Vegetable Soup with Tomato-Basil Sauce

Ingredients

• •1 cup dried white beans
• •1 tsp salt
• •15 fresh green beans
• •1 carrot
• •1 zucchini
• •1 tsp black pepper
• •8 tbsp orzo
• •1 tomato
• •3 cloves garlic
• •2 tbsp fresh basil
• •4 tbsp grated kashar cheese
• •2 tbsp olive oil

Preparation

1. 1

   Soak the dried beans overnight. Drain into a large pot, cover with cold water a few fingers above, boil hard 30 minutes and drain.

2. 2

   Add 6-8 cups hot water to the same pot with the soft beans, the chopped fresh green beans, carrot and zucchini. Season with salt, add 1 tsp black pepper and the orzo. Cook 10 more minutes and remove from heat.

3. 3

   For the sauce, blend the peeled tomato, garlic, basil and grated kashar, adding the olive oil little by little. Ladle the soup into a bowl, drizzle the sauce over and serve hot.