Pasta e Fagioli

First recipe from a new book and it turned out great!

It was pretty easy to make except for the bean portion. I tried with dried cannellini beans twice (once the day prior, once the day of) but both times they cracked on and me and were still hard. The book states in a different page that great northern beans can be used instead of cannellini, and that great northern beans are consistently better quality in the US compared to cannellini. I ended up using canned great northern and rinsed them before use.

I made one more substitution which was the pasta. I could not find fileja (filei), so I settled on Fusilli Avellinesi I had in my pantry. They looked very similar to the filei pasta with some slight differences.

The pasta was topped off with a little calabrian chili and pecorino romano cheese.