Episode #2 - Making Italian Pasta Fagioli with Italian Grandmother Nonna Paolone

In episode #2 Nonna Paolone teaches us how to make a very popular and classic Italian dish called Pasta Fagioli. What is Pasta Fagioli? Pasta Fagioli is pasta with beans. If you are a fan of Dean Martin then you are very familiar with his song called “That’s Amore”. In that song ‪Dean Martin‬ talks about “Pasta Fagioli” singing, "When the stars make you drool just like a PASTA FAGIOLI, That's amore”.
Watch to get the step by step instructions so you can share this dish with your family and friends. One important ingredient that she always adds to her recipe is cooking with her heart. So, be sure when you make this you do it with all your heart. Enjoy!
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Ingredients for the sauce:
- Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- 2 Tablespoon of Chopped Onions
- Red Pepper Flakes
- 14oz Tomato Sauce
- 1/2 Cup Water
- Pancetta (optional)
- 1/2 chopped Garlic
- Salt
- Basil
- Parsley
- Sausage (optional)
- White Beans or Canned Beans
- Parmesan Reggiano Cheese
The sauce will cook and boil for 30 minutes
on low heat.

[@Ladythyme]

Not Nonna but whoever is talking over her “BE QUIET “! We can follow & for the most part understand her! OMG! Nonna you are wonderful!

[@rrosaseconda]

I agree with Mr65plexi. The cameraperson is DREADFUL! The soup looks magnificent.

[@roccomancini9171]

"'cause I like it- that's the way it's supposed to be!" I agree, Nonna!

[@crystalhaiku]

I love to see how a true Italian cooks. I'm learning very much from Nonna. I hope she will make more videos. Thank you!!

[@junegiovanni6475]

Omg I love your mom, she is adorable...I want her to cook for me. She reminds me of my mom and grandma. Mexican mom's have a lot in common with Italian mom's, they take pride in there foods, it's made with a lot of love and full of culture. God Bless Nonna.

[@janicetong4516]

Thank you for posting these precious moments with your mom. Reminds me of watching my mom cook where she just keeps adding ingredients with not much explanation. LOL. I will definitely try out Nonna's delicious recipes.

[@rivrangerful]

Thank you so much for showing me how to make this dish. I made it today and it is delicious. You used ingredients that I am familiar with. Please more recipes. nikki

[@LarsaCorp]

Yum! Thank you for this lovely video!

[@FreedomofSpeech865]

I really enjoyed this video, precious family time and the fish is one of my favorites. Keep the videos coming.

[@mariacepeda381]

You guys are so funny together lol I love how you film how you have the square top window great job. Thanks for sharing I will make this..

[@katejonkman402]

That is legit! Loved this video.

[@carmelahowcroft2163]

Love, love, love the sincerity of your cooking videos with you and your loving Mamma....Your videos are realistic and love you going along every step of the way, teaching us your subscribers and viewers exactly how to make your various recipes....I am in Canada, and I understand you Laurie were born in Toronto, Ontario...Canada...I was born in Calabria, Italy and came here (Toronto) in 1954....How often do you get to Toronto...I saw the video with your precious Godmother making Chicken soup and Stracciatela Soup....Delicious! Keep your videos coming, as I really enjoy watching you guys in the kitchen....I hope you are all doing well these days, and hopefully soon the Pandemic will be gone....Ciao Paesani mei!!

[@elsbethmcewan633]

This looks delicious. You’re making me very hungry.❤

[@ElizaDolittle]

Pasta e ceci is pasta with chick pea sauce. We make that too where I'm from. Love both bean dishes. The beans your mom cooked were white beans - the canned beans were cannellini (kidney beans) - two different beans. Your mom's preparation looks delish by the way! I'm watching this at 1AM and I'm starving! Is she from the Puglia region? She must be!

[@gretaducksworth7500]

Loved It!

[@kathypell]

love these videos, reminds me of me and my Grandma Della from Bari Italy

[@jonpulicicchio5000]

Thank you for the instructions. Beautiful kitchen. Excellent equipment.

[@anthonhysalomone2025]

I’m drooling!

[@annmariecosta3084]

Not to be mean but (1) stop talking and let nonna do the talking and (2) can you please get the upper screen out of the way, it is very distracting and is blocking nonna. Thank you...

[@michaelmendillo7513]

Boy , everyone makes this dish a different way, I have made this dish now over a dozen times ! And each time it is different ! And now I am going to make this one just like yours ! Keeping in accordance to my record ! Lol ! Cant wait ! I just know it will be great!!! Thank you ladies ! Much love being sent ! 😁✌️✝️💕💕💕😇🙏💕💕💕🇮🇹

[@waappsshh]

The Tupperware lol, like a flash back to my grandmothers!! Love this!

[@mr65plexi]

Nonna I like your style but the camera woman with the reverb, echo, delay, on your voice is ridiculous, fire her! For you bona joba!

[@bellacucina3209]

Her daughter! lol

[@mr65plexi]

@@bellacucina3209 Work in progress thats how we all get better!!! Thanks

[@ritalowry186]

I like her she makes us understand exactly what she is using. And she has open the recipe exactly how it should be. Great job ladies. .. una bella jobba lol A la Pisano

[@marthawashington308]

Who's talking? Tell them to be quite

[@MyREDTAIL]

Looks great Nonna Make me hungry I am going to make some tomorrow etc thanks again put up some more Recipes Please.

[@josephbaumann292]

Unfortunately, the sound is awful. Good instruction though.

[@susankando9320]

I know its an older video but with the weather getting chilly its perfect time for Pasta Fagioli! The traditional way is always the best. That kitchen wow a cooks dream I have kitchen envy :-)

[@salvatoredangelo7026]

Thank you for sharing your awesome video's🇮🇹

[@marisaporco9520]

Loved the videos nonna reminds me of my mom no recipes they just know 😍

[@janandbruceadamsvanadventu3226]

Looks so good. That is my favorite soup.

[@elizabethshaw734]

Pasta e fagioli is not soup. I lived in Italy and it has a bit of broth but it is not a soup! Just an FYI :-)

[@cherylvalentine693]

Yum looks delicious!

[@arrivagabry]

you talk too much girl! and stop correcting your nonna, she knows what she is doing

[@DD-hy1nl]

You took the words right from my mouth..I couldn't watch anymore! Good thing I know how to make this dish, pasta fazool.

[@michaelmendillo7513]

Bella Nonna. ! 😋💕

[@drjaymissdiana]

Who cares if everybody’s talking? In our kitchen we all talk . . . it’s family! Families talk. Nonna reminds me of my grandmother. And boy could she cook. And talk. And teach. Miss Diana

[@nicoled6991]

Great video! Grazie!

[@eyeonart6865]

Thank you for letting us' be with you all in the kitchen!

[@As-zn3cd]

how does the daughter grow up in an italian family and not know what cece are?

[@sandymarchionni354]

Angela Smith omg thought the same thing

[@corryjookit7818]

Don't assume that this is a given. Not all women can cook you know. Not all Italian women can cook, no matter how old they are. You do us women no favours with this stuff.

[@aljames5072]

@@corryjookit7818 Ok Gloria! Lol!

[@wendellas3420]

Me too .. I’m Cajun and even though I coucookin my moms kitchen I learned everything! How does this person not know theses ingredients?..

[@wendellas3420]

@@corryjookit7818relax Karen

[@eyeonart6865]

She is an excellent cook

[@eyeonart6865]

Beautiful kitchen

[@saraloiacono5515]

I would like to see new videos of nonna Paolone thank you

[@2075vj]

I put some smoked turkey breast, Celery and Parmesan rind in mine. It’s one of fav soups. The small Pasta..in Italian means little fingers.Thanks!

[@sunshinemelanina1046]

I love Nonna's Paolone authentic soup e faglio....mangia bene !!

[@carchick7545]

Missing my Grandmother watching this. Ditalini is how she made it with no meat lots of garlic and Parmesan Reggiano!

[@eyeonart6865]

Her Mom is very patience with the daughter. Later in life she will look back at these films and be able to make these recipes and enjoy.

[@saleen622]

i just want to say god bless that women she reminds me of my mother and that pasta e Fagioli lis on the money very beautiful done Signora

[@artthompson612]

In my Nonna's house her daughters did the cooking Nonna gave the instructions, Italian was the only language used in the kitchen. Notice the fresh green salad and the bread in the bowl under the towel on the table. Nonna Paolone is the genuine article.

[@SongSparrow-wf2is]

delicious 🌷

[@elizabethshaw734]

This is hilarious! :-)

[@gageloftus9748]

My god. Tbis looks delicious

[@jackiesmith2801]

I'm making mine tonight, but I have orzo pasta, and pork sausage. I would love to have some homemade Italian sausage!

[@marinadesantis2914]

Hi Girls, I love your video, & pasta e fagoli is one of my favorites. Please fix the sound, I couldn't finish watching the video, I had to turn the sound off. Grazie Nonna🤗

[@millerjoan]

check your sound! I had to go to another cooking video because I could not deal with the echo!

[@nicoled6991]

Some of the people on here are mean! Don't listen to them, thank you for sharing your recipe

[@MyREDTAIL]

Right they do not know anything about real Home Italian cooking thanks for sharing This was called Peasant Food ,Bu the Italians etc.

[@annschiraldi5262]

Nicole go see #29 patatoe salad,

[@ritalowry186]

Some lol is an understatement

[@tony.tony.6336]

Look good the. Food 👍

[@PieroPelu78]

sentivo l'accento familiare,io sono abruzzese di Pescara,bella pasta e fagioli come la faceva la mia nonna.

[@ElizaDolittle]

io pensavo fosse pugliese. forse mi sbaglio

[@CynthiaWaldrop]

It looks so much better with the ditalini. Mezzo-rigatoni are made for meat sauces. Your mom knows how to make a dish taste good and look good.

[@jenniferhickson7563]

Oh, mama Paolone you are so funny!

[@mg-ti6ob]

I made it without sausage & Pancetta Yummy. 😘😋

[@mariclar53]

Camera lady, thank you so much for making this great video for us that don 't have an Italian mom. You are a treasure.

[@millerjoan]

To Chef Nonna Paolone, thank you for this wonderful recipe. Find someone else to help you with your videos. This person you have now is rude, disrespectful and cannot hold the camera right. The sound is terrible. I will not return to this channel. Be blessed.

[@bellacucina3209]

You know this is her daughter, unfamiliar with technology. lol.

[@paulinefalzon7847]

Nice please can you show us has to do the home made tomatoes sause thank you I am gone try this resipie thank you god bless

[@reneedimitros2821]

Mama makes me laugh this is a little different then I expected? It's not a Soup .. It's more like a pasta meal. But all in all very nice watching!! love your house beautiful kitchen great for cooking.. Renee from Elmwood Park New Jersey

[@ElizaDolittle]

Yes, pasta e fagioli is not supposed to be a soup. It's supposed to be a pasta meal - I have always had it prepared that way all the years I lived in Italy. Not sure why in America they call it a soup.

[@mr65plexi]

OMG camera women why do you have an echo on her voice! Che Catso! Rimbambita!

[@kathythe_italian626]

Sorry, but the word is cazzo. But, yea, you're right about the rest. I grew up about 100 km north of Naples. This recipe is not very original.

[@vi9763]

The parrot daughter is so annoying. Better with the mom on her own.

[@DDios-ih9de]

Romans add a diced potato not always meat.I dont use meat..the canned beans i perfer are low sodium GOYA brand Progresso are mushy..I do like Centos but i perfer them bottled in glass..all tomatoes..get them in any Italian salimeria..Market.. I cook dried beabs also with celery and i add a bay leaf or two I freeze plain beans of all kinds too..when i cook them i make extra just to freeze plain..same pasta but i like the smaller dilatini and my soup a little wetter...this is a "Seca"...soup"...dry soup..I love the died potato in it..its GOOD...

[@DDios-ih9de]

I cook my nacaronis seperate as Well but i mix the pasta in the bean pot cook 1 minute together it will expand too much if cooked together i just do it a min to blend and alls hot abd i like it a but wetter..i add minced carrot onion garlic cekery parsley and the red dried pepper i get whole crack open throw out seeds and ribsits just heat not really flavor the skin gas flavor the peppers flesh it dried in it I add a piece with vegtables and olive oil cook lightly add potato water cook a bit add beans vean water some eyeball it and tomatoes cook till i think its done then mux cooked pasta in vean pot..yea some fresh vasil if i got i like parsley cos its good 4 u Vitaman K..a bit of oregano bought dried on branches sold in bags ONLY JUST A BIT ITS NOT PIZZA! Leftovers always good..gotta add water the Macs soak it up !

[@rickhaslam96]

Agreed, cook pasta separately. My family is Roman but never put potato in, but they did crush a handful of beans to thicken, they also added the heel or rind of Parmesan cheese - no meat

[@corryjookit7818]

Are the large parts of this kitchen from a restaurant kitchen ? Looks as though it does.

[@LandNfan]

They sound like they have buckets over their heads.

[@MyREDTAIL]

Was the sausage pre cooked or put in fresh & let it cook within the sauce.?

[@debrapobega4180]

MyREDTAIL it was cooked already. She had it from the night before and cut it up.

[@gorp27]

I like Nonna's attitude. You ask her if she can use the inferior store bought canned tomatoes and she comes back with a resounding "NO". I would love to know what she was thinking during the making of this video, it was probably something along the line of - You make me do this cooking video and now YOU want to tell me how to cook! or Pay attention, you should know all of this and make your own video.

[@lottatroublemaker6130]

This would be delicious to make with leftover vegan sausage or seitan roast & bakun! Wonderful fully vegan Pasta e Fagioli on steroids❗️☺️😋 YUMMY❗️❣️❗️

[@namelessrose3859]

Great video.. that noisy woman in the background just needs to stop!!! Repeat only if needed!!!!!!

[@marjoriejohnson6535]

Cento whole plum tomatoes are the most like home canned ripe tomatoes that you can buy in a grocery store. Bought 8 cans...opened them all and tested. Hunts and miran( ? Not sure of name...) organic were worst. What else does an organic gardener do with curiosity and extra time do? .

[@MyREDTAIL]

Seems that Mom like a lot of the CENTA Brand Products, As they are a good Company for their Italian Products etc.

[@arthurfiorillo8591]

The pug and the Viking my pug tries to trip me, so I spill the food on the floor, and she runs off I hope you had better luck with that stove then I had!!

[@keithwilson9378]

daughter your a trip and we all know you love garlic lol anyways thank u for videos your moms can cook good anytime u see a cook cuting over pot they good cook . and also making own tomatoe sause good thing but Cento makes some alright tomatoes but not as good as home made pick out your garden

[@ramencurry6672]

It’s more like a pasta and bean sauce dish than the normal version. It looks decent though

[@drconnieh700]

Nanna put your cell phone at your work station to video what you’re doing...that will eliminate the person doing the recording. Rather hear you show and tell us what you’re doing. Thank you for your recipes

[@terryivey5374]

The extra comments by camera person isn't necessary, I'm sorry. Do we need everything explained 2 or 3 times? Nope, got it the first time. Wish I could finish watching, but annoying.

[@donaldhaggart7524]

Have you. ever used Roman Beans ??

[@millerjoan]

STOP with the echo and moving the camera!!!

[@yagnur5834]

super madam.👍🌹

[@dollpins1574]

Homemade tomato sauce dang!

[@letsgomets002]

What a nice house who's the rich one in the family ?

[@mariakellner2221]

Pasta water makes the sauce silky.

[@fallenforthemelody]

Why is the mic like that G

[@heatherhayes8234]

Lose the mic, but so yummy!

[@delananicodemus8259]

Girl, shut up. Nona knows what she’s doing. Sheesh!

[@soulvaccination8679]

She is the best..I need a woman like that

[@arthurfiorillo8591]

Well I can see you did not help mama in the kitchen I have three daughters none of them can cook like my wife.

[@spiritofecstasy8525]

🍷🍛 🍲 LOOKS VERY GOOD❗ 🍷🍲 🍛 🐎🐎 SPIRIT 🐎🐎

[@corryjookit7818]

All the recipes use Pancetta, so Why's this optional here ?

[@mr65plexi]

La Joventu have no clue!

[@paulybarr]

Well...the lyric is actually "When the stars make you drool just like pasta fazool", because fagioli doesn't rhyme with drool. Fazool is Napoli slang for fagioli

[@pamelaismyname]

The sound is really rough

[@alydude2011]

JUST LET THE LADY COOK FOR GOD SAKE ! I can’t even watch her cook anymore I’m DONE !

[@SuperTamig]

My nona made it thick I like it thick

[@2075vj]

you don’t have to waste the time and showing us how to run so I can Bing. There’s nothing like homemade. Thanks for trying

[@MrKErocks]

So much camera movement that I almost threw up!

[@fortruth8538]

Piano, piano, che disastro. Pasta, faggioli and all the leftovers mixed in minus the meat because its Friday. Va bene!!!!!!!!!

[@mikha1978]

la pasta cotta a parte?!?!??!!? hahhahaahahahahahahha....io avrei aggiunto altri pomodori hahahaha

[@KingKongFan]

+mikha1978 zitto stronzo!

[@1000Goldlady]

Very annoying video because of person in background, too confusing, bad choice