Olive Garden Zuppa Toscana

Hi, this is Stephanie Manley, and welcome to Copy Kat Recipe where I make
recipes that taste just like they do in the restaurant. Today, we're going
to make Olive Garden's Zuppa Toscana. This is a delicious soup made with
potatoes, sausage, and kale. This recipe serves about eight people.

This is a great dish to make during the winter. I just think it's so hearty
with potatoes, sausage, little bit of bacon, and kale. So I would like you
to use two large potatoes or about three medium-sized potatoes. You can buy
just regular russet potatoes. You don't need to buy anything too fancy.

If you happen to have some Yukon Gold potatoes at home, those are great in
this recipe, as well. This recipe has kale in it, and maybe you haven't
seen this in your grocery store, or maybe you've walked on by, and not
tried kale before. Kale is a fabulous, hearty green. It is very durable.
It's not like spinach, and it's going to cook up well and it's going to
hold its form and shape.

If your store doesn't have kale, here you can use Swiss chard or you can
even use spinach, but if you're going to use spinach, put it in the last
minute so it doesn't over cook. So when I use this kale, I am just going to
give it a rough chop. You don't have to chop it up too fine.

We're going to put this kale in towards the end of cooking the soup, and
it's going to be fabulous and best of all, it's going to reheat very well,
and it's going to hold its texture. We're going to use about four or five
leaves of this kale. We want about two cups for this recipe, but you know
what?

This recipe does well if you happen to add a little bit extra in. So I have
a couple of other ingredients in this soup and one is one large onion
chopped. That's about a cup of onions, so if you don't have a large onion,
just use enough onion to make one cup. I'm going to use about a ¼ to ½ half
teaspoon of red pepper flakes. This gives the soup a nice bit of heat to
it, and of course, a couple of gloves of garlic.

This soup has a couple of other ingredients in it. One pound of ground
Italian sausage, a little bit of bacon bits, two cans of chicken broth, a
little bit of heavy cream and some water. You can find the exact
our Italian sausage.

We're just going to put this in the same pot that we're going to cook in,
so that way we don't have to dirty too many dishes. So I'm going to go
ahead and crumble up the sausage, as I put it into my pot here. Now my pot
is already heated. I heated it to about a medium heat. Be sure to crumble
it up.

While my sausage is browning, I'm going to go ahead and add in my red
pepper chili flakes right now. If you add them in while it's nice and hot,
they are going to release a little bit more heat, and a little bit more
flavor, so go ahead and add those in now.

I'm also going to go ahead, and add in my garlic right now, so it will get
a chance to cook, and get that garlic flavor all over my soup. Of course,
I'm going to add in my onions right now, to give them plenty of opportunity
to release their wonderful flavor, and go ahead and let them start cooking.

So our Zuppa Toscana soup has been cooking, our sausage is just almost
brown. I am not going to worry about browning this completely. Why? Because
we're going to be cooking this for a lot longer, so I don't think we're in
danger of pork being under cooked, because we still have to add the
potatoes and let them cook thoroughly.

So we're good now. So the next thing we're going to do is, we're going to
add a couple of cans of chicken stock. Using multiple types of meat in food
preparation really helps bring out flavors, so I always love to use chicken
stock or beef stock, or anything else that I can when I'm cooking one type
of meat.

[MisterSmokeyMan]

Holy this has to be one of the best soups I ever tasted thanks for the recipe I am in heaven right now made this and the twice baked potatoes with it just takes me back to when I was a kid thank you thank you thank you :)

[StephanieManley]

Thanks for your tips. I appreciate the wisdom you bring.

[StephanieManley]

Wow I am honored that you used this recipe for the girls to earn a badge. I was a girl scout many years ago!

[StephanieManley]

I don't know if it is the best thing, but it is a very good thing about Texas

[StephanieManley]

I am so glad it worked out well for you.

[StephanieManley]

I am glad to hear the recipe worked out well for you! Have a Happy Halloween.

[StephanieManley]

I am glad to hear yu enjoyed the recipe.

[marcusscellato]

I love the soup from olive garden.. This is way more better ....Cant wait for more New Soup Recipes

[LadyMeilin]

Thank you!!!! Just finished making this and it was yummy.

[ElAztekaG]

This is the most delicious soup ever!!! Every time I go have dinner at olive gardens I always asked for a second plate of this soup because not only I love it but my son does too.. Now I learned how to cook it and most definitely taste the same!! :) I would give this a thousand likes if possible

[shundakm]

Thanks so much for this recipe my aunt & I love this soup and I cannot wait to give this one a try, you have a very great collection of recipes I love trying, again ty so much for sharing & I do agree with everyone, you are very pretty. Plead keep the recipes coming for us that really enjoy you.

[StephanieManley]

@RockabillyMunster I am glad to hear it turned out well for you.

[juanamezaify]

I made this today for my family and it was a total hit it was delicous thank you cant wait to buy you book

[melissy]

you made it look so good and so easy to I

[joedienger]

I had this soup at olive garden, and loved it! Today I purchased everything to make the soup, now just make it and enjoy

[daisyvicente]

Hi Stephanie, thank you for this recipe! I have made it countless times using your video, to the point I have it memorized. This soup is always a hit with my family! Thank you ❤

[dwoodysplace]

I found this recipe about 5 or 6 years ago on your page. I made it for my husband & his family and they all just loved it.

[StephanieManley]

Nick that Apron was a gift from a friend.

[DonandSteph]

Thanks for sharing your video of Zuppa Toscasa!!!

[maritzacalderon]

Stephanie, thanks for sharing I am definitely gonna make this tomorrow yummmm! Thanks again!!!