Olive Garden Pasta E Fagioli can make this classic soup at home with our recipe. Filled with ground meat, 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. This is a wonderful and hearty soup, perfect for a cold day. You could serve this with your favorite salad topped with Olive Garden 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 three delicious bowls of soup. You can get the Chicken Gnocchi Soup, Zuppa Toscana, or finally this Pasta E Fagoili. All three of these soups are excellent. This one is hearty, and perfect for enjoying with a large crowd.
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. For this soup, we are using canned beans to help cut down on the cooking time.
This recipe makes a very large amount of soup. It’s perfect for a large crowd. This is one of those recipes that tastes even better the second day, you are bound to fall in love when your version of the Olive Garden Pasta E Fagioli when you make it at home.
Olive Garden Pasta E Fagioli
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Olive Garden Pasta E Fagioli
Ingredients
- 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
Instructions
- 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. You can find more Olive Garden Recipes at CopyKat.com, the web's most popular destination for copycat restaurant recipes. 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 up some fresh pasta and stir it in when you are ready to serve.
james says
i use this and changed to marnara made with hunts zesty this adds to flavor. great soup
lkm9679 says
I have been thinking of a recipe my husband adores. He has had oral cancer 3 times and is unable to eat many of his favorite foods anymore. But up until I got this recipe I was going out to buy the soup already made. And it gets more expensive than making it myself. Thank you so much for it. I will treasure this recipe and put with my others I keep in a box in my kitchen.
Stephanie says
I am so glad you enjoyed this recipe.
Denise says
really awesome recipe, even though i put pasta in to cook 🙁 didnt read below)…….
will make again for church dinner!!!!
adam says
Is the measurements in fluid oz or weight oz?
Stephanie Manley says
The measurements in in fluid ounces.
sfTX says
In a BIG HURRY? If you have a Braums they carry a “mix”. No meat, you can add if you like, I prefer mine without. If I have the following on hand I throw it in but great without; a small can of tomatoes (i like Italian petite diced but whatever),handful of pasta, and a can of ranch style beans. I don’t measure the water, I like mine thick so i add a couple cups to cook it fast & add more as needed. Couldn’t be easier or faster, & CHEAP too, especially for 1 or 2 or a sudden craving. Perfect to keep on hand for “SOUP and SALAD” or sandwich for unexpected guest.
DATILINI-Small size bag available at WalMart in Mexican food section (50 cents)
3-4 other sm size pastas in small size bags – all 50 cents-available, ie; tiny alphabet pasta, tiny shells, tiny macaroni
Stephanie Manley says
Thank you for that great tip. I really like Braum’s even if they aren’t too close to me.
Nana says
I used V8 juice rather than the pasta sauce. Still a knockout. I made 1/2 recipe and used one 12-0z. can of the juice. Also, I would suggested using the juice (or sauce) for thinning the soup to use for leftover. We prefer serving the noodles (pasta) and pouring an appropriate amount of soup over. Over to mix in at end, though.
Nicole Girardin says
Love this recipe!! It really does taste just like Olive Gardens, and its super simple. Yum yum!!
Debbie S Mccormack says
It was great but……I would cut recipe in half next time
RuthPeters says
This recipe makes enough to feed an army! Wow…..this will be a great dinner. Thanks! I weighed everything precisely. The celery is more than a full stock, the onion is actually one and a half onions chopped finely, and the carrots were in a ten ounce bag already slivered. Plenty of vegetables.
Stephanie says
I hope you enjoy the soup for a long time. Thank you for the approximations.
Bella says
Excellent soup. I made the full recipe and it’s more like for a serving of 20…. Way too much! Half the recipe for sure!
Lois Palmer says
I hate to ask dumb questions but how many onions, carrots, and celery stalks do you use to make those ounces? Or do you just guess at it? I love Olive Garden’s Pasta E. Fagioli but I don’t remember white kidney beans in it. This version has good reviews and I can’t wait to try it.
Al Ack says
Not even close.Add a tbsp of chili powder and one tbsp of cumin along with changing the oregano to italion seasoning and then you start to get closer… Everybody, the original has Cumin in it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
stephaniemanley says
I am usually good about picking out cumin, I never tasted it in here.
Sandy says
I’ve been using this recipe for a few years now, although I can’t find the exact oz measurements you use on tomatoes and beef stock, I’ve figured it out close enough and I think it’s very close to OG……no, no cumin…….
June says
It does NOT have cumin. My daughter works there.
Hyperion says
http://restaurant.food.com/recipe/olive-garden-pasta-e-fagioli-soup-in-a-crock-pot-copycat-31717 this is the link to a crock pot recipe! ^_^
Al Ack says
I know for a fact that the Olive garden version has red chili pepper flakes ground up (Not Tabasco) and cumin in the recipe. Having experimented myself to duplicate the recipe, this one is a far cry from the real thing
Angee Jensen says
Although this was good, I don’t think this tasted anything like the real deal.
Robert Olsen says
i love the recipe but i added some kale and collards
Stephanie Manley says
I think that sounds like a nice addition.
Deborah Jackson says
My soup turned out excellent. I added 2 teaspoons of sugar, really made a difference. This is a really good recipe for when the weather is cold.
Hrking says
This recipe has become one of my all time favorites, not many recipes make it to my all-time favorite list. I love trying new recipes, but this recipe comes out every year. Make it with Olive Garden’s Salad and it’s a perfect meal to take to a family gathering or just enjoy with friends. I have mixed up the pasta by using macaroni and mini shells in regular and wheat varieties. So long as you don’t throw the smaller pasta in too soon, it’s a nice change. I have not been brave enough to try the tri-colored pasta, but soon I’ll run out of the pasta and try it. If you haven’t tried this recipe, try it!
You can half the recipe, but I love tossing the soup into the freezer in smaller quantities. Thaw the soup before microwaving, the pasta will become mush if you don’t.
Hrking says
This recipe has become one of my all time favorites, not many recipes make it to my all-time favorite list. I love trying new recipes, but this recipe comes out every year. Make it with Olive Garden’s Salad and it’s a perfect meal to take to a family gathering or just enjoy with friends. I have mixed up the pasta by using macaroni and mini shells in regular and wheat varieties. So long as you don’t throw the smaller pasta in too soon, it’s a nice change. I have not been brave enough to try the tri-colored pasta, but soon I’ll run out of the pasta and try it. If you haven’t tried this recipe, try it!
You can half the recipe, but I love tossing the soup into the freezer in smaller quantities. Thaw the soup before microwaving, the pasta will become mush if you don’t.
C000159 says
I have made this soup many, many times and I found that if you use just plain diced tomatoes that doesn’t already have seasoning, the soup turns out pretty bland. I also use spaghetti instead of marinara sauce. Spaghetti sauce also needs to have spices in it. Personally, I think this recipe is better then the real Olive Garden soup. But that’s just my opinion. 😉
NanMae says
I used spaghetti sauce as well (Prego) and always use Delmonte Original Stewed Tomatoes, so much more flavor and ingredients……
WendyM says
Just made a batch today!!!! Best soup ever. Sometimes I put a little browned ground pork in it and a just a tad more hot sauce its perfect 🙂
Smrteze says
I’m having trouble finding Marinara sauce in my area can I substitute Primavara?
Mlsizemore says
I use any kind of spaghetti sauce and it is always good.
Burtramj says
I found some with Paul Newman on the label it was wonderful