Difficulty
Most of our recipes are easy. Those that require a little more time or cooking ability are rated medium or advanced.
Preparation time
This is how much time you need to prepare this meal.
Total time
This is the time it takes to prepare this meal from start to finish: marinating, baking, cooling etc.
Serving size
This shows how many portions this recipe makes.
Ingredients
- 150 g dried borlotti beans (see Tips)
- 1950 water, plus extra to soak
- 100 g Parmesan cheese, cut into pieces (3 cm), reserve the rind (optional - see Tips)
- 1 onion (150 g), cut into pieces
- 1 tomato, cut into pieces
- 1 celery stalk, cut into pieces
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1 fresh long red chilli, deseeded and cut into halves
- 200 g speck, cut into cubes (1 cm)
- 20 g extra virgin olive oil, plus extra to drizzle
- 1 tbsp Vegetable stock paste or Chicken stock powder (see Tips)
- 200 g tomato passata
- sea salt, to taste
- 200 g ditalini pasta
- 1 - 2 stalks kale, roughly chopped
- dried chilli flakes, to serve
- Nutrition
- per 1 portion
- Calories
- 1498.2 kJ / 356.7 kcal
- Protein
- 21.6 g
- Carbohydrates
- 37.7 g
- Fat
- 11.2 g
- Saturated Fat
- 4.3 g
- Fibre
- 8 g
- Sodium
- 963.8 mg
Alternative recipes
Tuscan bean soup
40min
Pasta alla puttanesca
35min
Summer tomato and gin pasta sauce
35min
Super Green Pasta (Darren Robertson)
30min
Smoky Mexican bean soup
35min
Pasta e fagioli (Pasta and beans)
40min
Tuscan bean soup
30min
Baked Cabbage Pierogis
2h 30min
Minestrone
40min
Eggplant and ricotta involtini
1h 20 min
Pasta with fennel and tomato sauce
40min
Ribollita
50min