16 of Your Favorite Olive Garden Dishes — Hacked!
What if I told you you didn't have to leave your house the next time you had a serious craving for Olive Garden? These copycat recipes allow you to create your own restaurant-worthy dinner at home, and there's no reservation required. From Olive Garden favorites like the famous breadsticks to other menu must haves like the minestrone soup, these Italian recipes will convince you that going out to eat is overrated.
Olive Garden Recipe: Toasted Ravioli
Crunchy, cheesy, toasted ravioli is one of the best things on the menu, and this copycat makes it easy by using store-bought ravioli.
Get the recipe: Olive Garden's toasted ravioli
Olive Garden Recipe: Zuppa Toscana
With bacon, spicy Italian sausage, garlic, potatoes, and cream, this rich soup is the definition of comfort food.
Get the recipe: zuppa Toscana
Olive Garden Recipe: Breadsticks
One of the reasons Olive Garden's breadsticks are so damn addictive is what's on top: garlic salt. We've hacked the recipe so you can start any meal on the right note with this heavenly appetizer.
Get the recipe: Olive Garden's breadsticks
Olive Garden Recipe: Tuscan Garlic Chicken
If Olive Garden's Tuscan garlic chicken is one of your favorite meals to order, you'll love this easy version that has a simple cream sauce with spinach, parmesan, and garlic.
Get the recipe: Tuscan garlic chicken
Olive Garden Recipe: Creamy Chicken Gnocchi Soup
This creamy soup has pillowy gnocchi, shredded chicken, and herbs like rosemary and thyme to brighten it up.
Get the recipe: creamy chicken gnocchi soup
Olive Garden Recipe: Lasagna Classico
If classic lasagna is your go-to order at Olive Garden and other Italian restaurants, you'll add this copycat recipe to your weekly dinner rotation.
Get the recipe: Olive Garden Lasagna Classico
Olive Garden Recipe: Minestrone Soup
Minestrone soup is hands down one of the best things from Olive Garden, and this copycat version does not disappoint.
Get the recipe: Olive Garden's minestrone soup
Olive Garden Recipe: Shrimp Fettuccine Alfredo
What makes Olive Garden's alfredo sauce so cheesy and decadent is a combination of butter, garlic, heavy cream, milk, parmesan, and an egg yolk. It's the perfect base for fettuccine pasta and sauteed shrimp.
Get the recipe: shrimp fettuccine alfredo
Olive Garden Recipe: Pasta Fagioli Soup
Pasta fagioli soup is like a mashup of pasta with tomato sauce, minestrone soup, and Italian sausage soup. It has the best of both the pasta and soup worlds.
Get the recipe: pasta fagioli soup
Olive Garden Recipe: Salad
Bottomless salad is all yours if you make a big batch of this copycat salad with olives, tomatoes, pepperoncini, and more of the good stuff.
Get the recipe: Olive Garden's salad
Olive Garden Recipe: Chicken Lombardy
Olive Garden's chicken lombardy is even better than chicken parmesan because the breaded chicken is topped with alfredo sauce, cheese, bacon, and parsley.
Get the recipe: chicken lombardy
Olive Garden Recipe: Zuppa Toscana
This garlicky Italian sausage soup is actually incredibly easy to make.
Get the recipe: slow-cooker zuppa Toscana
Olive Garden Recipe: Instant Pot Pasta E Fagioli Soup
Set this soup up in your instant post, and you've got an Olive Garden dinner ready to go.
Get the recipe: instant pot pasta e fagioli soup
Olive Garden Recipe: Bolognese
What makes Olive Garden's hearty bolognese sauce so good is a combination of both ground beef and Italian sausage, plus plenty of rosemary and sage.
Get the recipe: Olive Garden's bolognese
Olive Garden Recipe: Zuppa Toscana With Kale
Swap spinach for kale in this version of zuppa Toscana that's packed with bacon and spicy Italian sausage.
Get the recipe: zuppa Toscana
Olive Garden Recipe: Chicken Marsala
This lightened-up version of Olive Garden's chicken Marsala has a flavor-packed Marsala wine sauce that's served on top of breaded chicken coated in whole-wheat flour.
Get the recipe: lightened-up chicken Marsala