This Creamy Tuscan Soup recipe uses kale, Italian sausage, potatoes, heavy cream, and cheese.
This warm and cozy Tuscan Soup is loaded with sausage, kale, and potatoes in a creamy broth. Top it with grated Parmesan cheese and crispy bacon for the best bowl of soup ever.
Everyone has their variation of Olive Garden’s Zuppa Toscana, our family’s take. We love it so much, and it’s one of our go-to dinners whenever we crave a hearty bowl of soup.
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It’s a meal, but I highly recommend adding focaccia breadsticks for dunking as a side dish—just like at the restaurant, except at home!
My family knows how much I love this soup. The Tuscan-inspired version is hearty, warming, comforting, and super flavorful—packed with comfort!
This soup is perfect for making ahead and reheating later! It can be kept in the fridge for up to 4 days or freeze it for 3 months. When you’re ready to enjoy it, heat everything up.
Ingredients for creamy Tuscan soup
- Chopped red onion
- Chopped yellow onion
- Olive oil
- Minced garlic cloves
- Chicken broth
- Peeled and diced red potatoes
- Roughly chopped kale
- Hot Italian sausage
- Heavy whipping cream
- Grated Parmesan cheese or Asiago cheese
- Salt and white pepper
Recipe Tips
How to make creamy Tuscan soup
In a large, heavy-bottomed pan, heat olive oil. Add sausage, onions, and garlic, and cook until the sausage is completely cooked and the onions are tender.
Add broth and potatoes and simmer for 15 minutes over medium heat.
Add kale, heavy whipping cream, and Parmesan, and season with salt and pepper. Then simmer for another 5 minutes.
If you’re craving a hearty, comforting bowl of soup, it doesn’t get much better than this Creamy Tuscan Soup. Restaurant-inspired and so easy to make, it’s worth trying.
Make-Ahead and Freezing Tips:
Make It Ahead: You can whip up this Creamy Tuscan Soup 1-3 days in advance and store it in the fridge!
To Freeze: Make the soup as directed, but hold off on adding the cream, and don’t cook the potatoes until they’re tender. Let the soup cool down, then pop it into a freezer-safe container for up to 3 months. When you’re ready to enjoy it, thaw it overnight in the fridge, reheat it on the stove, cook the potatoes until they’re tender, and then mix in the cream.
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Creamy Tuscan Soup
Ingredients
- 1/2 purple onion chopped
- 1/2 yellow onion chopped
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 3 garlic cloves minced
- 6 cups chicken broth
- 4 cups diced red potatoes skinned
- 3 cups kale roughly chopped
- 1 pound hot Italian sausage
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1/2 cup parmesan or asiago cheese grated + more for topping
- salt & white pepper to taste
Instructions
- In large heavy bottomed pan heat olive oil, add sausage, onions, and garlic and cook until sausage is completely cooked and onions are tender.
- Add broth and potatoes and simmer for 15 minutes over medium heat.
- Add kale, heavy whipping cream, Parmesan and season with salt and pepper. Then simmer for another 5 minutes.
- Remove from heat & serve with more grated cheese and bacon bits if desired.
This tasted better than Olive Garden
LOL! Agreed! xo San
More of a question than a comment, there is no mention of the spicy Italian sausage in the directions.
The directions are incomplete.
Now the directions are all there. Don’t know why or what happened earlier this morning. 🙂 thanks…making this for dinner tonight!!
I made this for the family this past weekend, and we ate it all so fast. This is one of those soups that leaves you feeling like you really ate something!
One of my very favorite kinds of comfort soups!
Oh! Yum! Been craving for this for SO long! Will make this this week!
This looks absolutely delicious! I can’t wait to take a huge bite!
I love these flavors so much! This soup will become our new favorite for sure!
This is the best Tuscan soup! My family is in love with your recipe which we are making very often!
So tasty and incredibly delicious! Those flavors makes this simply irresistible!
This soup is our favorite comfort food! It’s so delicious and so easy.
I really like your soup! Thank you for the great recipe.
Perfect creamy Tuscan soup. Delicious. The Italian sausage makes a big difference. Fantastic pictures and instructions. Thanks for sharing.
This is the best looking tuscan soup I have ever seen! I will be making it this weekend!
My kind of comfort food! That is definitely a must make!
Was recovering from knee replacements and my daughter made this for me! Wow is it good! Have been craving it ever since!
I am glad you have recovered and hope you continue to heal. So happy your daughter made this for you.
Really good and simple! I didn’t have enough potatoes so i added a can of cannellini beans and used arugula instead of kale, because that is what i had on hand. I added some crushed red pepper too because all i had on hand was sweet Italian sausage. I will Definitely make this again!
Looks comforting and delicious! Can’t wait to make this!
Creamy Tuscan soup is my new obsession! The creamy texture and the blend of flavors—it’s like a taste of Italy in a bowl.
Can it be frozen
Yes, but ideally not with the tortellini in it, the noddles, if not defrosted properly can fall apart – so I would make the base of the soup and freeze it, then add the tortellini before serving.
Made this soup and used spinach rather than kale! Man.. Killer stuff. Definitely saving this recipe. Hard to believe as easy as it was, it is this good. Even has residual smokey notes. Highly recommend.
Thank you for the delicious recipe! Was feeling a little under the weather so I made it today and it was just what I needed. I only had mild Italian sausages so I added lots of red pepper flakes and it was so good, really appreciated the extra notes on the sausage and seasoning. Keeping this one in my recipe book right next to my great grandmas minestrone. Thanks again.
Hope you are feeling better!