| 
					
						 Olive Garden Pasta E Fagioli Recipe
 
 Ready in: 30-60 minutes
 
 Serves/Makes:   9 qts
 
    
 Ingredients:
 3 teaspoons Oil
 2 pounds Ground beef
 12 ounces Onion; chopped
 14 ounces Carrots; slivered
 14 ounces Celery; diced
 48 ounces Tomatoes; canned, diced
 2 cups cooked Red Kidney beans
 2 C cooked White kidney beans
 88 ounces Beef stock
 3 teaspoons Oregano
 2 1/2 teaspoons Pepper
 5 teaspoons Parsley; (fresh chopped)
 1 1/2 teaspoon Tabasco sauce
 48 ounces Spaghetti sauce
 8 ounces dry pasta Shell macaroni; or other pasta
 
 
 Directions:
 
 
 
 Preparation: Sauté beef in oil in large 10-qt. pot until beef starts to brown. Add onions, carrots, celery and tomatoes and simmer for about 10 minutes. Drain and rinse beans and add to the pot. Also add beef stock, oregano, pepper, Tabasco, spaghetti sauce, and noodles. Add chopped parsley. Simmer until celery and carrots are tender, about 45 minutes. Makes 9 qts. of soup! **Just cut the recipe in 1/2 for smaller family needs!**  
					
						 _________________ Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell          
                   
					
  
						
					 |