How To Make Olive Garden Pasta Fagioli Soup

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Olive Garden Pasta e Fagioli soup is filled with ground beef, pasta, beans, carrots, and so much more. Olive Garden Pasta e Fagioli is easy to make and makes a perfect dish to bring to work for lunch, or even for a light dinner.

a bowl of homemade Olive Garden Pasta e Fagioli soup

This is a wonderful hearty soup and perfect for a cold day. You could serve this with your favorite salad tossed with Olive Garden Italian Salad Dressing. A hearty sandwich also goes well with this soup.

When you go to the Olive Garden you have a first important choice to make – are you a soup or salad kind of person. Olive Garden serves up four delicious kinds of soup. You can get the Chicken Gnocchi Soup, Zuppa Toscana, Minestrone, or this Pasta e Fagioli.

All four soups are excellent. This one is hearty and perfect for enjoying with a large crowd.

Ingredients

Here's a list of what you need:

Ground beef
Vegetable oil
Onion
Slivered carrots
Celery
Canned diced tomatoes
Canned or cooked red kidney beans
Canned or cooked white kidney beans
Beef broth
Dried oregano
Pepper
Tabasco sauce
Marinara sauce
Small shell macaroni or other small pasta
Fresh parsley

For this soup, we are using canned beans to help cut down on the cooking time.

Ingredients for the Olive Garden Pasta E Fagioli soup.

How to Make Olive Garden Pasta Fagioli

Cook the beef in the oil in a large stockpot, breaking it up as it browns.
Add onions, carrots, celery, and tomatoes. Simmer for about 10 minutes.
Add beans, beef broth, oregano, pepper, Tabasco, and marinara sauce.
Simmer until celery and carrots are tender, about 45 minutes.
Add the pasta and simmer until it is cooked.
Stir in the parsley before serving.

CopyKat Tip: Do not add the pasta if you plan on freezing the soup. Pasta does not freeze well. Just cook some pasta to add to the soup when you thaw and reheat it.

overhead view of a bowl of homemade Olive Garden Pasta e Fagioli soup

This soup abounds with different types of beans, pasta, fresh onions, fresh celery, and fresh carrots. You will be surprised at how easy you can put this soup together.

This recipe makes a very large amount of soup, about 9 quarts. It's perfect for a large crowd. You can cut the recipe in half for a smaller amount.

This is one of those recipes that tastes even better the second day.

You are bound to fall in love with this version of the Olive Garden Pasta e Fagioli when you make it at home.

homemade Olive Garden Pasta e Fagioli soup in a bowl and a spoon

Do you love Olive Garden? Try these copycat recipes!

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Be sure to check out more of my hearty soup recipes and the best Olive Garden copycat recipes here on CopyKat.com!

a bowl of homemade Olive Garden Pasta e Fagioli soup

2 pounds ground beef
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
12 ounces chopped onion
14 ounces slivered carrots
14 ounces diced celery
48 ounces canned diced tomatoes
2 cups cooked, drained red kidney beans
2 cups cooked, drained white kidney beans
2 3/4 quarts beef broth
1 tablespoon dried oregano
2 1/2 teaspoons pepper
1 1/2 teaspoons Tabasco sauce
48 ounces marinara sauce
8 ounces small shell macaroni (or other small dried pasta shape)
5 teaspoons chopped fresh parsley

Cook the beef in the oil in a large stockpot, breaking it up until it starts to brown. Add the onions, carrots, celery, and tomatoes and simmer for about 10 minutes.
Add the beans, beef broth, oregano, pepper, Tabasco, and marinara sauce. Simmer until celery and carrots are tender, about 45 minutes. Add the pasta and simmer until it's cooked.
Stir in the parsley before serving.

This makes 9 quarts of soup. Just cut the recipe in half for smaller family needs!

If you want to freeze this soup, don't add the pasta. Cooked pasta doesn't freeze very well. You can always cook some fresh pasta and stir it in when you are ready to serve.

I recreate your favorite restaurant recipes, so you can prepare these dishes at home. I help you cook dinner, and serve up dishes you know your family will love. You can find most of the ingredients for all of the recipes in your local grocery store.

Stephanie is the author of CopyKat.com's Dining Out in the Home, and CopyKat.com's Dining Out in the Home 2.