This pantry-driven pasta is half beans + veggies

You only need 1/2 box of pasta for 4 servings 🍝

I’m willing to bet that canned beans, tomatoes, and pasta are three items nearly all of us stock regularly in our pantries. These affordable and long-lasting ingredients are super versatile and ideal for throwing together quick, Italian-ish dinners.

Enter: this tomato pasta with beans and greens. It relies on the holy trinity of the pantry kingdom to make a cozy weeknight meal that can basically feed an army (or at least 4 hungry people).

yum.

Here’s the gist: while your pasta water comes to a boil, you make a chunky skillet sauce with sautéed onions and shiitakes, plus canned beans, crushed tomatoes, and kale. Then you stir hot al dente pasta through the sauce. A sprinkle of parsley-studded toasted panko on top adds an unexpected crunchy contrast.

Even though this is technically a pasta dish, it calls for only half of a box of pasta to make 4 complete servings, while the rest of it is beans and veggies. (That’s beauty and brains, baby!)

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