A dish that warms the heart and stomach on cold evenings: we learn to make pasta and beans according to tradition
Ingredients
- 1 Kg Fresh borlotti beans
- 100 g flour 00
- 100 g Remilled durum wheat semolina plus a little
- 30 g Sliced lard
- 2 pcs Eggs
- 1 pc Celery stalk
- 1 pcs Small carrot
- 1 pc Small onion
- Garlic
- Rosemary
- Laurel
- Tomato concentrate
- Extra virgin olive oil
- salt
- pepper
Preparation
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1
Start by shelling the fresh beans by collecting them in a bowl. Cut celery, carrot and onion into tiny cubes.
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2
Sauté the vegetables in a saucepan with 4 tablespoons of oil and 2 bay leaves for 2-3 '. Then add a spoonful of tomato paste.
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Cook for 1-2 ', then add 2 liters of cold water and the beans. When boiling add a sprig of rosemary, cover with the lid and cook for about 30 '. Towards the end, add salt and pepper.
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4
Mix the semolina and flour with the eggs to obtain a smooth dough. Cover it and let it rest in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
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5
Roll out the dough into a thin sheet on a floured surface and cut it into lozenges with a notched wheel.
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6
Drain half of the cooked beans. Remove the bay leaves and rosemary and blend the soup into cream.
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Add the whole beans in the cream and bring it back to the heat. When boiling add the pasta, cook for 3 '.
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8
Very finely chop half a clove of garlic, the leaves of 2 sprigs of rosemary and the lard. Brown the mixture obtained in a hot pan without other fats until the lard has melted.
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Add the browned mixture to the pasta and beans, stir, turn off the heat and let it cool before serving, with a sprinkling of pepper.
Pasta and beans: alternatives to the classic recipe
Pasta with beans is a simple and genuine first course that everyone prepares following a different recipe. One of the most famous is the Neapolitan-style pasta and beans recipe, to be done strictly with mixed pasta.
Small changes in the recipe concern for example the addition or not of the tomato or the choice of herbs, from rosemary to laurel. There are also those who love to enrich this dish with other ingredients: you can choose both meat, as for pasta and beans with pork rind, and fish, as for traditional pasta, beans and mussels.
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