This soup with noodles that Kitchen with Green Light brings us is the perfect conception of light stew. It is a soup of black beans or caratoas, as it is called in some parts of the Caribbean, made with a touch of lemon and pasta that results in a powerful spoon dish but with fewer calories than normal.
Bean soup with pasta is an ideal dish for spring or early spring, when the cold hasn’t completely gone away but the body is beginning to ask for lighter dishes.
Ingredients to make bean soup with pasta:
- 1 unit of Onion
- 1 branch of Celery
- 2 units of Carrot
- 3 leek leaves (green)
- 3 garlic cloves
- 2 pieces of lemon peel
- 100 grams of cooked black beans
- 3 tablespoons tomato sauce (fried tomato or puree)
- 1 teaspoon of sweet paprika
- ½ teaspoon Cumin
- ½ teaspoon ginger
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1½ liters of water
- 1 pinch of salt and pepper
- 50 grams of thin noodles (angel hair)
How to make Bean Pasta Soup:
- To start preparing this delicious black bean soup, the first thing you should do is get the ingredients ready. To do this, wash, peel and cut all the vegetables into pieces.
- The leek in thick pieces and the rest in slightly smaller pieces or to taste. Remember that the lemon peel should be two wide strips that you can get by running a potato peeler lengthwise.
- With all the material ready, place all these ingredients together with the condiments and water in a pressure cooker. At the moment do not add any salt or pepper, we will leave it to correct the seasoning after the first cooking. Reserve the beans and pasta separately.
- Bring the pressure cooker to the heat until it beeps, then continue cooking for another 10 minutes. After this time, remove the pot from the heat, check that the vegetables are tender and then, with the help of a hand blender, blend everything. Correct the seasoning if necessary.
- Once you have crushed everything, return the pot to the heat and then add the beans and noodles. Cook until the pasta is ready. Remember that the soup can be more or less thick to taste, to modify the texture you can always add more water or vegetable broth.
- Serve the bean soup with pasta garnished with a touch of oil and a little fresh thyme.
