Mama Patierno’s Awesome White Pasta Fagioli

How to Make:

• • • Chop or mince the onion, garlic, celery
    • Add 1 tablespoon butter to pot and melt and add the minced onion, garlic and celery. 
    • Add the white pepper, salt and red pepper and cook over low to medium heat for 5 minutes
    • While that is cooking drain and rinse two cans of beans and puree the beans
    • Add the pureed beans plus two additional cans of rinsed beans to the pot
    • Add the ditalini pasta
    • Add the browned pancetta (or use crumbled light crisp bacon).  If you don’t have pancetta or bacon you can skip as it will still taste great.
    • Add the broth and water and bring to a boil and let simmer for 10 minutes
    • Add 3 to 4 tablespoons of Mama’s Organic Italian Seasoning
    • Add 4 bay leaves, 3 tablespoons of parsley, 1 more tablespoon of butter, 1 tablespoon of olive oil, clam juice and ½ cup of Wondra and stir
    • Stir in 4 tablespoons of grated Romano or parmesan cheese
    • Let simmer another 5 to 10 minutes and stir periodically
    • Let sit for 5 to 10 minutes to thicken and add salt or pepper to taste if needed.

Note:

This will serve 6 people.  Be sure to add parmesan cheese in your bowl too and dunk your Italian bread!  If you reheat the next day, you’ll need to add more chicken broth.

Quick Version:

You can put the celery, onion, garlic cloves, 2 cans of cannellini beans, some of the chicken broth and/or water in a blender all at once, add to the pot, add remaining ingredients, and bring to a boil etc.