Menu Description: "White and red beans, ground beef, tomatoes and pasta in a savory broth."



It's amazing how many lousy clone recipes for this delicious chili-like soup are floating around. Cooking message boards, and questionable sites that claim to have "actual restaurant recipes" have for years passed off numerous versions that disappoint home chefs. Other formulas for this pasta e fagioli soup leave out major ingredients that you can clearly see in the real thing, like the carrots, or ground beef, or two kinds of beans. Others don't even get the pasta right—it's clearly ditalini pasta, which are short little tubes. If you want the taste of Olive Garden's famous Pasta e Fagioli at home, this may be the only recipe that will live up to a side-by-side taste test. Beware of imitation imitations! Try this Olive Garden Pasta e Fagioli Recipe today.



Source: Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 2 by Todd Wilbur.