Olive Garden Copycat Zuppa Toscana

From: Chef #912804

On Aug 4, 2008

Love this recipe!!!! But, I made a few changes to come up with a lower calorie, lower fat version: Use hot turkey sausage instead of italian sausage and 1 cup coffee mate non fat dairy creamer instead of the heavy whipping cream. this should be 1751 calories and 55.3 grams fat for the entire recipe or 438 calories and 14 grams of fat per servinig. and it's still very good.

From: Val-entine

On Jul 9, 2008

I found this recipe after my daughter told me how awesome the Olive Garden Soup is and asked me if I could try and make it. I served it with sour dough bread from Panera (no I didn't bake it myself) and it was amazing! I took a co-worker to lunch today for her birthday and ordered it . . I must say this recipe tasted BETTER than Olive Garden! Thanks so much for the recipe!

From: Denise in da Kitchen

On Oct 17, 2004

Well, I guess I should add my rave reviews to all the others. This is AWESOME! My DH swears it is even better than Olive Garden's! I read all 43 review carefully and this is what I did: I used a few more potatoes than called for so it was a little thicker, and I also cut down on the water but used more chicken broth. I cut the kale up into smaller strips and cooked it with the potatoes. I used half sweet sausage and half hot, removed them from their casings, roasted them in the oven then tore them into smaller chuncks. I also precooked the onions and garlic in a little olive oil before adding to the soup. It turned out perfectly! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Cycle Michael for this wonderful soup!

From: sdowney

On Jan 27, 2003

I made this for my father-in-law who loves this soup. It was part of his birthday meal and according to him it really does taste just like the Olive Garden's. I never had the soup before but it was very good. The only thing he suggested was to rough mash a little of the potato to give it a thicker consistency. Other than that he gave it a 5 star rating. Thanks for sharing this recipe.