Bean Cuisine Ultima Pasta E Fagioli
Printer version of this recipe

I found my favorite bean soup - Bean Cuisine Ultima Pasta E Fagioli - and I have a batch cooking in my crock pot.

I have a question, though. It contains mixed beans and split peas. It doesn't say to soak them. It actually says to cook them for three hours in three cups of water and three cans of broth, with the spices and vegetables before adding pasta - and not possible to imagine beans that haven't been soaked cooking up in three hours.

What is more, some of the spices were in with the beans, so they couldn't be soaked and then rinsed.

I soaked them in the three cups of water in the crock pot overnight, and then cooked them for over an hour before adding the vegetables and spices - we'll see if the beans are cooked in another two hours, LOL!

What would y'all recommend?

In the future, the recipe calls for
about 12 oz mixed beans,
two oz pasta
2 tbsp olive oil (for frying the veggies),
1 1/2 cups each chopped onion, carrot, and celery,
3 tsp or 6 cloves of garlic,
3 cps water,
3 14.5 oz cans beef broth (I prefer chicken),
1 tsp salt (optional, I used it),
1 14 oz can diced tomatoes.
I added chopped parsley, and some fennel seed.
Also there were extra garlic, basil and oregano in the tomatoes.

Yours,
Dora Smith