Saturday, November 5, 2011

Copycat: Olive Garden's Toscana Soup

First soup out of the gate - a copycat recipe of Olive Garden's Zuppa Toscano, a creamy potato, sausage and kale soup.
Ingredients: Sausage (Caputos), onions, garlic, potatoes, bacon, kale, cream, chicken broth.
Bread: with some bread baked fresh today from Caputo's.

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First step was to brown the sausage inthe soup pot and to fry up some bacon in a frying pan. Then I browned onions and garlic in the soup pot.



Next, I added the potatoes and broth and it simmered until the potatoes were tender.


Finally, the sausage and bacon went back into the pot for a bit, then the kale and cream were added. And voila! Soup's On!

3 comments:

  1. Did you use mild or hot Italian sausage? Looks easy, yummy, will try!

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  2. I used mild links which I cut into chunks. I saw several version of the recipe that also said you could use it without the casing and crumble it up. I also used a quart of chicken stock instead of water and 2 cups of water instead of the stock.

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  3. Looks good! Let me know when you need a guest taste-tester.

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