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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.
I already have a feeling we’ll be eating many more bowls of this tasty soup on cold nights all winter long!
Easy 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!
How To Make 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.
I love the way this 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.
Lasagna Soup Ingredients
You’ll need the following ingredients for this recipe:
Soup Ingredients
- hot sausage (Italian sausage may be used as well)
- ground beef
- onions
- garlic
- Italian seasoning
- red pepper flakes
- tomato paste
- diced tomatoes, with garlic
- chicken broth
- salt and pepper
- mafalda pasta, or an alternate curly pasta
Cheese Topping Ingredients
- ricotta cheese
- Parmesan cheesee
- freshly shredded Mozzarellae
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 Recipe
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.
Make Lasagna Soup part of your meal rotation this fall and winter along with 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 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.
Hearty Lasagna Soup
Ingredients
Soup Ingredients
- 1 pound hot sausage (Italian sausage may be used as well)
- 1 pound ground beef
- 2 small onions, chopped into ½" pieces, about 2 cups worth
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 tablespoon Italian seasoning
- ½ – 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 6 ounces tomato paste
- (2) 14.5 ounces cans diced tomatoes, with garlic (fire-roasted tomatoes are great, if you can find them)
- 8 cups chicken broth
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 6-8 ounces mafalda pasta, or an alternate curly pasta
Cheese Topping Ingredients
- 8 ounces ricotta cheese, about 1 cup
- 2 ounces Parmesan cheese, about ½ cup
- 2 ounces 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.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
{originally published 11/11/19 – recipe notes and photos updated 10/9/24}
Delicious! Definitely a keeper! I did make a few changes…I put the diced tomatoes in my ninja to purée them (my kids wouldn’t have done chunks of tomatoes). I added some spinach in my ninja with the tomatoes for more veggies! I used regular sausage instead of spicy and I used only a little of the red pepper flakes. (I have a little one who hates spicy things). I also used dried onion and garlic rather than fresh. It still had a great flavor! All my family loved it and ate every bite!
I’m glad it was a hit for your family and that you could change up the recipe for your tastes, Melissa.
Love trying new recipes and you have alot.
Why thank you, Ruth.
This soup was amazing! I added some fresh rosemary, oregano and basil from my garden and only half a teaspoon of salt in addition to the spices called for in the recipe. I only used Hal a teaspoon of red pepper flakes, but next time I’ll add the whole teaspoon to give it a little kick. I prefer the soup to making the actual lasagna, especially on Christmas Eve. I’ll certainly make it again!
I bet it was fantastic with all of those fresh herbs, Yvonne.
Love making this soup its the best
I’m happy to hear that you’re enjoying the soup, Lisa!
So delicious. I used chicken broth and beef broth, but other than that followed the recipe. It was delicious. Tasted just like lasagna in a hearty soup.
I am so happy you enjoyed it, Juli.
Would you be able to do this in a crockpot?
You could, I have not tested it that way so I am not sure how mushy the noodles might get.
Made this soup and it was delicious. My husband said it look just like lasagna, The cheese blend mixture was creamy. I broke up regular lasagna noodles. As the soup cooled it thickened. will be a regular on my meal rotation.
Could not agree more! I am so delighted you loved it!
This Lasagna soup recipe is amazing! I’ve made it 4 times now and my family always wants me to make it more often!
Unfortunately I can’t add the hot sausage or red peppers (they don’t like the heat) but using sweet mild Italian sausage works just as well!
Worth making, trust me!
Thank you Julie! I am so happy it works for you.
Can this soup be done in a crockpot
You can I would just put the noodles in toward the end so they don’t get completely mushy.
Soooo delicious! Great for a cold day! I’m a cheese girl so I always use extra.
I agree! All the cheeses!
Can I make this meatless with different veggies if so any suggestions
You could certainly try that, Jennifer. I would start by using your favorite vegetables and adjust quantities and seasonings as needed.
This was so delicious I cannot wait to make it again! I made it as written. The cheese mixture really makes it even more special
It sure does, Dede.
This soup was the best soup I made. Can’t wait to make it again
Thank you, Debra.
This soup was so good and pleasantly easy to make that I wanted to take time and comment. Everyone loved it!
I am so glad you did comment, Debbi. Thank you.
Delicious! I used 3 pounds of meat and sausage and 2 28 oz cans of tomatos. Broke up regular lasagna noodles. Amazing taste! I added a little extra seasoning. Took no time to put it together. Will definitely make again!
That does sound delicious, Yaya.
Do you not drain the sausage and beef before continuing?
If there is a ton of grease, yes, you should drain it. However, in my experience, it isn’t usually necessary.
Excellenct recipe. Wondering if anyone had tried also adding a jar of pasta sauce to this recipe.
I don’t think it is needed as the ingredients create a delicious-tasting sauce. But it is up to you, James.
Because I don’t eat pork, will it work if I just substitute more ground beef for the sausage part? Any other suggestions?
Ground beef is perfect, Maria.
Delicious. Easy to make and so good. Thank you so much for the recipe!
I’m so happy to hear that you enjoyed it, Heidi!
This is absolutely the best soup I’ve ever had or made. I found the recipe completely except I added beef broth instead of chicken broth. I have made it twice now. The first time I made it I used broken up lasagna noodles. Yesterday when I made it I used bow tie pasta. The ground beef and ground Italian sausage together really adds to the flavor.
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I’m so happy to hear that you are enjoying the recipe, Helen!