RECIPE FOR 50 RECIPES

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 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! Find more of my Olive Garden copycat recipes here.  Source: Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 2 by Todd Wilbur.

Provided by Todd Wilbur

Total Time 1 hours 25 minutes0S

Prep Time 42 minutes30S

Cook Time 42 minutes30S

Number Of Ingredients 17

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Nutrition Facts : Calories 400 calories

You can't go wrong with a good apple crumble recipe and this one, from School Dinners, has a lovely, golden oaty topping

Total Time 50 minutes

Yield 2

Number Of Ingredients 6

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Nutrition Facts : Calories 443 calories, FatContent 16.3 g fat, SaturatedFatContent 8.9 g saturated fat, ProteinContent 4.7 g protein, CarbohydrateContent 76.4 g carbohydrate, SugarContent 55.2 g sugar, SodiumContent 0 g salt, FiberContent 6.2 g fibre