Pasta e fagioli

A Italian lunch for the galley that copes with rough seas, one pot, can be made ahead and frozen, about 25 min hands-on.

  • Lunch
  • Italian
  • ⏱ 25 min
  • 🌊 Sea tolerance 5/5
  • 🪨 Bare bones
  • vegan
  • vegetarian
  • pescatarian
  • kosher
  • halal

Ingredients

For 4 servings (one normal-appetite adult each). Per serving in brackets.

  • Dried pasta (durum wheat)200 g (50 g)
  • Canned white beans (cannellini)480 g (120 g)
  • Canned chopped tomatoes400 g (100 g)
  • Onion (brown/yellow)160 g (≈ 1.5 onions) (40 g)
  • Carrot120 g (≈ 2 carrots) (30 g (≈ 0.5 carrot))
  • Celery80 g (≈ 2 stalks) (20 g (≈ 0.5 stalk))
  • Garlic (bulb)20 g (≈ 0.5 bulb) (5 g)
  • Extra-virgin olive oil32 g (8 g)
  • Vegetable stock cubes12 g (3 g)

Method

  1. Soften diced onion, carrot, celery and garlic in oil.
  2. Add tomatoes, beans, stock cube and 300 ml water per serving; simmer 10 minutes.
  3. Add small pasta and cook until tender, adding water if thick.

In the galley

  • Copes with a seaway — 5/5 for sea tolerance.
  • Stow the main ingredients in the fridge.
  • Make ahead: cook in port and freeze in portions.
  • One pot — less to secure, less washing-up with fresh water.
  • Contains: Celery, Gluten — always check the labels of what you buy.

Per serving

🌾 Fibre-rich

kcal
461
protein
18 g
fat
10 g
carbs
77 g
sugar
8 g
fibre
11 g

From USDA FoodData Central, raw weights — a planning guide, not a label; a few values use a close stand-in.

Nutrition per serving: USDA FoodData Central — SR Legacy (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service), weighted by each ingredient's grams — a planning guide, not a label. Quantities follow standard portion sizes; this recipe hasn't been tested in a real galley yet. How we make recipes

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