Steamed or roasted vegetables with pureed white bean sauce

I fell in love with white beans on my recent trip to Italy.  They are so versatile, heathy and inexpensive.

Vegetables

4 cups steamed or roasted vegetables - any combination of broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, squash, onions or peppers.

Sauce

This can also be used as a dip.

1 can white beans, drained but save the water.  

2 cloves or more garlic

salt and pepper to taste

1/4c chopped parsley

1 Tbl+ 1 tsp olive oil 

 

Puree all the sauce ingredients except the olive oil, adding as much water from the can needed to make a sauce like consistency and adjust taste with salt and pepper.  Warm sauce and divide in to 4 servings, lining the bottom of each plate with the sauceDrizzle over 1 tsp olive oil per serving.  Top with the vegetables.

Per servings.  145 cal for the sauce