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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Italian >> Italian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Heat oil in 3-quart pan, add onions and cook over meduim heat till limp, but not browned. | 2. Add garlic and stir until you can smell it, maybe a minute or two. It's key to prevent it from browning. | 3. Add drained spinach and combine well with onion and garlic. | 4. Stir in tomatoes. | 5. Stir in one can beans with their liquid. | 6. Liquify the rest of the beans with their liquid in a food processor, or mash with a potato masher in a bowl. Stir them into the rest of the dish. | 7. Simmer for 5 minutes to thicken, making sure it doesn't stick. | 8. Add chicken broth a little at a time until you get the thickness you like. It should be thick, but thin enough to coat pasta. | 9. Stir in oregano and basil and season to taste with salt and pepper. Add more olive oil if desired. | 10. Serve over hot pasta with grated Parmesan cheese. You can add a little heat with some red pepper flakes. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
extra virgin olive oil	3	tablespoons		-	-	-	-
onion	1		chopped	44.0	10.274000000000001	1.21	0.11
garlic clove	4		minced	17.88	3.9672	0.7632	0.06
spinach	1	package	chopped thawed squeezed slotted frozen	-	-	-	-
tomato	3	cans	diced	120.6297	26.0694	5.8975	1.3403
cannellini bean	2	cans		-	-	-	-
chicken broth	1/2	cup		39.06	0.945	5.5692	1.3104
oregano	1	teaspoon	dried	2.65	0.6892	0.09	0.0428
basil	1/2	teaspoon	dried	0.1016	0.0117	0.0139	0.0028
wheat pasta	12	ounces	cooked	1231.502	248.6817	45.9602	9.1172

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.