Fake Fast Fazool
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
-
6
ingredients
- 2 (793.78 g) can garbanzo beans
- 453.59 g Italian sausage, remove the casing
- 19.71 ml chopped fresh rosemary, or
- 9.85 ml dried rosemary
- 4-6 large garlic cloves, chopped
- 0.25 ml red pepper
- 59.14 ml tomato paste
- 396.89 g can Italian-style stewed tomatoes
- 1182.95 ml chicken broth (canned is fine)
- 226.79 g small shell pasta (about two generous cups of shells or elbow macaroni)
- 236.59-473.18 ml greens, cleaned chopped (such as spinach, kale or chard leaves)
- 354.88 ml parmesan cheese (parmagiana) or 354.88 ml romano cheese, grated
directions
- Strain the liquid from the canned beans into a blender (or use a hand blender right in the pot.) Add 1 cup beans and puree until smooth.
- Add sausages, rosemary, garlic, and red pepper to a large pot. Sauté sausages mashing them up, until cooked.
- Mix in tomato paste, tomatoes, bean puree, remaining beans, broth, greens, and pasta.
- Simmer until pasta is tender, stirring occasionally, about 30 minutes.
- Mix in 1/4 cup cheese.
- Season with salt and pepper, if needed. Serve with remaining cheese.
- It's very freezable, but thickens as it stands. Add more broth if you want it thinner.
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If I weren't a teacher, I'd be a chef. I love to cook, grew up cooking, had a fireman chef for a dad, and have spent most of my free time with cookbooks, food, entertaining, classes, study, and luckily I'm in one of the best food areas in the world! But...teaching is the absolute best job in the world. Don't tell anyone, but it's more like fun and you never get bored.
My pet peeve is when people spell DEFINITELY wrong. I DEFINITELY don't want to read more reviews with DEFINITELY spelled wrong. But hey, I'm an English teacher :). My other pet peeve, food-wise, is "cream of whatever" soup. I think my mom OD'd us all on it when I was growing up.
My biggest challenge in cooking was trying to learn FAST food. At an "older" age, I married, had a baby and have had to learn a new way to cook! No more leisurely hours to fix dinner for friends or an hour to put something together for me....! My daughter is seven now, opinionated, and it's a real challenge. Luckily she likes almost everything. And so does my sweetie. I loved seeing her horrified face at her first abalone fresh from the ocean (my husband dives for them occasionally...oh man, nothing better...) But she ate them and then slurped down some oysters!!!
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