Olive Garden Recipe (copy cat)

Olive Garden Recipe

Pasta E Fagioli Soup

 

 

2 lbs ground beef                       3 (10 oz) cans beef broth

1 onion, chopped                       3 tsp oregano or 

3 garlic cloves, minced                or Italian seasoning

3 ribs celery, chopped               2 tsp pepper

3 carrots, chopped                     5 tsp parsley

2 (28 oz) cans diced tomatoes   1 tsp Tabasco sauce

1 (16 oz) can red kidney            1 (26 oz) jar spaghetti sauce

    beans                                      8 ounces pasta  

1 (16 oz) can white kidney

  beans drained

 

Brown hamburger, drain.  Add onion and garlic and saute, then transfer

to a large slow cooker.  Add all remaining ingredients except pasta.  Cook on LOW for 7 hours or on HIGH for 4 hours.  During the last 30 minutes on high, or 1 hour on low, add pasta.  Serve with grated Parmesan on top.

 

This was the most delicious new soup recipe I have tried in a long time.  I bought 365 Days of Slow Cooking by Karen Petersen a while back and am slowing trying some of the recipes.  I would highly recommend this one.