Recipe: Appetizing Zuppa Toscana

Zuppa Toscana. If you love the Zuppa Toscana at your local chain Italian restaurant, you will adore this soup. The rich soup is made with Italian sausage, potatoes, cream, and crushed red pepper. This is a clone of the Olive Garden Zuppa Toscana.

Heavy cream is the key to the rich, full-bodied broth--but if you wanted to lighten the soup up a bit, you can replace half of the heavy cream with half-and-half. Zuppa Toscana is a vegetable and bean soup made with kale, zucchini, cannellini beans, potatoes and tomatoes, plus celery, carrots and onion. Historically, most people in the Tuscan countryside would have used affordable seasonal vegetables and beans to make their Zuppa Toscana. You can cook Zuppa Toscana using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Zuppa Toscana

1. You need 2-3 of large potato.
2. Prepare 4 slices of crispy bacon.
3. Prepare 1/3 lb of Italian sausage.
4. Prepare of kale, chopped.
5. You need of ~~ Seasoning ~~.
6. You need 1 Tbsp of White wine.
7. Prepare 1 can of broth (14.5 oz).
8. Prepare 1 cup of half & half or heavy cream.
9. Prepare 1 tsp of maple syrup (optional).
10. You need of salt.
11. You need of pepper.
12. It's of shred cheese (optional).

Transfer to a plate to drain. Zuppa Toscana is Olive Garden's most popular soup. This one-pot, homemade Zuppa Toscana recipe is hearty and loaded with Italian sausage, kale, bacon and potatoes. Some of our most popular recipes are restaurant copycat recipes like Creamy Shrimp Pasta and of course Chicken Madeira!

Zuppa Toscana step by step

1. Prepare crispy bacon and crushed it in the paper towel. Set aside..
2. Peeled and chopped potato then cook them in a pot with cold water, broth, and 1 tsp salt. Bring to boil then continuing cooking for 20 minutes..
3. Meanwhile, stir-fry sausage with white wine in a pan till the color turns brown. Leave sausage on a paper towel to drain extra oil..
4. Discard the white foam on the surface of the soup. Gently break a half of potato in the pot. Stir in sausage and bacon (keep some bacon for later) continuing cooking for 10 minutes..
5. Discard extra grease on the surface of the soup. Add kale and bring the soup to boil. Then stir in half & half and shred cheese. When the soup becomes lightly thick, seasoning with maple syrup, salt, and pepper. Sprinkle extra crispy bacon. Enjoy~~.

You can make it better at home for a fraction of the price! Zuppa Toscana Soup that's Even Better than Olive Garden's! This soup is a regular in my home, it's one of my families favorites! I love that it's so easy to make and it has such an incredible flavor thanks to those hearty bits of sausage. And since Olive Garden's Zuppa Toscana is a family favorite, I thought I'd try making it from scratch instead of calling in a take-out order.