Zuppa Toscana | Olive Garden Copycat

Zuppa Toscana is such a classic in America and especially in my house. It's so easy to make and it requires only one pot! What!!! Seriously, I love when you only need one pot and don't need to worry about a ton of dishes to wash afterwards because sometime it's hard enough getting dinner on the table, let alone working about washing dishes. This is an Olive Garden copycat and I love to recreate it in my kitchen and make a ton of it. If you want to make your own Zuppa Toscana, just follow the step by step intractable below or watch the video tutorial here:

Ingredients

• 4 slices bacon (chopped thinly)
• 1 lb. hot Italian sausage (take off the casing)
• 1 large onion (chopped thinly)
• 6 large russet potatoes (cubed)
• 3 T chicken bouillon
• 3 cloves garlic (minced)
• Salt and Pepper (to your tasting)
• Red pepper flakes (to your taste)
• 1 T Italian seasoning
• 2 bunches of kale
• 1 C heavy cream
• Parmesan to serve

Tools

• Cuisinart Cast Iron Dutch Oven
• Ladle
• Fish Spatula
• Pyrex Bowl 3 set
• Misc. kitchen utensils

In a large stockpot cook bacon till crispy, take out of stockpot and let cool. I placed it on a paper towel to soak.

After cooking bacon, add sausage (casings removed) and onion and garlic in same stockpot and sauté until sausage is brown. Be sure to break the sausage in smaller pieces with the spatula so it can cook thoroughly and be small bite sized.

Take out sausage, onion and garlic from the pot. I placed it right on top of my bacon from the previous step.

In same stockpot add water enough to cover potatoes, potatoes, bouillon, salt, red pepper flakes, pepper and Italian seasoning and bring to boil. Once at a boil let mixture simmer and cook potatoes till fork tender.

To the pot, add in kale and return the bacon and sausage mixture. Then add cream and continue to simmer for about 10 mins. It will look like there is way too much kale in the mixture, but will all simmer down.

Sever with freshly grated parmesan. Enjoy!

If you prefer a video tutorial, you can watch it here!