This is a straightforward and uncomplicated new potato side dish. The butter sauce has a little onion flavor and is opaque and smooth.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 50 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 5 mins |
| Servings: | 6 |
Ingredients
- 1 (16 ounce) package smoked sausage
- 6 slices bacon
- ¾ cup chopped onion
- 1 ½ teaspoons minced garlic
- 1 quart water
- 2 tablespoons chicken soup base
- 2 potatoes, cut into 1/4-inch slices
- 2 cups kale – washed, dried, and shredded
- ⅓ cup heavy whipping cream
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).
- Place sausage links onto a sheet pan and bake for 25 minutes, or until done. Cut links in half lengthwise, then cut at an angle into 1/2-inch slices.
- Place bacon and onion in a large saucepan and cook over medium heat until onion is almost clear. Remove bacon and crumble. Set aside.
- Add garlic into the pan with onion and cook together, about 1 minute. Add water, chicken soup base, and potatoes, simmer 15 minutes.
- Add crumbled bacon, sausage, kale, and cream. Simmer, about 5 minutes, and serve.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 380 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 21 g |
| Cholesterol | 78 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 17 g |
| Saturated Fat | 10 g |
| Sodium | 1904 mg |
| Sugars | 4 g |
| Fat | 25 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
This is a great soup! I went to make a second batch but the cream went bad, so I substituted a can on Cream Of Mushroom. Fantastic!!!
This is so delicious! My husband begs me to make it!!!
This is a family favorite for us and I’ve made many times. I’ve switched up the style of sausage (kids like kielbasa, ground Italian is best), and the style of potatoes (sweet potatoes not so good), sometimes no bacon, spinach is better than bitter kale, fat free half n half works great to make it creamy, increase water and garlic, 2 carmelized onions. I don’t follow all the complicated steps (it just takes too long!) but simplify.
It’s a wonderful soup recipe. It’s a warm and flavorful recipe that’s easy to prepare. I added my personal touch and used a little Cajun seasoning. I forgot the bacon…adding it tomorrow It snowed and I made this❤️
It’s OK, but it’s not Toscana. Replace the smoked sausage links with ground spicy Italian sausage and you’ll be much closer to that Toscana flavor.
Awesome! If you told me it came from a famous italian restaurant chain I would have been none the wiser. Well worth the time to cook it. Only suggestion is I think about half the sausage would suffice. I like meat but that was a little over the top for the volume of soup you make. Extra kale is a plus too :). I can’t even open the container without one of my dogs running up to me and sitting there in expectation of a taste of it
This is the second time I made the soup.. First time I made it exactly as the recipe called for except I used Sicilian hot sausage. This time I did the same except that I doubled the sausage, kale and heavy whipping cream because I wanted it to be hearty.. I removed the skins from the Sicilian hot sausage, broke it up and browned it in the pan. Added my onion and then garlic once it was almost cooked through and poured it all into pot with potatoes. It gives it an excellent flavor. Slightly spicy.. Yummy!
Awesome recipe; I used ground sweet Italian sausage instead; next time I’ll use low sodium chicken broth as the chicken base I used made it very salty; but the extra potatoes I added helped; used evaporated milk and some butter instead of whipping cream. My husband loved it and he’s
I’ve never had the soup from the “popular restaurant”, but this soup is awesome! my family loved it. including my cat, whom I caught eating what little was left from my youngest child’s bowl! 5/5 would recommend!
The only thing I will change the next time is the potatoes. I will cube them not slicing as they cooked up in a shorter amount of time. Other than that it was really great. It will be made here again!
It was DELICIOUS! Only thing missing…the bread sticks. Will definitely make again.
I make a couple changes … I use Mike Italian sausage and Spunach.
My husband loved this soup, and kept talking about it!! We wondered if we would like the kale and thought about using spinach instead, but tried it with the kale; it was delicious! I did cook it a few more minutes to soften it.
Made it exactly as the recipe states. We never go to Olive Garden, so my family isn’t familiar with the soup. However, it was a big hit – very delicious. Next time I will double the recipe, maybe triple and have some in the freezer.
This is one of my favorites at Olive Garden. This recipe is close and good. I believe the Gardens recipe is not smoked sausage but Italian crumbled very fine, casings removed. I tried this recipe with a smoked sausage and it was a different flavor from the Gardens. Also the Gardens potatoes are diced very fine as well. So the flavor is slightly different as well as texture. Doing our own thing is perfectly fine as long as we love it. That is all that matters!
I made it with 8 cups water and followed the directions on my chicken soup base directions.
love this soup made a few changes.used yukon gold potatoes and low fat half and half added lots of kale.came out great
My family calls it happy soup. It’s one of my favorite things to eat! I use ground turkey sausage (hot) and WAY more heavy whipping cream and kale than the recipe calls for, goya chicken bouillon packs and red pepper flakes to spice it up. If you use the pork sausage or bacon no matter what it tends to come out a little greasy. This soup is the definition of comfort food and (if there’s any left) ALWAYS tastes better the next day!
I’m obsessed with this soup!! It’s my all time favorite and this recipe tastes exactly like the real deal! Plus, I like making it myself rather than getting it at a restaurant because you know the ingredients are fresh and you can make it your own. I like to try it with a different type of sausage every time I make it.
I would cook the bacon separately and make it really crispy, I didn’t like cooking in a pan with onions, I could make it crispy enough.
This is nothing like the restaurant version at all. This was a greasy disaster when I tried it. They (OG) do not use smoked sausage, they use hot Italian sausage, there are 4 more steps that are missing from the recipe & the video, that take place with this recipe in the restaurant. How do I know you ask?? My best friend is a Chef at OG and taught me how to make it. I’ll be posting my own recipe soon – this recipe has been shortcutted to the point of misery. Chicken bouillon cubes – OMG, nasty!