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Try out this Olive Garden Pasta Fagioli Soup Recipe tonight. It's so delicious and easy to cook in your slow cooker!
Olive Garden Pasta Fagioli Soup Recipe – You Can Make It in Your Slow Cooker!
Have I mentioned lately I love my Mrs. Potts slow cooker?
I don't know about you, but our afternoon schedule consistently keeps changing and if it weren't for her doing the cooking at least one night a week I'm pretty sure we'd rarely manage a real meal around here. Thankfully all I have to do is throw in the ingredients in the morning, and she finishes up the work for me throughout the day!
When a friend of mine shared this Olive Garden Pasta Fagioli Soup recipe with me,  I couldn't wait to try it.  It makes a ton of soup (seriously ~ my large crockpot was filled to the brim last night), so you can easily make a batch up now, enjoy leftovers later this week, and still have some to pop in your freezer for another busy night. (Success!)
(And, if you really want to treat your family, try out these copycat Olive Garden Breadsticks too. How ADORABLE is Reagan in this photo. She was just about to lose her first baby tooth. So glad to have this picture years later!)
 
Olive Garden Pasta Fagioli Soup (For the Slow Cooker)
Ingredients
- 2 lbs Ground beef
- 1 Onion
- 3 Carrots
- 4 stalks celery
- 2 28 oz Diced tomatoes
- 16 oz Red kidney beans, canned Rinsed and drained
- 15 oz White kidney beans, canned Rinsed and drained
- 30 oz Beef Stock
- 3 tsp Oregano
- 2 tsp Pepper
- 5 tsp Parsley
- 1 tsp Tabasco sauce Optional
- 20 oz. Spaghetti sauce, Jarred
- 8 oz Pasta
Instructions
- Brown ground beef.
- Drain fat from beef and add to the slow cooker with everything except the pasta.
- Cook on low 7-8 hours or high 4-5 hours.
- Add pasta and cook an additional 30 minutes on high or 45 minutes on low.
- Sprinkle with parmesan cheese (we love the DiGiorno brand) and enjoy!
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Hello. I’m thinking of making this recipe without meat. How long would you recommend in the slow cooker?
Thank you.
Hi Suzi! I would still cook about the same time because the meat is browned before you cook (and that way all the veggies will have plenty of time to cook.) Hope that helps!
HOW MUCH IS A SERVING? AND WHAT IS THE CALORIE COUNT??
Hi Julie, it’s a pretty big pot but it depends on if you are serving adults and kids and if you include anything else with it. I would say an average of 8 but will feed more with sides. We actually don’t have the calorie count figured out, I’m sorry!!
I make this recipe quite often. I use ditalini pasta.It is tiny tube pasta.
So good to know Sally ~ thanks a bunch for sharing! 🙂
I cannot find ditalini pasta. Best place to find??
Kroger has it—Kroger brand.
What size crock pot do you use? I am at a loss-I bought all the ingredients but looking at my crock pot it’s not going to fit!
Hi Lana! I use just the big round one – I think it’s probably a 6 quart one Lana? This makes a LOT of soup so you definitely need a larger crockpot – but you could easily half the recipe as well! Hope that helps (wish I’d seen this comment sooner!)
I use my crock pot!
Can anyone help me by telling me where I can find these dishes? Their absolutely beautiful!
I was wondering if you cook the pasta first also?
Sorry Lynne and Kim! You don’t have to cook the pasta ahead of time – it will cook in the slow cooker. Hope that helps!
sounds delicious
While reading the bread stick recipe it suddenly disappeared!
Do you cook the pasta before putting it in??
No
Hi Laurie,
I want to make the Pasta Fagioli soup… This recipie that is on your site how many servings is it???I will be having 13 guests… Please help me??
13 adults Helen? It does make a lot, but if you’re serving this by itself you *might* want to double it. If you’re serving it with salad though and garlic bread, I’m betting one pot will be plenty – it fills up my round (bigger) crockpot! Hope that helps some 🙂
Slow cooker recipe sounds delicious n would love to receive any additional ones. Thank you Karin
Wow!! You’re quick!! Thanks!! Will try this!!!
I usually am at the computer working whenever my kids are at school so I’m off when they’re home 🙂 Hope you all enjoy it!
Hello Laurie!! This sounds so yummy to make!! I have a question for you, what kind of pasta do you buy/use to make this kind of soup? I have a hard time finding the pasta to make something like this!! That is why I just buy the Hurst’s PastaBeens brand b/c they already have the little noodles in there!! Thanks!!
Hi Bonnie! I just used bowtie pasta because that was what was in my pantry, but you could also use ziti, or even corkscrew pasta. Any shorter past should work ~ hope that helps!