{"id":2442,"date":"2010-11-14T21:39:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T05:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodiddy.com\/?p=2442"},"modified":"2010-11-14T21:41:37","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T05:41:37","slug":"white-bean-and-pasta-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foodiddy.com\/?p=2442","title":{"rendered":"White Bean and Pasta Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was looking through a vegetarian cookbook and happened upon a white bean soup recipe. It looked a little involved – soaking beans overnight, finding corallini pasta, etc. and I didn’t feel like leaving the house to hit up the grocery store for missing ingredients. I knew I had a can of organic cannellini beans in the pantry and I had recently bought some organic vegetable\u00a0broth for another recipe – I had various boxes of pasta, so I decided to do my own version. Sort of the same ingredients, but not really.<\/p>\n

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The Ingredients:
\n<\/strong>1 Can of Cannellini Beans
\n32 oz. Vegetable Broth
\n8\u00a0oz. Water
\n4 oz. Gemelli Pasta
\n2 Tablespoons Olive Oil
\n2 Garlic Cloves – I used my frozen cubes
\n4 Tablespoons Flat Leaf Parsley – chopped
\nGarlic Gold Nuggets – I used\u00a03-4 shakes\u00a0for 1 bowl
\nSalt and Ground Pepper to taste<\/p>\n

Directions:
\n<\/strong>Pour veggie\u00a0broth into a soup pot\/dutch oven and place on medium high heat – \u00a0let simmer while prepping the beans.<\/p>\n

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Rinse your beans and then put 1\/2 of them into the food processor with a tablespoon of olive oil, process to a smooth pur\u00e9e.<\/p>\n

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Return the pur\u00e9e to the soup pot and stir well to mix.\u00a0The bean pur\u00e9e was the perfect thickening agent.\u00a0Add your second tablespoon of olive oil and 8 ounces of water and stir before adding the pasta.<\/p>\n

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Add the pasta and remaining beans\u00a0to the soup, return to a boil, and cook for 10-15 minutes, or until tender. Mine took a full 15 minutes. Once the pasta is fully cooked, add the flat leaf parsley, salt and pepper.<\/p>\n

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I had been seeing Garlic Gold<\/a> on a lot of the food blogs that I read, so over the summer I found some at Taylor’s Market in the Curtis Park area of Sacramento, CA. I’ve been in love ever since. Toasted organic garlic sprinkles (nuggets)\u00a0added the top layer of\u00a0crunch I was looking for.<\/p>\n

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This soup easily falls into my “top 5” favorite soups list. The only thing that disappointed me, was the fact that I didn’t make a bigger batch.\u00a0Next time I will double the recipe for sure. I ended up with 3\u00a0medium bowls. One in my belly and 2 in the fridge for lunches this week. Crusty bread and a bowl of this… pure vegetarian soup delight.<\/p>\n

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Have you ever pur\u00e9ed beans for a soup before? Do you have a favorite bean soup? This was such a simple recipe, it will definitely be in my soup rotation from here on out. Corn chowder is still my favorite, but man o’ man was\u00a0this good! Is it wrong that I’m already excited for my lunches this week?
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I was looking through a vegetarian cookbook and happened upon a white bean soup recipe. It looked a little involved – soaking beans overnight, finding corallini pasta, etc. and I didn’t feel like leaving the house to hit up the grocery store for missing ingredients. I knew I had a can of organic cannellini beans … <\/p>\n

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