Piattoni beans and tubettini: a delicious different kind of bean
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Beans and pasta
Tubettini with Piattoni beans means a particular type of green beans with a flat shape. You should prepare it with fresh tomatoes or tomatoes puree and a "soffritto" of onions (white for a sweeter flavour or red to gain more consistency). Below an easy and quick but always delicious recipe to prepare tubettini with this kind of beans as a main dish or a first course with lovely Italian pasta.
Author: Maria C. Bada
Recipe type: Appetiser
Cuisine: Italian
Serves: 4
Ingredients
- 500 g of Piattoni beans (Flat green beans)
- 1 Onion (white or red0
- 100g of Tomatoes puree/a tomato can
- 4 Tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
- Salt
- Peperoncino (chilly peppers)
- Pasta: tubettini
Instructions
- Wash and clean the beans, cut them in pieces.
- Preheat the extra virgin olive oil in a large pan, cut the onion in slices and add them to the pan.
- Let the onion sauté for a few minutes. Add all the beans and the tomatoes puree or the tomato from the can or 3 fresh tomatoes.
- Sprinkle with salt and cook the sauce for few minutes.
- Add 2-3 glasses of water and let the beans cook for about 20 -30 minutes.
- Serve very hot with peperoncino (dry hot chilly pepper).
Green beans
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