Bean Pasta Recipes

This quick meal is a proven kid-pleaser, especially with the little ones. While this makes enough for six, expect requests for seconds! Because it's got the pasta and beans, it's a great low-cal, low-fat complete meal. Add a salad and you're set.

Fresh pasta salad with black beans, kidney beans and edamame. Perfect for a quick lunch or a light, cool dinner.

This is a variation of a dish I had at a lovely little Italian restaraunt. The broth adds the background flavor, but each component of the dish stands out as its own unique flavor, with no flavor being stronger than the rest.

Note: I cooked my beans in the crockpot with a hambone. I then used some of that broth and some of the water I boiled my sausage in. I have no idea how many calories this adds as I could not find the nutritional information. This will feed 4 hefty servings, or 8 as a light dinner. Also, I used ditalini pasta which are small tubes, but any small pasta should work fine. It may seem like a lot of work, but if you cook the beans in the crockpot and forget about them, there is really only 20 minutes of prep and cook time.

Quick, delicious and nutritious

Thick and Hearty, this will fill you up and keep you full!!!

We wanted something cool and different from our traditional pasta salads. We also wanted it suitable for our vegetarian son. We made this up as we went along and it tastes pretty good.

Now this is the kind of school I like! I wrote this healthy, fast vegetarian recipe for my Supervision class' assignment on recipe development and quality control - this thing's been tested 6 times!

The serving size of 8 is *very* generous - this makes a ton of food and is a whole meal in a bowl!

Great Vegetarian meal accented with garlic to bring out the flavors. Quick and ready to go in less than 30 minutes.

This recipe is on the back of the Harry and David Black Bean and Pasta soup mix. I used Turkey Chourico rather than the 1 cup of Keilibsa as listed.

Fast-roasted cherry tomatoes and zucchini tossed with cannellini beans, penne pasta and pesto sauce. This dish can be served hot as a main meal, or cold as a pasta salad.

by Jolinda Hackett, About.com Guide

Vegan and Gluten Free

Use a pressure cooker to make this soup In less than an hour even with dry beans. A piece of Parmigiano-Reggiano rind adds flavor and richness. Top each serving with fruity extra virgin olive oil.

A high protein pasta salad.

A mildly spicy casserole .

Very flavorful & easy to make meatless casserole.

Quick and easy lunch

Great dish to bring to a summer cookout as there is no mayo involved. Leftovers make great lunches for the week.

This is an easy to make dish that is filling and loaded with protein and fibre.

Just something that I threw together one night when I couldn't figure out what to make and it was really good and filling.

Low Fat

Quick, filling, and nutritious vegetarian main dish.

This is a delicious way to get a serving of vegetables!

italian stew

Lima beans were all i had but you can always replace with other veggies.