Pasta Fagioli or Pasta with Beans is a comfort food from my childhood. The proper name is Pasta e Fagioli, and is categorized as a soup instead of a pasta. It was often served on Fridays when we did not eat meat. Southern Italians called it Pasta Fazool, based on their Italian dialect word for beans - fasuli (“fa-SU-li,”). Nobody makes a better Pasta Fazool than my sister Marisa. Her version is a white-style. The creaminess comes from using white northern beans, a small diced potato and a ...
Marisa’s Pasta Fagioli (Pasta Fazool)
