Instant Pot Olive Garden Zuppa Toscana (Italian Soup)
Instant Pot Olive Garden Zuppa Toscana (Italian Soup) tastes just like the famous soup you get at the restaurant, but is on your table in less than 30 minutes.
Place trivet and basket inside pressure cooker cooking pot.
Place bacon into the crisping basket. Place lid on Instant Pot and cook at 400 degrees until bacon is crisp.
Remove bacon to paper towel lined plate and set aside.
Cook Bacon - In the Instant Pot Cooking Pot
Select the Sauté or Browning function on your pressure cooker and allow to heat. Add bacon to the cooking pot and cook until crisp
Remove bacon to paper towel lined plate and set aside.
Preparing the Soup
Add onions to the cooking pot and sauté in the left behind bacon grease, for about 3 minutes.
Add sausage, breaking up into pieces and sauté until browned, about 2 minutes.
Add garlic to cooking pot and give it a good mix through.
Turn off Instant Pot or Pressure Cooker.
Add chicken broth, heavy cream and unpeeled, potato slices.
Lock on lid and close pressure valve. Cook at high pressure (most machines default to high) for 5 minutes.
Wash and dry kale. Roll kale up tightly from one end to the other. Using a very sharp knife, cut the kale vertically from end to end about 1/4" in between each slice. When you unroll the kale, it will be in ribbons.
When beep sounds, wait 10 minutes and then release the rest of the pressure.
Add kale chiffonade to the cooking pot and stir until wilted.
Place in serving bowls and top with bacon.
Notes
Mild Sausage can be substituted for the Hot Sausage and add Hot Pepper Flakes to get the heat.If using Half & Half instead of cream, add it in after you have released all the pressure. Heavy cream has a high enough fat content, so it can be cooked under pressure.
Lower Calorie Olive Garden Zuppa Toscana Soup
Turkey bacon can be used in place or pork bacon.
Swap out the pork sausage for turkey sausage.
Half & Half can be used in place of heavy cream.
The soup will not be as satisfying, so I suggest using the full fat and having a smaller portion.Note that if you do use Half & Half instead of heavy cream, you will want to add the Half & Half to the soup after pressure cooking. While heavy cream is fine to cook under pressure, Half & Half and milk needs to be added to the pot after pressure has been released.
Low Carb and Keto Option
Use radishes instead of potatoes.
No one will know!
Crisping Lid - Which to Use
Mealthy Crisplid will fit on all 6 and 8 quart pressure cookers regardless of brand.
Instant Pot Air Fryer Lid will only fit on specific Instant Pot models, so please check my article Instant Pot Air Fryer Lid to see if this brand will fit your model.
Each lid can be purchased from Amazon, which I have linked below.