16 Bean Pasta e Fagioli

Name: 16 Bean Pasta e Fagioli
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 1 pc 16 bean soup mix; 2 tbsp olive oil; 170 g pancetta; 1 pc onion; 3 pc garlic; ½ tsp crushed red pepper flakes; 1 pc crushed tomatoes; 1 cup dry red wine; 4 cup chicken stock; 1 tbsp kosher salt; 1 tsp black pepper; 1 cup miniature pasta (ditalini or tubettini); 50 g Italian Parmesan; 1 tbsp red wine vinegar; 1 pc fresh basil leaves; 1 tbsp olive oil (for serving); 1 tbsp Italian Parmesan (for serving)

A hearty Italian-style 16-bean soup thickened with a portion of pureed beans and finished with tender pasta, Parmesan and a splash of red wine vinegar.

25 min 512 kcal/serving serves 6

512kcal20gprotein49gcarbs24gfat

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🫘16 bean soup mix

🫒olive oil

🥣pancetta

🧅onion

🧄garlic

🫑crushed red pepper flakes

🍅crushed tomatoes

🍷dry red wine

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About Ina Garten

American cookbook author and TV host known as the Barefoot Contessa

Ina Garten is an American cookbook author, television host, and former specialty food shop owner who built the Barefoot Contessa brand around confident, unfussy entertaining. She rose to prominence through her Barefoot Contessa cookbooks and long-running Food Network show, and remains one of the most trusted voices in American home cooking.

Garten's cooking favors classic American and European comfort food made approachable, with an emphasis on good ingredients over technique, plenty of butter, fresh herbs, and reliable, repeatable methods. She is known for straightforward roasts, braises, and baked goods such as Perfect Roast Chicken and Beatty's Chocolate Cake, alongside dishes borrowed from Italian and Jewish traditions like pasta e fagioli and rugelach, all adapted for confident weeknight or dinner party cooking rather than restaurant precision.

Eight recipes on Mello, imported from barefootcontessa.com, mostly American and Italian.