Blackstone Pasta e Fagioli ( Better than Olive Garden Copycat)

Pasta e Fagioli (Olive Garden Copycat)

1 Lb Lean Ground Beef or Ground Italian Sausage
1 cup Carrots, diced
1 cup Onion, diced
1 cup Celery, diced
1 TBL minced Garlic
15 oz Diced Tomatoes (or 5 fresh diced tomatoes)
15 oz Tomato Sauce
3 cups Broth (Italian chicken or beef)
15 oz Great Northern Beans, drained and rinsed
15 oz Kidney Beans, drained and rinsed
2 cups Pasta of your choice, cooked
1 TBL Italian Seasoning
1 tsp Salt, to taste
1 tsp Black Pepper, to taste
1/2 cup Fresh Grated Parmesan

Place 3 cups of broth and can of tomato sauce into a large soup pot on your Blackstone.
Place your ground meat on Blackstone griddle begin to cook by chopping and flipping ground meat as necessary.
Oil griddle place celery, carrots, and onion on griddle. Chop and flip to cook remember to use a separate spatula from the meat.
Place tomatoes on griddle to lightly heat up.
Add Italian seasoning, salt, and pepper to meat.
Throw both cans of beans onto griddle to lightly heat.
Add fresh cheese to soup pot along with pre-cooked pasta.
Add minced garlic to sausage toss to incorporate.
Once meat has cooked through, and all the veggies are sufficiently warm, mix them all together and add to the soup pot.
Move soup pot to the hottest part of the griddle, and serve when it has thoroughly and evenly heated throughout, and the flavors have incorporated together.
Top with fresh Parmesan after dishing in soup bowl.

Hey everybody welcome back to dinner and a tip my name is Brenda I’m going to be your cooking guide if you haven’t already please help me out and subscribe so I apologize I have been out for the last 10 days with a man cold and I have

Not been able to cook at all my husband was lucky enough to get to Mom cold so he manned up and was taking care of everything but now that we’re feeling better still want some comfort food so we are going to do a pasta vour

Um kind of like a copycat of what they Olive Garden is but we’re going to do a couple changes to make it a little bit better so first of all we’re going to start with our broth and I’m actually going to do the better than Boolean Italian you can

Certainly do a chicken but I’m a big fan if I can get any extra flavors in I’m a big fan of of doing that whenever I can we’re going to go ahead and get this started so I’ve got three cups of this and then I’m going to do just one

Can of tomato sauage just like the regular small can so I’m going to get that started and then we’re going to work on our sausage and our vegetables so um I doing Italian sausage I know Olive Garden does it with hamburger um this is kind of like a more spicy

Sausage that I’m using today um so you could either go sausage hamburger or you could actually make this meatless if you would like it’s still going to taste great so next I’m going to go ahead and get our sausage started and then we’re going to work on our vegetables remember when you’re working

With meat and then you’re working with vegetables definitely swap out your tools next I’m going to go ahead and do I’ve got one cup of carrots one cup of onions one cup of celery and I’m just going to go ahead and stick that in the

Oil and we’re going to go ahead and get these guys softened up up oh so excited for soup and I know I get a lot of people saying why the hell are you making soup on this gril just because you can doesn’t mean you should well I’m

A big believer if I can why shouldn’t I so and know my stove is working but it’s clean it’s been the cleanest it’s ever been because I’m outside cooking all the time so so to answer those questions that’s why I do it but there are plenty of people

Remodeling their houses or the stove isn’t working for some reason that day so or if you like camping this is just a great option I’m like I’m doing a lot less dishes because of this so next you can do either one pan of diced tomatoes I opted I’ve got some end

Of life Tomatoes coming up so so I figured I’m just going to do fresh today I’m just going to go ahead and throw those down and give them a quick cook so the pasta I’m doing this is rigatoni it’s a little thicker than what um Olive Garden has but I wasn’t able to

Find what they use um you could use any kind of pasta cells honestly so all Right here we go so we’re just basically getting all of these warmed up and then we’re going to throw them in our soup while the sausage Cooks next for the sausage I’m going to do a tablespoon of dry Italian seasoning you could certainly add fresh if you would

Like and then I’m also going to go ahead and hit this with some salt and pepper and then we are going to heat up our beans next so for that I’m just doing one can of red beans and one can of white beans this one definitely drain the juices that are inside for

These all right our vegetables are cooking down I’m just going to go ahead and throw our beans on the grill you could certainly just throw them in a pot too but this way I know they’re getting heated up all the way right away we’re getting a

Little oil on this and then I’m also going to go ahead and this is about a half a cup with maybe a little bit more of fresh grated Parmesan my noodles aren’t actually cold so I’m going to go ahead and throw these in here too while we’re working on everything Else and then I’m going to do tablespoon of garlic we’ll just go ahead and throw this in with a sausage or wherever you’d like right you could also if you wanted to do sausage you could do like a Jimmy beans breakfast sausage you could do like the hot spicy stuff if you’re

Looking for a little bit more of a kick this is again better than Olive Garden so throw an extra flavor throw an extra taste our sausage is just about cooked here and our tomatoes are nice and cooked as well all right going to start mixing all of our stuff

Together take our beans make sure those are nice and warm especially if you’re like cooking this outside and plan on serving it outside that’s way it’ll take a little bit of time to cook heat everything up in there so this is why I like just kind of cooking everything outside and just

Throwing it in and know that I’m good to go love smelling all those Italian seasonings and the garlic now that I can actually smell and taste again hope you guys are actually staying healthy this time of year seems a lot of stuff been going around all right well that is just

Finishing off let’s go ahead and start loading clean up our soup and for the noodles I did about two cups of cooked noodles for this all right so I looked up the price of this soup at the Olive Garden which is $8 for one bowl of soup granted they come with those

Amazing bread sticks and now that I’m thinking about that’s the one thing I forgot I was going to bring out some bread stuffs and heat up on the black stone so I’m just going to go ahead and slide this over to the hottest part of my

Grill oh this looks so good you guys are going to be so impressed with this one and I’m impressed that my again my oven is staying clean because I’m always out here cooking all right and I’m just going to go ahead and top it with some our fresh

Parmesan just like you would get at the OG all right take a look at that I do have to agree I actually like the sausage better with this gives it an extra little kick but if you’re traditional just go ahead and stick with the hamburger thanks for joining me thanks for subscribing hope

You guys are all well