Pasta e Fagioli

Name: Pasta e Fagioli
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 40 min
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 6 slices bacon, cut into ½-inch pieces*; ½ cup olive oil; 6 cloves garlic minced; 1 onion, diced; 4 (15½-ounce) cans white beans, such as cannellini, great northern, or other small white beans, with their liquid; 4 (15½-ounce) cans white beans, such as cannellini, great northern, or other small white beans, with their liquid; 4 (15½-ounce) cans white beans, such as cannellini, great northern, or other small white beans, with their liquid; 1 (28-ounce) can whole tomatoes, with juice, hand crushed or chopped in a blender; 2 quarts Depression Chicken Stock (page 47) or 4 (15½-ounce) cans chicken broth; 2 quarts Depression Chicken Stock (page 47) or 4 (15½-ounce) cans chicken broth; 1 pound small pasta (tubettini, orzo, elbows, orecchiette, or small shells), cooked al dente; 1 pound small pasta (tubettini, orzo, elbows, orecchiette, or small shells), cooked al dente; 1 pound small pasta (tubettini, orzo, elbows, orecchiette, or small shells), cooked al dente; 1 pound small pasta (tubettini, orzo, elbows, orecchiette, or small shells), cooked al dente; 1 pound small pasta (tubettini, orzo, elbows, orecchiette, or small shells), cooked al dente; Kosher salt and crushed red pepper flakes, to taste; Kosher salt and crushed red pepper flakes, to taste; ¼ cup chopped fresh parsley; ½ teaspoon dried oregano; 1 cup freshly grated Pecorino Romano cheese

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
40 min

Appears in

Cooking with the Firehouse Chef

By Keith Young

Published 2005

About

I always get a kick out of listening to people try to pronounce words that aren’t native to their language. My sister-in-law Maureen calls this soup “Pasta Fazooh.” The first time I heard her say it, I was at Sunday dinner at my in-laws’ house, and everybody at the dinner table started cracking up. Maureen’s said it quite a few times since then, and it still makes me smile. For most soup recipes, I prefer to use fresh stock, but in this recipe, for the sake

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Americas
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Pasta
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