Sausage and Bean Soup with Pasta

Summary:  It’s really a pretty traditional “Pasta e Fagioli” soup, but with sausage. I’ve made the soup with turkey sausage, but you can use any sausage you like.  

Ingredients:

• 1 cup dried cannellini or cellini beans or 1 15-ounce can of any beans you like, drained
• 1 pound ground sausage, turkey or pork
• 1/2 medium onion, diced
• 1/2 medium carrot, diced
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 15-ounce can diced tomatoes
• 6 to 8 cups chicken broth
• 1 teaspoon dried thyme
• 1 bay leaf
• salt and pepper
• 1 cup ditalini pasta, or any small pasta
• grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese

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