I love Olive Garden! On a cold winter day, there is nothing like a bowl of hot Olive Garden Minestrone Soup! Most of the time when we go to Olive Garden I fill up on soup and take my pasta home for leftovers. It works out perfect! Today we are sharing a Crock Pot Olive Garden Minestrone Soup Recipe that is perfect for those days you really crave Olive Garden but the idea of leaving your house is painful. Don’t worry we know exactly how you are feeling.
There are days you just want to curl up on the couch with a hot bowl of soup and watch a great movie. You don’t want to do your makeup, hair or get dressed in outside clothes. I get it! I feel that way more often than I should admit.
Don’t worry! This Crock Pot Copy Cat Olive Garden Minestrone Soup Recipe is perfect for those days!
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YUM! I love making our favorite restaurant dishes at home!
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Crock Pot Olive Garden Minestrone Soup Recipe
Ingredients needed to make Olive Garden Minestrone Soup
4 cups low-sodium vegetable stock
2 cups water
2 (14.5 oz) cans diced tomatoes
1 cup diced celery (3 stalks)
1 cup diced carrots (2 carrots)
1 cup diced yellow onion (1 small)
2 Tbsp chopped fresh parsley (or 2 tsp dried)
2 tsp dried basil
1 tsp dried oregano
3/4 tsp dried rosemary, crushed
1/2 tsp dried thyme
2 bay leaves
1/2 tsp sugar
Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
1 1/3 cups diced zucchini (1 small)
1 1/3 cups shell pasta
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 (15 oz) can dark red kidney beans, drained and rinsed
1 (15 oz) can white navy beans or cannellini beans, drained and rinsed
2 cups packed chopped fresh spinach
Finely shredded Parmesan cheese
How to make Olive Garden Minestrone Soup
Add vegetable stock, water, tomatoes, celery, carrots, onion, parsley, basil, oregano, thyme, rosemary, bay leaves and sugar to your slow cooker.
Season with salt and pepper to taste and cook on low heat 6 – 8 hours or high 3 – 4 hours.
About 30 -40 minutes before serving add in zucchini, pasta, garlic, kidney beans and white beans and cook on high until pasta is tender. Stir in spinach and Italian green beans and cook several minutes until heated through.
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- 4 cups low-sodium vegetable stock
- 2 cups water
- 2 diced tomatoes 14.5 oz cans
- 1 cup diced celery 3 stalks
- 1 cup diced carrots 2 carrots
- 1 cup diced yellow onion 1 small
- 2 Tbsp chopped fresh parsley or 2 tsp dried
- 2 tsp dried basil
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 3/4 tsp dried rosemary crushed
- 1/2 tsp dried thyme
- 2 bay leaves
- 1/2 tsp sugar
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
- 1 1/3 cups diced zucchini 1 small
- 1 1/3 cups shell pasta
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- 1 dark red kidney beans, drained and rinsed 15 oz can
- 1 white navy beans or cannellini beans, drained and rinsed 15 oz can
- 2 cups packed chopped fresh spinach
- Finely shredded Parmesan cheese
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Add vegetable stock, water, tomatoes, celery, carrots, onion, parsley, basil, oregano, thyme, rosemary, bay leaves and sugar to your slow cooker.
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Season with salt and pepper to taste and cook on low heat 6 - 8 hours or high 3 - 4 hours.
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About 30 -40 minutes before serving add in zucchini, pasta, garlic, kidney beans and white beans and cook on high until pasta is tender.
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Stir in spinach and Italian green beans and cook several minutes until heated through.
Recipe originally posted in October 2015
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Your recipe mentions Italian green beans, but in your list of ingredients they aren’t listed.
It’a auch a gloomy day here in Yakima, that I would love to make this today. Going to have to wait until the kitchen is back together. Another two weeks, ugh!