Creamy Spaghetti and Beans

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I have made this one several times and absolutely love it! It's so creamy and incredibly flavorful. I doubled the beans the last couple of times I've made it and it turned out great! It reheats fabulously and makes a great lunch all week long. However, you might need some extra caffeine to make it through the afternoon! Love it!

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My spaghetti all wanted to stick together. I was prying it apart with 2 forks in the end. A bit of a hassle. Husband liked the flavor.

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Fore warning, we skipped the pancetta.

This is tasty and fairly quick with ingredients most of us have on hand.

Warning number 1: If you don't have a skillet/saute pan ~14 inches in diameter and 4-5 inches deep, use a different pot. We used our normal boil spaghetti/soup/stew pot.

If your pot isn't much wider in diameter then the spaghetti noodles, definitely break them in half. You don't need to go any smaller, they cook fairly easily as is.

Pre chop the garlic, onion, and carrot. Once you get the oil/butter heated and toss in the garlic and the noodles it feels like things are moving fairly quickly.

I would wait on adding the beans until you've added half the stock. We like ours a little firmer then what we ended up with. My husband recommends adding a second can of beans.

Also, we tried eating both with the fresh parsley and without it and preferred without. The more subtle flavors were more evidents. At most I would sprinkle a little bit of dried parsley or italian herb mix.

Oh! We used Pecorino-Ramano instead of Parmigiano-Reggiano (had extra from the 3 mushroom rigatone and like the slightly less salty taste quite a bit!

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I'm not a fan of most of Rachael's recipes but this one's a winner. It's so creamy and delicious without any added cream. Definitely a keeper.

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Great dish! Went over well with my family, we all loved it. Only thing different I did was, I couldn't find roman beans so I used Great northern beans instead. And instead of pancetta(couldn't find it or afford it I used bacon. And I used angel hair pasta. It was so creamy and tasty, and filling! Big hit!!!!!!!

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This is so yummy and creamy! I couldn't get enough of it! The only change I made was using bacon instead of pancetta.

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This recipe has instantly become my favorite. This is a great alternative for alla carbonara.

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I thought this was great. I didn't have white beans so I used chick peas and my husband actually ate it!! VICTORIOUS! This recipe was also very easy to split in half.

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Very Carb intensive. . . great meal and quick to sleep

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I love this recipe it had layers and layers of flavor and wasn't starchy at all! My pancetta stayed crispy and didn't soften and get soggy like others had experienced. I did have to break up the pasta though like others had suggested. Even broken just in half was too difficult to turn and brown. I did tweak the recipe a bit though since I am not a fan of beans or onions. I added more garlic and some ham to compensate. I also used a package of frozen carrots & peas which worked out great! I ran out of chicken stock so I used two cups of beef stock. I used linguini fini instead of spaghetti because that was what I had on hand. All and all it worked out great, I would definitely make this again.