Olive Garden Pasta fa*gioli - The Food Hussy (2024)

What You Will ❤️ About Pasta fa*gioli

• Italian Chili – When I first tried it, the server said it was like an Italian Chili and he was right. It’s got that comforting warmth plus beans, noodles, veggies and more!
• Easy! This is a super easy soup to make – and every bite has so much flavor!
• Hearty! Pasta e fa*gioli soup is so hearty with Italian sausage, pasta and veggies – it is definitely enough to be a main dish!

• Italian sausage – you can swap out ground beef if you like or even ground turkey if you’re trying to keep the calories down
• Holy Trinity: Sweet onion, Carrot & Celery
• Garlic
• Diced Tomatoes
• Beans: Kidney Beans & Great Northern Beans
• Tomato sauce
• V8 juice – this is ESSENTIAL to give the “broth” it’s flavor. Feel free to use low sodium if that’s a concern to you.
• Vinegar
• Spices: Salt, Black Pepper, Dried Oregano, Basil & Thyme
• Ditalini – this is important – it’s exactly what OG uses! But you could sub with any other fairly small pasta to keep that same “spoonful” goodness!
• Water – this can easily thicken up so add water to make it the “soup” consistency that you are looking for. You can also swap with chicken broth or beef broth.

How to make Olive Garden Pasta e fa*gioli recipe

This soup recipe is very simple to make! Brown the meat and add everything else! Boom you’re done. Let’s do this:

1. In a Dutch Oven, brown sausage for five minutes over medium-high heat until it’s cooked about 1/2 way through.
2. Add onion, carrot, celery and garlic and saute for 5 minutes.
3. Add remaining ingredients except pasta and water and simmer at low – medium heat for 1 hour.
4. After about 45 minutes, bring a separate pot of water to boil and cook ditalini pasta according to package directions for al dente (tender but firm). Drain and set aside.
5. While pasta is cooking, add 2 cups water to simmering mixture in large pot
6. Right before serving, add pasta to soup and stir to combine
7. Sprinkle with freshly grated Parmesan cheese and serve with breadsticks & salad

Tips, Tricks & FAQs

How do you make Olive Garden’s Pasta fa*gioli in the Crockpot?

Yes! I usually just make this on the top of the stove – but you can easily make this in the slow cooker. My one tip is – brown the sausage first – then add it with everything to the pot – EXCEPT the extra water and cooked pasta. Make the pasta when you are ready to serve and add at the end otherwise it absorbs too much liquid.

Can you freeze Olive Garden’s Pasta fa*gioli?

Yes! I love this soup but I don’t love eating it 7 days in a row. I’ll have it for dinner and then leave a couple servings in the fridge for a couple of lunches or dinner – but the rest – goes right into freezer/microwave safe glass bowls and pop them in the freezer.

How do you best reheat Olive Garden’s Pasta fa*gioli?

If you’re like me and know you’re going to have leftovers – just put the pasta into the bowls you’re going to serve – and not the whole pot. What I did was spoon the leftovers out into the storage bowls and then add the pasta on top of the soup in each bowl and did NOT stir! If you leave it on top – it’s not going to absorb all that liquid. Then when you reheat – add a little water (1/3 cup per bowl) – and microwave.

What to serve with Olive Garden’s Pasta fa*gioli?

• Italian Cheese Bread
• Parmesan Bread Bites
• Kale Crunch Salad

More Olive Garden Recipes

• Soups & Salads
  • House Salad
  • Minestrone Soup
• Appetizers
  • Stuffed Ziti Fritta
  • Stuffed Mushrooms
• Famous Pasta Dishes
  • Shrimp Scampi
  • Jumbo Stuffed Shells
  • Chicken Alfredo
  • Shrimp Alfredo
  • Chicken Margherita
  • Chicken Scampi
  • Asiago Tortellini with Grilled Chicken
• Classic Pasta Sauces
  • Meat Sauce
  • Creamy Mushroom Sauce
  • Fettucini Alfredo

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Olive Garden Pasta fa*gioli

This Olive Garden Pasta fa*gioli recipe will have you feeling like you just walked into the garden of olives! It's like an Italian version of chili with sausage, carrots, onion, celery, tomatoes, beans and so much more! It's a perfect copycat recipe and tastes exactly like the real thing. It's my favorite soup to make!

Nutrition

Serving: 1cupCalories: 196kcalCarbohydrates: 0.4gProtein: 8gFat: 18gSaturated Fat: 6gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 8gCholesterol: 43mgSodium: 414mgPotassium: 143mgVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 10mgIron: 1mg