Italian Bean Soup Recipe

Slow Cooker Italian Bean Soup Recipe

This simple Italian Bean Soup Recipe is a favourite, healthy, school-night recipe. It’s a perfect recipe for the slow cooker, Insta or crockpot. Try it as a MEAT FREE Monday dish, or you can add bacon, ham hock or chicken for a hearty meat version. When you get home you’ll have a delicious school night dinner ready in minutes. Print out the recipe at the end of the post, and put a copy of this perfect school-night recipe to your Teacher Life Recipes file!

Italian Style Extras

What I love about soup recipes and cooking in the slow cooker is that you can add what you like or have in your pantry and leave out what you don’t like! Make this soup with any type of beans you prefer, butter beans, white beans or Berlotti beans. Try chicken, ham hocks, bacon or leave the meat out!  The same goes for the herbs, dried or fresh.  Basil, Oregano, Thyme and Rosemary all work well. Share with us in the comments below what you find works well!

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Useful Equipment For Making Soup

Instructions

Peel and chop carrots, celery, tomatoes and onion.

Place vegetables in a slow cooker with ham hock and add beans, herbs, and tomato paste and season to taste. To save on washing-up try a slow cooker liner slow cooker liner!

Useful Chopping Equipment

Pour stock over ingredients and break pasta into small pieces.

Cook in the slow cooker for 8 hours on low or 4 hours on high. Remove ham hock from slow cooker and discard rind and remove meat from bone. Use two forks to ‘pull’ the meat. Add meat back into soup.

Serve with Parmesan toast.

Buon Appetito!

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Italian Bean Soup Recipe

Try this delicious Slow Cooker Italian Bean Soup Recipe 5 Stars! - Slow Cooker - Tasty - Simple to make - Few ingredients - Low cost And kind to the waist line too! Win Win! the ingredients are just a suggestion, you can use whatever you have in your fridge or pantry!

Course

Main Dish

Cuisine

Italian, Slow Cooker

Keyword

crockpot, easy

Prep Time

10 minutes

Cook Time

4-8 hours

Servings

people

Ingredients

• 1 medium onion
• 2 medium carrots
• 2 medium sticks celery
• 1 pack Cherry Tomatoes
• 1 tin Berlotti Beans
• 4 cups vegetable stock 1 pack
• 30 sticks spaghetti approx
• 1 200g ham hock or chicken thigh or chopped bacon (optional)
• 2-4 tbsp tomato paste
• 2 tsp Dried Oregano or any herbs of your choice
• 1-2 bay leaves

Course Main Dish Cuisine Italian, Slow Cooker Keyword crockpot, easy Prep Time 10 minutes Cook Time 4-8 hours Servings people Ingredients 1 medium onion 2 medium carrots 2 medium sticks celery 1 pack Cherry Tomatoes 1 tin Berlotti Beans 4 cups vegetable stock 1 pack 30 sticks spaghetti approx 1 200g ham hock or chicken thigh or chopped bacon (optional) 2-4 tbsp tomato paste 2 tsp Dried Oregano or any herbs of your choice 1-2 bay leaves

Instructions

1. If using, place slow cooker liner inside slow cooker.
2. Peel and chop carrots, celery, tomatoes and onion.
3. Place vegetables in a slow cooker with ham hock and add beans, herbs, and tomato paste and season to taste.
4. Pour stock over ingredients and break pasta into small pieces.
5. Cook in the slow cooker for 8 hours on low or 4 hours on high. Remove ham hock from slow cooker and discard rind and remove meat from bone. Use two forks to 'pull' the meat. Add meat back into soup.
6. Serve with Parmesan toast.

Recipe Notes

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