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[shirley]

Serves 4-6
Tuscan bean and pasta soup

Ingredients
8 oz (225 g) dried cannellini beans

4 oz (110 g) shortcut macaroni

2 tablespoons olive oil

1 large onion, peeled and finely chopped

2 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed

2½ level tablespoons tomato pureé

1 heaped tablespoon fresh rosemary, bruised in a mortar then very finely chopped

salt and freshly milled black pepper

To serve:

Parmesan (Parmigiano Reggiano) cheese , grated or shaved

You need to start this soup a few hours ahead by rinsing the dried cannellini beans in a sieve under cold water and placing them in a saucepan with 3 pints (1.75 litres) of cold water. Next, bring them up to the boil and give them about 10 minutes before turning the heat off and leaving them to soak for 2 hours.

When you're ready to make the soup, first heat the oil in another large saucepan, add the finely chopped onion and let it cook for about 10 minutes without colouring. Then add the garlic and cook for another minute. Now add the tomato purée and fresh rosemary, stir for a minute and then pour in the beans, together with the water they were soaking in. Now bring everything up to simmering point and simmer gently for about an hour, or until the beans are tender.

After this time, season with salt and pepper, then pour half the soup into a blender, switch on and blend until it's absolutely smooth. Now return the puréed half to the pan to join the rest of the beans, bring back to a gentle simmer, then add the macaroni and simmer for a further 10-12 minutes, stirring from time to time, until the macaroni is cooked. Serve in hot soup bowls with lots of the Parmesan sprinkled over.

This is from www.delaionline.com

[roitelet]

I don't know how authentic this is but it is good.

Minestrone Soup

Fry together for 10 mins in 1 tblspn oil until soft

1 small onion chopped
1 clove garlic
2 sticks celery chopped

Add

1 tin chopped tomatoes
1 bay leaf
2 tspns fresh basil or 1 tspn dried
1 tspn fresh oregano or 1/2 tspn dried
2 tspn fresh rosemary or 1/4 dried
3 oz chopped green pepper
3 oz carrot diced
2 tbl spns tomato puree
1 1.2 pints stock

Simmer covered for 40 mins then add

1 oz noodles, short cut macaroni or broken spaghetti
1 dst spn soy sauce
salt and pepper

Simmer for about 15 mins and then stir in 1 tblspn chopped parsley and serve at once

[smallblueplanet]

Hey roitelet I thought you'd have lots of French onion soup recipes!?

[roitelet]

Or if you want something really 'beany' try this one,

Harrira (Moroccan Soup

Soak over night and then drain and simmer in 2 pints water for 1 1/2 hours

2oz Chick Peas
2 oz Butter Beans

Add

2 oz Black eyed beans
2 oz Red kidney beans
2 oz large green lentils
2 oz yellow split peas
2 oz green haricot beans
1 tin tomatoes chopped
8 oz onions chopped
1/4 tspn black pepper
1 tspn turmeric
1/2 tspn powdered ginger
1 tspn cinnamon
juice of 1 lemon

Boil fast for 10 mins and then simmer for another hour or until the beans are tender. Add

1 1/2 tspns salt
Another 2 pints water

Mix together and then add to the soup

1 1/2 - 2 tblspns flour with 3 tblspns water until smooth wisk in a few ladlefuls
of the broth and return it to the soup. Stiring well to avoid lumps and simmer until the beans are soft.

Add

1 bunch coriander chopped
a few sprigs of mint or 2 tspns dried
1 tspn paprika
good pinch cayenne pepper (optional)
2 oz tiny pasta shapes or rice (optional)

Simmer until the rice or pasta are cooked. Serve. Thin the soup with water if it is too thick

Enjoy

[smallblueplanet]

Searching for another recipe I came across this thread - there's some tasty looking recipes on here! I'm bumping it up to remind me to print some off!