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Recipe: Olive Garden Zuppa Toscana Copycat

Ingredients:

  • 1 pound spicy Italian sausage, casing removed
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 tablespoon minced garlic (or 2 cloves minced)
  • 1 onion, diced
  • 4 cups chicken broth (this was 1 cardboard carton for me)
  • 3 russet potatoes, peeled and thinly sliced
  • 3 cups baby spinach (almost a whole bag of spinach)
  • 1 cup milk mixed with 1/2 stick of butter (to make a heavy cream subsitute)
  • Pepper, to taste
  • Optional:  Bacon for topping soup

Directions:

  • COOK Italian sausage in a skillet until browned, crumbling it as it cooks.  I will say removing the casings was super easy, I slit the sausage at the top and just peeled it off.  I didn’t even bother to drain the fat when it was done.
  • HEAT olive oil in a large pot over medium high heat.
  • ADD garlic and onion and cook until onions are translucent.
  • ADD chicken broth and bring to boil.
  • ADD potatoes and cook until tender, about 12 minutes.
  • ADD sausage and spinach until spinach begins to wilt, about 2 minutes.
  • STIR in milk + butter, heat about one minute and stir well.
  • SEASON will pepper to taste.  I didn’t add salt since chicken broth is usually high in sodium as it is.
  • SERVE!  Top with crumbled bacon if you’d like!

This is the milk + butter substitute:

Recipe adapted from Damn Delicious

Cher

View Comments

  • I used to work at Olive Garden during the 2000's so I always wondered how they made it being just a waiter. Now I am going to replicate it, and have thanks going to you.

  • Yum - can't wait to try this one! I'm from Vancouver Canada and the nearest Olive Garden is about an hour away and I love love this soup!

  • this looks like something I would and do cook, I don't add beacon on top and I use bow noodles but mostly everything else seems right :) yummy this is , love it on a cold day like today was a bit chilly :) thanks for share

  • Oh yum, this looks wonderful. Every time my husband and I go to Olive Garden I order this. I love putting bits of breadsticks in my Zuppa Toscana soup. Thanks for sharing your copycat recipe, I'll be using it this Fall! :)

  • This looks so yummy. This is my fiance's favorite Olive Garden soup. I'd love to be able to make it at home. Thanks for the recipe.

  • I've always loved getting this at the Olive Garden - great to know I can recreate it at home. Thanks for the recipe!

  • This soup looks delicious. Love the combination of italian sausage and spinach. I have never had it at Olive Garden, but I know my family would love it. I am stopping by from #SITSblogging!

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