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This is child's play to make, and I use the term advisedly, since it is the invention of my ten-year-old son Bruno (Brunostrone, we call it) and we make versions of it constantly. Use any beans or pulses you want, or a mixture is good, too, and you can play around with the pasta sauce as well. If you're coldy (and if no child is eating this), I suggest you use the spiciest, hottest sauce you can find.
Recipe posted by Nigella
Ingredients
- 1 x 400g can mixed beans (sometimes sold as mixed bean salad) or other canned beans
- 300g tomato-based pasta sauce of your choice
- 750ml hot chicken or vegetable stock
- 100g ditalini or other soup pasta
Method
Serves: 2-3
- Drain the beans and put them into a saucepan with the pasta sauce and hot stock.
- Bring the pan to the boil and then add the ditalini, cooking according to the instructions on the packet.
- Once the pasta is tender, switch off the pan, remove to a cool surface and let stand for 5-10 minutes if you can bear to wait. The pasta swells in the soup and everything just gets better.
Comments
this is even better if you have the time to add a couple of chopped up rashers of smoked bacon to the pan at the start.
Posted by saraho2704 on 28th Jun 2011 at 16.23