Lasagna Soup

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With spicy sausage, tender noodles, and a melty cheese topping, this Lasagna Soup recipe has all your favorite Italian ingredients simmered together in one pot.

A steaming hot bowl of Lasagna Soup makes everybody happy at dinnertime.

Lasagna Soup is a cold weather favorite - get the recipe at barefeetinthekitchen.com

Soup season is in full swing and I couldn’t be more excited. Since we moved to Ohio, I’ve been looking forward to meals full of all my favorite Soups and Stews as the temperatures drop.

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I already have a feeling we’ll be eating many more bowls of this tasty soup on cold nights all winter long!

What is Lasagna Soup?

Lasagna soup is everything you love about a classic Italian lasagna simmered in soup form. My family loves lasagna with lots of meat in it, so I used both hot sausage and ground beef in this soup.

After browning the meat, I added onions, garlic, and tomatoes along with Italian Seasoning. After simmering everything in chicken broth and adding curly mafalda noodles, the soup finishes with the best ingredient of all: lots of cheese.

For the cheese topping, I use a blend of three different kinds of Italian cheeses. The mix of Ricotta, Parmesan, and Mozzarella cheese adds rich, creamy flavors to this soup.

A big scoop of the cheese topping on my bowl of soup made me very happy indeed. Every spoonful of soup was full of tangy tomato, hot sausage, perfectly cooked noodles, and gooey cheese.

Everyone in my family loves this Lasagna Soup. Most of us went back for a second bowl!

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Easy Lasagna Soup

Perhaps the best thing about this delicious Italian soup is how easy it is. Sometimes you want lasagna without all the steps of boiling noodles, browning the meat and placing everything layer by layer in a casserole dish.

The noodles in this soup cook right in the pot with the other ingredients, so this recipe will save you both cooking and clean up time. Who wants to be stuck in the kitchen doing dishes when you could be digging into a big bowl of delicious soup?

You can make this soup ahead of time, too! Follow all the directions up to adding the noodles and store in an airtight container in the fridge or freezer.

Once ready to serve, bring the soup to a simmer again, add the noodles and cook until tender. Waiting to add the noodles if you prep the soup in advance ensures that they won’t get mushy.

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I love the way my Homemade Italian Seasoning tastes in this recipe, but your favorite store-bought Italian herb blend will work beautifully as well. If you like a spicier soup, feel free to increase the amount of red pepper in the recipe.

Likewise, if you want a little less heat, reduce the red pepper flakes by as much as you like. We all loved the taste of hot Italian sausage in this Lasagna Soup recipe but other types of sausage would likely taste good too.

If you find yourself with extra tomato paste here are some tip for freezing your leftovers.

Mafalda Noodles

What are Mafalda noodles? They’re a miniature flat noodle with curvy edges, just like a miniature lasagna noodle.

These small Mafalda noodles are absolutely perfect in Lasagna Soup, and these longer Mafalda noodles caught my eye when I was buying the others and now I can’t wait to try them too.

Using these flat curvy noodles really makes this soup feel like a spin on lasagna. If you can’t find Mafalda noodles, pretty much any curly noodle will work in the Lasagna Soup recipe. Play with it and make it your own.

Lasagna Soup is a hearty dinner that gets cheers whenever we make it!

Lasagna Soup Recipe

  1. In a large soup pot or Dutch oven, cook and crumble the sausage and ground beef over medium-high heat. Add the onions and the garlic to cook along with the meat. Sprinkle with Italian seasonings and red pepper flakes as everything cooks.
  2. Add the tomato paste, diced tomatoes, chicken broth, salt, and pepper. Stir and increase heat to high. When soup begins to simmer, reduce to medium-high once again and add the pasta. Stir and simmer until noodles are soft, 8-10 minutes. Taste the broth and adjust spices as needed.
  3. Remove from the heat when the noodles are tender but still chewy. While the pasta is cooking, stir together the ricotta, Parmesan, and Mozzarella in a small bowl.
  4. Scoop the soup into bowls and top with a generous scoop of the cheese mixture.
Lasagna Soup is filled with hearty chunks of beef, sausage, and tender noodles in a rich Italian spiced broth. Get the recipe at barefeetinthekitchen.com

Soup Recipes

Make Lasagna Soup part of your meal rotation this fall and winter along with Italian Sausage and Vegetable Soup and this Hearty Minestrone Soup. Served with slices of crusty Italian bread, this soup is guaranteed to warm you on a cold night!

Looking for even more filling soup recipes for winter? If you like this Lasagna Soup recipe, you’re also sure to love Italian Herb Meatball Soup and Creamy Turkey Noodle Soup.

If you love Italian meals, check out my Spicy Italian Stuffed Bell Peppers. It’s one of my family’s all time favorite meals and inspired this {Slow-Cooker} Stuffed Pepper Soup.

I’m also looking forward to trying this One Pot Beef Stroganoff Soup posted by Belly Full!

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Everything you love about classic lasagna in a hearty bowl of soup! get the recipe at barefeetinthekitchen.com

Hearty Lasagna Soup

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Hearty rich lasagna soup is a cold-weather favorite.
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Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 45 minutes
Total Time: 55 minutes
Servings: 10 servings

Ingredients 

Soup Ingredients

  • 1 lb hot sausage (Italian sausage may be used as well)
  • 1 lb ground beef
  • 2 small onions, chopped into 1/2" pieces, about 2 cups worth
  • 4 cloves garlic, minced
  • 2 tbsp Italian seasoning
  • ½ – 1 tsp crushed red pepper flakes
  • 6 oz tomato paste
  • (2) 14.5 oz cans diced tomatoes, with garlic (fire-roasted tomatoes are great, if you can find them)
  • 8 cups chicken broth
  • 1 tsp kosher salt
  • 1/2 tsp freshly ground black pepper
  • 6-8 oz mafalda pasta, or an alternate curly pasta

Cheese Topping Ingredients

  • 8 oz ricotta cheese, about 1 cup
  • 2 oz Parmesan cheese, about ½ cup
  • 2 oz freshly shredded Mozzarella, about ½ cup

Instructions

  • In a large soup pot or Dutch oven, cook and crumble the sausage and ground beef over medium-high heat. Add the onions and the garlic to cook along with the meat. Sprinkle with Italian seasonings and red pepper flakes as everything cooks.
  • Add the tomato paste, diced tomatoes, chicken broth, salt, and pepper. Stir and increase heat to high. When soup begins to simmer, reduce to medium-high once again and add the pasta. Stir and simmer until noodles are soft, 8-10 minutes. Taste the broth and adjust spices as needed.
  • Remove from the heat when the noodles are tender, but still chewy. While the pasta is cooking, stir together the ricotta, Parmesan, and Mozzarella in a small bowl.
  • Scoop the soup into bowls and top with a generous scoop of the cheese mixture. Enjoy!

Nutrition

Calories: 438kcal · Carbohydrates: 22g · Protein: 25g · Fat: 28g · Saturated Fat: 11g · Cholesterol: 85mg · Sodium: 1598mg · Potassium: 668mg · Fiber: 2g · Sugar: 4g · Vitamin A: 770IU · Vitamin C: 19mg · Calcium: 209mg · Iron: 3mg
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{originally published 11/11/19 – recipe notes and photos updated 10/27/21}

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  1. Daniel Burdick says

    I made this soup fora family lasagna cookoff challenge and retained the wooden spoon award for best dish. Everyone loved it. Thanks for the great recipe. Will be making it again.5 stars

  2. Tanice says

    This goes onto my favourite/regular soup list! Awesome dish for sure! I used gluten free noodles and I broke up the noodles on the edge of the cutting board and snapped off in 1” strips so every noodle had that curly edge, and bite size 🥰5 stars

    • Mary Younkin says

      Hi, Nichole! I’m not sure how using cottage cheese would turn out, but you can just omit the ricotta in this recipe. It’s not necessary to make the cheese topping.

    • Mary Younkin says

      You likely could, Heidi, however I haven’t tested it that way. You’ll want to wait and add the pasta at the very end though, right before serving it.

  3. Deb says

    Loved this soup and so did everyone else!! Added a lot more tomato paste cuz it seemed too runny. Less of the red pepper flakes which was plenty of heat! Topped it with cottage cheese and had garlic knots from Walmart. This was excellent!! Found the pasta at Festival but bet it would be at pick n save also.5 stars

  4. cheryl menzel says

    It did have great flavor but I found it to be too much liquid , not enough noodles, and too much Italian seasonings2 stars

  5. Tracy Simmons says

    can the cooked ingredients be added to a crock pot to finish cooking? mom needs to fold clothe, change the baby.

    • Mary Younkin says

      I don’t know why not, Tracy. Just don’t add the pasta to the crock-pot. You can simmer the rest of it as long as you like. Just add cooked pasta to the soup at the end OR place warm pasta in each bowl and scoop the soup over it.

  6. Tiffany says

    Made this tonight since it’s been cold and windy and turned out great! I did add a second can of tomato paste after reading the comments and it was great. I just broke up lasagna noodles for it. As for the cheese picture we were thinking about adding it in the pot but decided to try it first just in our bowls. This was delicious!5 stars

  7. Katie says

    I mistakenly used fired roasted diced tomatoes so it was over powering with Italian seasoning. 😟😟😟 but MY fault. I diluted with water before anyone ate and they all liked it! I also used regular flat lasagna noodles and broke into pieces. Worked well!5 stars