Olive Garden Pasta E Fagioli

  • Prep Time: 15 mins
  • Total Time: 1 hrs 25 mins
  • Servings: 8

    • About This Recipe

    “Another really good Copycat recipe! Serve with Salad and Hot Italian Bread or Bread Sticks, and offer grated Parmesan at the table.”

    Ingredients

  • 1lbground beef
  • 1cupdiced onion
  • 1cupjulienned carrot
  • 3stalkscelery, chopped( 1 cup)
  • 2garlic cloves, minced
  • 2 (14 1/2 ounce) cans diced tomatoes
  • 1 (15ounce) cans red kidney beans( with liquid)
  • 1 (15ounce) cans great northern beans( with liquid)
  • 1 (15ounce) cans tomato sauce
  • 1 (12ounce) cans v-8 vegetable juice
  • 1teaspoonvinegar
  • 1 1/2 teaspoonssalt
  • 1teaspoonoregano
  • 1teaspoonbasil
  • 1/2 teaspoonpepper
  • 1/2 teaspoonthyme
  • 1/2 lbditali pasta

    • Directions

  • Brown beef in a large stock pot over medium heat-drain off fat.
  • Add onion, carrot, celery and garlic and saute for 10 minutes.
  • Add remaining ingredients, except pasta, and simmer for 1 hour.
  • After 50 minutes boil pasta to al dente.
  • Drain well.
  • Add pasta to the large pot of soup and simmer for 10 minutes.
  • (Weight Watchers Points for 1 Serving: 7).

    • Reviews

  • “Excellent dish.Easy to make and very tasty.Added a little more water to make it more saucy.Next time I might just make it with 2 cans of V-8.Whole family loved it.”

  • “A very hearty soup. Great flavor and presentation the whole family liked it! Great for a wintery day!”

  • “I tried this recipe even though I wasn’t sure I liked pasta fagioli and I LOVED it!My husband and other adult family loved it as well but the kids weren’t crazy about it (the beans).I can’t wait to make (eat) it again!”

  • “Dynamite!! I eat at the Olive Garden all the time my favorite meal is the Pasta e Fagioli soup, salad, and breadsticks.Not only did I find the soup recipe on Recipezaar, I found the house dressing recipe.All I needed was Dean Martin singing in the background. This recipe is a lot heavier than their soup so I, like others used 2 cans V8, I used a couple of cans of Knorr chicken broth and reseasoned the soup.I agree that the cooked pasta sould be added to the bowl right before serving. I also added a little of my favorite hot sauce. Thank you Diane.”

  • “I added a little more pasta and a little more beef which makes it hearty. This is better than Olive Garden’s.”

  • “I thought it was very good. But I also wish I would have added a little more tomato juice or water. It got a little thick the longer it sat. But my family did like it a lot. I could not find the ditali pasta so I substituted another pasta instead.”

  • “Oh my yummy goodness!!!This was awesome last night and I’m actually eating some right now for lunch.Next time I will add another can of V-8.I also added some hot pepper sauce.This is wonderful!Thanks.”

  • “Tasted great. The only thing I did different was add a little water because of all the reviews that said it was too thick.Glad I did because there wasn’t much liquid to make it soupy.I think next time I will add another V-8 and water and more seasonings becuase the leftovers have no liquid.I guess the pasta soaked it all up.Definitely will be making again.Thanks”

  • “Delicious!I have never had The Olive Garden’s version, but I thought I would give it a try because of all the rave reviews.I added an exra can of V8 per the suggestion of a few people, and I think it was thick like a good chili.Maybe next time I will cut down on the simmer time by 10 minutes.I will definitely make this again.Thanks!”

  • “Diana, this is an excellent, hearty and fillingsoup! I wouldn’t change a thing.It is very much, if not exactly like the Pasta e Fagioli served at Olive Garden. Very easy to prepare.I served it with tossed green salad and Italian bread. I will be keeping this recipe close at hand!Thanks so much for sharing this, Diana!”

  • “One of the best soup recipes I have ever made. Taste’s exactly like Olive Garden’s soup!”

  • “Very good; I served this with a tossed salad and warm garlic/cheese toast.Next time, I will either not add as much pasta or double the broth to make it more “soupier”.(is that a real word?)But Diana is definitly ON when it comes to the taste, a true clone of the Olive Garden.Thanks for a great recipe!”

  • “Wonderful recipe. The only substitution I made was to use tomato juice instead of V-8. Just a family preference. This was so hearty and full of great Italian seasonings. I actually thought it was better than the Olive Garden’s. Thanks for sharing this. A real favorite of ours.”

  • “last night my bother and sister-in-law had a party, and this is the dish that we brought. We converted it to 20 servings using the useful update feature. Everyone, including the children, loved it. In fact, my sister is back at my brother’s now eating some. it is a great recipeand i have made this numerous times already.”

  • “I did not add the tomato sauce but did double up on the V8.I also needed to add V8 whenever I served this soup after efrigeration.I also did not add the pasta to the soup until ready to serve, as the pasta seemed to absorb the broth. “Delicious” said my 17 year old daughter who, so far, has been quite finicky when it comes to soup, which I love to make and eat.”

  • “Excellent, the whole family loved it! I also did not have digitali pasta and used spiral pasta. Another definite keeper, I may learn to be a cook yet.I did have to look up julienne on the Zaar dictionary to see how the carrots were supposed to be cut, but now I know, like matchsticks.Thanks for the great recipe Diana!”

  • “This recipe was created by Todd Wilbur, from his book “Top Secret Restaurant Recipes” Penguin/Plume 1997.”

  • “I used this recipe today, and everyone loved it.I did, however, take some culinary license…I used Progresso Minestrone Soup in place of the beans, tomato sauce, v8 and pasta.(I did this only because we have tons of this stuff that I got on sale for the winter only to find out that my Dear Husband no longer likes it.)Anyway, I used all the other ingredients as indicated.He loved it.Also, it only took about half the time.I will be adding the original recipe to my Keepers and will make it from scratch… after I’ve used all the canned stuff! Thanks for posting.”

  • “i thought this was better than olive garden.it is very thick, which i like, so it isn’t very “soup like.””

  • “Really good flavor.It needs about 3 times the amount of liquid.Then when you warm the leftovers it needs even more liquid.I think it would be better with 1/2 the pasta or use the pasta like spaghetti and the remainder as the sauce on top of it.I definitely will cook it again.”

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