Easy Meal-in-a-Bowl Pesto, Pasta and Bean Soup

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Fresh basil and chives aren't ever connected manus this clip of year, but if you're fortunate capable to person them, coarsely chop a fistful and flip them successful astatine the extremity of cooking. They'll lend a plot caller spirit that's downright irresistible successful the dormant of winter. Of course, if you've got caller basil you tin besides marque your ain pesto. Yes, the homemade is amended than store-bought, but I find the commercialized merchandise a convenient and acceptable alternative.

For a somewhat meatier soup, disturbance successful astir 1/2 cupful diced ham oregon roasted chickenhearted nutrient erstwhile you adhd the tomatoes and their juices.

Refrigerate the cooled crockery successful an airtight instrumentality for 3 oregon 4 days. Add broth oregon h2o arsenic needed erstwhile you reheat the soup.

From cookbook writer Nancy Baggett.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 4-6 generous

1 tablespoonful olive oil
1/2 cupful peeled and chopped carrot, celery oregon bulb (or a combination)
4 cups to 5 cups low-sodium chickenhearted broth (may substitute rootlike broth)
1 spoon dried thyme oregon dried marjoram
1/2 cupful 1 1/2-inch-long pieces broken-up dried vermicelli oregon different akin bladed pasta
Half a 6-ounce container fresh, ready-to-use babe spinach leaves, coarsely chopped
1 14- to 15-ounce tin achromatic cannellini beans oregon large bluish beans, rinsed and good drained
1/4 cupful store-bought basil pesto, oregon much to taste
1 15-ounce tin diced garlic- and basil-seasoned tomatoes oregon regular canned diced tomatoes, including their juices
Generous fistful basil leaves oregon chives, coarsely chopped (optional)
Water, arsenic needed
Salt
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 6)

Calories
200
Fat
7 g
Saturated Fat
1 g
Carbohydrates
24 g
Sodium
529 mg
Cholesterol
3 mg
Protein
9 g
Fiber
5 g
Sugar
3 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From cookbook writer Nancy Baggett.

Tested by Nancy Baggett.

Published January 31, 2010

Updated March 13, 2026