make this utterly satisfying full of flavour homestyle Italian meal. Perfect for a weeknight dinner try it you would want to make it again. You already know my love of soups and meal in bowls, that make life much easier. Another thing that I love is Italian food! That was one of the reason that during I spent lot of time in Italy and did 2 short courses to learns Italian basics.
Ingredients for Tuscan White Beans Pasta soup
From Pantry: White canneilini beans, pink lentils, Fresh: Zucchini, baby tomatoes, celery, onion, garlic, basil Pasta: Macaroni Olive oil Spices and Seasonings: white wine vinegar, black pepper, oregano, dried parsley, salt to taste Cheese: parmesan cheese
How to Make It
For creating this Tuscan bean pasta soup, I used pink lentils as a base. I also add white beans/canneilini beans as that is main ingredient of this Tuscan pasta soup. To make it even more healthy I added few chopped veggies like zucchini, celery and baby tomatoes.
Recipe Notes and Tips
This does not require elaborate cooking so perfect if you are a lazy cook like me. Other thing that makes it easier to cook is I keep my most ingredients chopped and prepped on the weekends. The secret to best tasting soup is seasoning it well. Use fresh ingredients, and cooking it upto a right texture. How you cut your vegetables also matters because cut of the produce makes difference in the overall cooking time. I sometimes add spinach to this that adds taste as well as makes it nutritious.
Substitutions For Ingredients
Sometimes when I do not have white beans I use kidney beans/rajma. The taste and look changes but this substitution for white beans works good taste wise. I have used macaroni pasta here, you can use any short pasta to make this soup even ditalini pasta works great too. I use parmesan cheese cheese if you have Pecorino Romano cheese that works too. If you are vegan and want to enjoy the tuscan bean soup you just have to skip the parmesan cheese. But in whatever I have learned during my short courses no dish in Tuscan cuisine is complete without little shavings or gratings of their favourite cheese parmigiano.
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