Steps to Prepare Award-winning Pasta E Fagioli - Slow Cooker

Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, pasta e fagioli - slow cooker. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

This slow cooker pasta e fagioli starts with a pound of dried pinto beans (great northern beans work well too) and a flavorful broth. The dish can be made with or without meat, and you'll often see American adaptations made with ground beef. We prefer pancetta — the salty, dry cured Italian ham. Who else loves the Pasta E Fagioli Soup from Olive Garden?!

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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook pasta e fagioli - slow cooker using 15 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Pasta E Fagioli - Slow Cooker:

1. Make ready 1 tbsp. olive oil
2. Prepare 1 lb. ground Italian sausage
3. Prepare 1/2 yellow onion, finely diced
4. Make ready 2 large carrots, peeled and diced
5. Make ready 2 stalks celery, diced
6. Prepare 4 cloves garlic, minced
7. Take 1 can (28 oz.) unsalted crushed tomatoes
8. Get 3 cups unsalted beef broth
9. Make ready 1 can (15 oz.) unsalted cannellini beans, drained & rinsed
10. Make ready 1 can (15 oz.) unsalted light red kidney beans, drained & rinsed
11. Make ready 1 1/2 tsp. dried basil
12. Get 3/4 tsp. salt
13. Get 1/2 tsp. each dried oregano, pepper
14. Make ready 1 cup ditalini pasta
15. Take 1/2 cup freshly grated parmesan cheese + more for topping

Slow Cooker Pasta E Fagioli is a lightened up and hearty stick-to-your-ribs soup. A healthy copycat recipe for Olive Garden's Pasta e Fagioli. Olive Garden Pasta e Fagioli Soup Copycat Recipe - This Pasta e Fagioli Soup is one of my favorite soups! It's on heavy rotation at my house because we all love it so much!

Steps to make Pasta E Fagioli - Slow Cooker:

1. In a large skillet, heat the oil over medium-high heat. Once it's hot, add the sausage and cook until its browned throughout, breaking it up as you go. Once its browned, place it on a towel lined plate to drain off some of the grease and set it aside.
2. Grease your slow cooker, then add the sausage, onion, celery, carrot, garlic, rinsed beans, crushed tomatoes, broth and seasonings. Give it all a good stir, then pop the lid on and set the heat to low for 5-6 hours.
3. Once the soup is ready to eat, heat a large pot of salted water to a boil. Cook the ditalini pasta according to package directions, then drain and stir it along with the 1/2 cup grated parmesan into the soup. Then taste the soup and add any additional seasonings you think it needs. That's it!

Olive Garden Pasta e Fagioli Soup Copycat Recipe - This Pasta e Fagioli Soup is one of my favorite soups! It's on heavy rotation at my house because we all love it so much! This slow cooker version is just like what you'd get at your favorite Italian restaurant (not to mention cheaper). This delicious slow cooker soup comes from Canadian Living. I've made it a couple of times and it tastes better each time I make it.

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