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Hearty Lasagna Soup

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Hearty Lasagna Soup is everything you love about lasagna ... but as a delicious soup! It is a comfort food classic with a sweet sauce, scrumptious lasagna noodles, and Italian sausage with the most scrumptious ricotta, parmesan, and mozzarella cheese mixture!
5 from 4 votes
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Course Soup
Servings 6 servings

Equipment

  • 1 Large soup pot or Dutch oven
  • 1 Medium bowl

Ingredients
  

Lasagna Soup

  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 large onion , chopped
  • 1 lb hot Italian sausage (casings removed) , substitutions: use turkey sausage OR ground beef plus 2 tbsp Italian seasoning
  • 6 cloves garlic , minced
  • 1 6-oz can tomato paste
  • 1 28 oz can diced tomatoes
  • 4 cups water
  • 2 15 oz cans chicken broth
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • ¼ tsp salt , to preferred taste
  • ¼ tsp pepper , to preferred taste
  • 1 box lasagna noodles , broken into 1½ inch pieces (OR substitute for a 16 oz bag of bowtie pasta)

Cheese Mixture

  • ¾ cup ricotta cheese , (substitute for part-skim ricotta cheese)
  • ½ cup mozzarella cheese , shredded
  • 2 tbsp Parmesan cheese , grated

Garnish

  • 2 tbsp fresh chopped basil , optional

Instructions
 

  • Heat oil in a large soup pot or Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add onion and cook until softened. Move the onions to one side of the pot and add the sausage to the other side to cook until browned and no longer pink. Mix together with the onions then add the garlic and tomato paste - cook for another 3 minutes. Stir in the tomatoes, water, broth, sugar, salt, and pepper - bring to a boil cooking over high heat.
    Add broken lasagna noodles, stirring occasionally for about 10 minutes.
    Reduce temperature to low and allow soup to simmer for about 15 to 20 minutes or until the noodles have fully cooked.
  • Cheese Mixture:
    In a medium bowl, combine the ricotta, mozzarella, and Parmesan cheese and stir well. Set aside and refrigerate until you are ready to serve the soup.
  • When serving, add soup to individual bowls and then top each bowl with the ricotta mixture. Sprinkle with chopped basil over the top.

Notes

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