FAVOURITE RECIPE
Q I’m looking for a recipe for pasta fazool. We had it on holiday in Naples and it was deliciously different! I have been online, but there are so many interpretations. I thought you might be able to help with a more authentic recipe.
A Pasta fazool is the Neapolitan dialect name for pasta e fagioli, the thick pasta and bean soup popular all over Italy and which has a thousand different interpretations! There are so many recipes for this soup as each and every region of Italy seems to have its own take on it. Basically, however, the recipe is always more or less the same, with a few variations such as the addition of tomato purée, other vegetables, herbs, pancetta, chilli or sometimes a different kind of bean. Here is our own version for you.