One Pot Olive Garden Zuppa Toscana Soup! Comfort food at it’s best! Loaded with bacon, sausage, potatoes, and kale! So delicious and filling, the whole family will love this soup! Don’t forget the dinner rolls or crescent rolls to serve alongside this delicious soup!
Olive Garden Zuppa Toscana Soup Recipe
Back in November of 2011, I shared the recipe for my favorite soup ever, Olive Garden’s Zuppa Toscana soup. It went bananas and has since been one of the most popular recipes on my site. It’s a recipe that I make at least once a month and more like once a week during the winter. My whole family loves it and you guys do too!
After numerous requests, I shared a slow cooker version of the soup in 2014. That version has also been insanely popular and well-loved by my readers.
Here we are in 2017, and I am now sharing a one pot version that makes this soup so simple and easy, you’re going to make it more than ever. Instead of baking the bacon and browning the sausage in the oven, everything is done in one pot. I used my new dutch oven that my Dad got me for Christmas! I love how all the drippings from the sausage and bacon add so much flavor to the soup! It’s fantastic!
I also doubled the amount of kale. For some reason, my boys think this is the best part of the soup… Who am I to argue? I love buying the pre-chopped kale to make things easy. I also use a mandoline for slicing the potatoes. It takes about one minute to have them all perfectly and uniformly sliced.
I add a bit of crushed red pepper flakes to the soup as well as a bit of salt and pepper. Totally optional. The soup already has a lot of salt from the bacon and heat from the spicy Italian sausage so feel free to omit if you’d like.
I know you’re going to go crazy for this one pot Olive Garden Zuppa Toscana soup! Less dishes is always a good thing 🙂
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How To Make Zuppa Toscana Soup
Zuppa Toscana Soup
Ingredients
- 16 ounces spicy Italian sausage
- 8 slices bacon
- ½ large onion diced
- 2 to 3 cloves garlic minced
- 28 ounces chicken broth low-sodium
- 24 ounces water 3 cups
- 5 russet potatoes medium, thinly sliced
- 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes optional
- salt and pepper optional
- 4 cups chopped kale
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
Garnish
- Parmesan cheese
Instructions
- Brown sausage in a large pot or dutch oven. Remove sausage with a slotted spoon and set aside.
- Cut bacon into small pieces. Add bacon to pot and cook until crispy.
- Stir in chopped onion. Cook for 5 to 6 minutes or until onion is translucent.
- Stir in minced garlic and cook for 1 minute, stirring frequently.
- Add chicken broth and water to the pot. Add crushed red pepper flakes, salt, and pepper if desired.
- Add thinly sliced potatoes (I use a mandoline) and the cooked sausage to the pot and bring to a simmer over medium heat.
- Continue cooking until potatoes are tender, about 10 minutes.
- Add the kale to the soup, and simmer for an additional 5 to 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Stir in the heavy cream and let heat through.
- Ladle the soup into bowls and serve with Parmesan cheese on top.
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Originally published January 22, 2017.
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Christine says
My family loves this recipe. I’ve never had the soup at Olive Garden so I don’t know how it compares. But it is a fantastic soup and you definitely need to try it.
Wanda says
Thank you so very much for this recipe. It was absolutely wonderful…followed it exactly except for cutting it in half for single person (but still leftovers). I honestly think this was even better than I remember of the one in the restaurant. It was just marvelous and love one pot dishes especially. I just took my time and enjoyed every bite…and the parm on top after dishing it up was great. Tried to leave a pic but couldn’t find a way to, but thanks again 🙂
Susan Kirby-Cohn says
Finally made this recipe last night. Going into fall here and plan to make more soup for those cold nights. I would say that this is even better than Olive Garden’s version!! I ended up making only slight modifications. First I simmered the soup quite a bit longer waiting on company to arrive, still adding the kale and the cream minutes before serving. The only recommendation I would make is to skim some of the fat prior to adding the onions and garlic. Other than that, this is an awesome recipe that I’ll certainly be making again! Thank you.
Andrea says
I have made this soup many time and it is outstanding! Thank you for a great recipe!
Emk says
This is OK but to make the flavors shine, cook the meat in water and add it to the broth. This is the Mennonite way.
Angela @BakeItWithLove says
This is my favorite Olive Garden soup and I can’t believe I haven’t made it at home yet! Can’t wait to get a big pot of this simmering!
P T Thomas says
I HATE Kale. Can I use Spinach instead?
Kale just tastes too bitter for my tastes, so I usually substitute Spinach.
Hope it will work in this recipe because the rest of the ingredients make it sound delicious!
Thanks!
Trish - Mom On Timeout says
Yep, spinach works great in this recipe!
Rhea says
Exactly like Olive Garden ( maybe even better) I like my soup soupy so I did add a little more chicken broth! Best ever!
Edwin Sim says
Hi Trish,
I have been wanting to try this recipe for a long time in the event that something happens to Olive Garden (God forbid). This has been my long standing favorite every time we go to Olive Garden (especially during the cold winter months). So today I finally took the plunge and was so pleased as it’s almost spot on the same as Olive Garden. Needless to say, it was delicious. Thank you, thank you and Thank You!
Trish - Mom On Timeout says
I appreciate this so much Edwin!
Kim says
The soup is delicious. However, please be prepared to spend more than 45 minutes listed. I’ve never made it in under an hour and 15 minutes. There’s a lot of prep work