Tuscan White Bean Soup

This Tuscan white bean soup's creamy, hearty, comforting and delicious! It is everything you want in a soup and perfect on a chilly day.

Course Soup

Cuisine Italian

Keyword bean soup, Tuscan white bean soup, white bean soup

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 1

Total Time 1 5

Servings cups

Calories 314kcal

Heat a Dutch oven on medium and once that has heated, add oil.
2 tablespoons olive oil
Once that has heated, add onion, carrots and celery and sauté for 8 minutes
1 medium onion, 2 medium carrots, 1 stalk celery
Add garlic paste, salt and sauté for 2 more minutes
2 teaspoons garlic paste, 1 teaspoon salt
Add broth, diced tomatoes, beans, rosemary and sage and simmer for 10 minutes
2 leaves sage, 3 cups chicken broth, 14.5 ounces diced tomatoes, 14 ounces Northern beans, 1 sprig rosemary
Remove rosemary and sage and use an immersion blender and blend until some of the contents is smooth and some whole beans remain
Add farro and simmer for 30 - 35 minutes. Farro should be al dente but not overcooked
1 cup farro
Either transfer to a serving bowl or ladle soup to some crocks
Eat
Smile
Enjoy

Helpful tips

If you don't have an immersion blender, please get one. There is nothing worse than transferring the contents of your pan to a blender, in batches, to process it to the right consistency. A good immersion blender goes for $50 - $100 and is so worth it, you'll be wondering why you hadn't gotten it before.
Use fresh herbs as it does make a difference, especially in the taste of this dish.
This dish usually uses borlotti beans (a.k.a cranberry beans and Roman beans), but since I can't find them locally, good substitutions are Northern beans or Cannellini beans. Some people also add white kidney beans or navy beans.
I recommend petite diced tomatoes but regular diced are also fine.
The farro grain comes in many different types (pearled, Italian, etc.) and you could use any of them. I just don't recommend instant or precooked because I don't like those textures.
My practice is to put the farro (or any grain/bean I'm cooking) in a sieve and rinse in a bowl cold water, swishing my hands through whatever I'm washing; empty bowl of water and repeat, twice at minimum, three times is a charm.