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Carla Makes Pasta e Fagioli | From the Test Kitchen | Bon Appétit



Join Carla in the Test Kitchen as she make pasta e fagioli! The key to a soup with fully developed savory flavor starts with the soffritto—a mix of aromatic vegetables that are slowly cooked in the first stage of cooking. Take your time sweating down the vegetables until they are completely softened before letting them take on any color. You’ll be surprised by how much volume they lose and how much liquid they release and by how much unquantifiable richness they lend to the final dish, which is nothing more than a combination of humble ingredients.
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  1. my 2 favorite soups, italian wedding and pasta e Faggioli
    taking them as inspiration
    both have chicken broth, some kind of meat
    deglaze with vermouth and balsamic
    add chopped spinach and tiny sausage meatballs (wedding), bean (fazool half blitz and half whole), sofrito technique(thanks for the tip)
    cook pasta separately,

  2. Now this is a ministrone and pasta & beans is something totally different and its also not a soup, no meat either, there are so many recipes out there or variations but it's not authentic. This recipe looks great though. I often make something like this but pasta must be cooked in the same pot for me to absorb all those lovely flavours.

  3. But in Italy the pasta fajoul I saw I in homes was beans and pasta with onions, garlic & carrots (very few) no tomatoes, nothing green. Most of the beans are mashed. Salt & pepper only. The cheese rinds and lard the flavors. I have feeling this would have been minestrone to them. This must be American style?

  4. NEVER put garlic in pasta et fagioli
    the important part is celery
    celery is a powerful flavor people dont understand that
    the ham hock is good
    but it really should be a pig's foot
    you should cook it SEPARTLY with the beans
    more coligen in the foot means more gelatin in the soup
    A PROPERLY COOKED PIGS FOOT IS UNBELEIVBY SUCULENT
    THAT YOU CAN PUT THE GARLIC IN
    everything eles you did
    FINE

  5. Glad I stopped to watch this Video cause I had been doing this all wrong & today I am making this soup. Adding my own flare with Spinach in addition to kale & adding 2 small Zucchini & a bit of hot sauce with thyme & bay leaf & a small amount of Portuguese Chourico Minho Sausage cause I like it & Because I couldn't find Chorizo which is my go to for this particular soup. The twist here for me is the Soffito < I think I spelt this incorrectly lol ,anyway I never heard this term before & SO VERY GLAD I now know cause this is exactly what's been missing during the process. I Like this far better cause I don't really admire too many chunks in my soups cause for me, the soup done this way seems more elegant as much as it is flavourful without the huge body which I don't want cause of the beans & pasta. In my soup I always prefer a 3 cheese Tortellini FRESH vs the dried pasta. Its ok when Finances are tight but as a staple, tortellini is preferred due to the added cheese & style & flavour vs dried tasteless pasta. This will sit on the stove all day till after dinner then put in fridge for the next day or freeze which I think freezes very well since I don't cook the pasta in with the soup. Thank you so much for this video, I learned quite a bit today 🙂

  6. I usually feel that a recipe is just something I would know how to do anyway. (I have been reading recipes books since I was 16 years old ). But this really felt like a cooking lesson. I have just been making this as I watched video three times over last month. Thanks Carla

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