The Best Meme's Pasta Fagioli Recipe
Discover the best Meme's Pasta Fagioli recipe. This hearty and delicious Italian-inspired soup features cannellini beans, ditalini pasta, lean ground beef, and a medley of vegetables and herbs.
Ingredients
- 1 pound lean ground beef
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 thin slice onion diced
- 1 stalk celery diced
- 1 carrot diced
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- 1 32 ounce bottle tomato-vegetable juice cocktail (such as V8®)
- 1 14 ounce can chicken broth
- 1 tablespoon dried parsley
- 1 tablespoon dried basil
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- freshly ground black pepper to taste
- 1 ½ cups ditalini pasta
- 1 15 ounce can cannellini beans, drained and rinsed
Instructions
- Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir beef in the hot skillet until browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes. Use a slotted spoon to transfer beef to a paper towel-lined plate to drain; discard grease.
- Heat olive oil in the same skillet over medium-high heat; sauté onion, celery, and carrot until softened, 5 to 10 minutes. Add garlic and sauté until fragrant, 1 to 2 minutes. Stir vegetable juice cocktail, chicken broth, parsley, basil, oregano, and black pepper into vegetable mixture; bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer soup for 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile, bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook ditalini pasta in boiling water, stirring occasionally, until tender yet firm to the bite, about 8 minutes. Drain and set aside.
- Stir beef and cannellini beans into soup; cook and stir until soup is heated through, about 10 minutes.
- Spoon about 1/3 cup pasta into each serving bowl; ladle soup over pasta.