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This Zuppa Toscana copycat recipe is budget-friendly, incredibly easy to make, and tastes a million times better than the original!

Zuppa Toscana Soup

This Zuppa Toscana copycat recipe is budget-friendly, incredibly easy to make, and tastes a million times better than the original!
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Servings 6
Author Parenting Chaos

Ingredients

  • 4 slices of Bacon diced
  • 1 pound Spicy Italian Sausage
  • 2 Cloves of Garlic whole
  • 1 Onion diced
  • 1/4 Bunch of Kale
  • 3 Potatoes diced
  • 1½ tsp Crushed Red Peppers
  • 5 Anise Stars
  • 1 cup Heavy Cream
  • 5 cubes of Chicken Bouillon
  • 11 cups of Water

Instructions

  1. Sauté Italian sausage and crushed red pepper in a large pot. Drain excess fat, refrigerate while you prepare other ingredients.
  2. In the same pan, sauté bacon, onions and garlic over low-medium heat for approximately 15 mins. or until the garlic and onions are soft.
  3. Add chicken bouillon and water to the pot and heat until it starts to boil.
  4. Add the diced potatoes and cook until soft.
  5. Add the heavy cream and just cook until thoroughly heated.
  6. In another pot boil 1 cup of water and the Anise Stars. Steep into the main pot of soup.
  7. Stir in the sausage and the kale, let all heat through and serve. Delicious!

Recipe Notes

If you don't want the spice skip adding in the crushed red peppers to the soup. If you don't like rich soups, skip adding the Anise.

Adapted from Olive Garden