Pasta with Broccoli Rabe

3/4 cup dry white beans

overnight soak beans in water

1/2 tsp salt

4 cups water

Cook white beans in instant pot with salt and water, manual mode in high pressure for 4 minutes for navy beans / 9 minutes for cannelloni beans. Let the pressure release naturally.

Yields: ? cups

1 pound brown rice pasta

1 tbsp salt

Heat water in a pan and allow it to boil, add salt and cook pasta according to package instruction (I cook TJ brown rice pasta for 12 minutes). Drain in colander. Rinse with cold water.

2 tbsp olive oil

1 and 1/4 tsp dried red pepper flakes

1 tbsp garlic cloves, finely chopped

1 bunch broccoli rabe (rappini), bottom 3 or 4" of stems trimmed and upper stems chopped and kept separately green chopped and kept separately

1 and 1/4 tsp salt
white beans

Heat oil in a pan, add garlic, red chili flakes and salute garlic for 2 minute in LOW flame, add broccoli rabe stems and cook for 2 more minutes in low flame, add chopped broccoli rabe and cook for 3 minutes in medium flame, add salt white beans, mix and cook for 2 more minutes. Add cooked pasta and toss to combine.

1/4 cup pine nuts, dry roasted

Divide this into 4 serving bowls, add 1 tbsp of roasted pine nuts in each servings.

Pasta with Beans

Pasts with NO Beans

Serves: 4

Yields: 8 Cups

Taste Note: Tastes AWESOME

Note: Last weekend we had HOMEMADE CAVATELLI ALLA MAMMELLA from Sorelle Italian Bistro, Campbell and loved it, this is my version of the dish which we had in Sorelle Italian Bistro.