Cannellini beans AKA: White Kidney beans, are often used in Italian cooking. This quick Mediterranean style soup served with crusty bread is a meal……..hearty and full of flavors.
White Bean and Pasta Soup
Add cooked, measured amounts of small pasta to this soup once it is dished out and top with grated Parmesan Cheese! The soup is thickened with mashed potatoes, so perfect if you have some leftover. It’s flavorful and really quick to make; even if you have to boil the potatoes.
Ingredients
- ½ lb (228 gr) mashed potatoes 40.5 CHO
- 1 TBSP olive oil + some for tossing pasta 0 CHO
- 4 slices Prosciutto (50 gr), diced 0 CHO
- ½ cup (66 gr) carrots, diced 2 CHO
- ½ cup (55 gr) celery, diced 1 CHO
- ¼ cup (30 gr) red onion, diced 2.5 CHO
- 2 TBSP Hunt’s Tomato Paste (30 gr) 3 CHO
- ½ tsp salt 0 CHO
- ¼ tsp. pepper 0 CHO
- ¼ tsp red pepper flakes optional 0 CHO
- 1 – 19 oz. (540 ml) can White Kidney beans (drained and rinsed = 370 gr) 36CHO
- 4 cups chicken stock 0 CHO
- ½ cup (7 gr) spinach, finely diced 0 CHO
- ½ cup Parmesan Cheese to garnish 0 CHO
TOTAL CHO 85 CHO
- TOAL WEIGHT 1495 GRAMS
- 85 CHO DIVIDED BY 1495 GRAMS = .056 CHO/GRAM
- 1 CUP = 229 GRAMS (.056 CHO x 229 GRAMS) 12.84 CHO/CUP
*Small pasta, cooked, CHO in addition to soup
Instructions
- Peel and cook 2 medium potatoes in salted water if you do not have any leftover mashed potatoes. Drain, mash and set aside.
- Heat olive oil in a medium stock pot and add chopped prosciutto. Sauté for 2 minutes and then add carrots, celery and onions. Continue to cook for 5 minutes, without browning.
- Add tomato paste and blend with vegetables.
- Add stock, salt, pepper and red pepper flakes if using.
- Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer 40 minutes, with lid almost fully covering stock pot.
- Meanwhile cook pasta in salted water, drain, toss with a little olive oil so that the pasta will not stick and set aside.
- Add beans, mashed potatoes and spinach, after 40 minutes to the stockpot. Heat through.
- Ladle into soup bowls and add a measured amount of pasta. Generally, 1 cup of soup and 1/3 cup small pasta per serving.
- Serve with grated Parmesan Cheese.
