Category: soup

Pasta e Fagioli Freschi

Pasta e fagioli freschi is a version of pasta e fagioli made with fresh, rather than dried, beans.

Pasta e Ceci

Pasta e ceci is an Italian soup, made with small pasta and chickpeas.

Pasta e Fagioli

Pasta e fagioli is an Italian soup with small pasta and beans. My version is tomato based and made with canned beans.

Jota

Jota is a soup made with beans, smoked pork, and sauerkraut, which hails from the Istrian peninsula at the northeastern end of the Adriatic.

Pretepena Juha od Grahova

Pretepena Juha od Grahova is a Croatian bean soup thickened with a mixture of flour and sour cream.

Frijoles Charros

Frijoles charros, or “cowboy beans”, is a traditional Mexican soup featuring pinto beans and bacon.

Fazulovika

Fazulovika is a thick Slovak soup, made with smoked meat and beans, flavored with paprika and marjoram, and usually thickened with a roux, or mixture of cream and flour.

Further exploration of Plantain Dumplings, aka Asopao de Gandules, version 2.

I’m considering this a failed recipe, shared to document my journey, not because I think you should try it. I set out to look at plantain dumpling recipes, but there’s several different types of plantain dumplings and I didn’t focus in on a specific one, so my recipe wound up kind of tough and chewy. On top of that, the soup recipe I came up with lacks seasoning.

Asopao de Gandules

Asopao de gandules is a Puerto RIcan/ Caribbean soup made with rice and pigeon peas, and served with plantain dumplings.