Crock Pot Lasagna Soup is a set-it-and-forget-it meal that delivers all the irresistible and comforting textures and flavors of classic Italian lasagna without hard work!
This lasagna soup has a rich tomato sauce base, browned Italian sausage and ground beef, and al dente broken lasagna noodles. Top each bowl of soup with freshly grated cheese, a dollop of ricotta, and fresh Italian herbs!
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❤️ Why you'll love this recipe
- It’s all the best textures and flavors of traditional lasagna in soup form!
- A set-it and forget-it recipe that you can start in the morning and have ready for lunch or dinner.
- Easily adapt this delicious recipe to suit your personal preferences. I’ve listed suggestions that you can try!
This easy lasagna soup recipe tastes just as good as traditional lasagna but without hard work!
🛒 Ingredients
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Note: The full list of this recipe ingredients with their amounts and options are in the recipe card below.
- Olive oil
- Lean ground beef
- Italian sausage
- Garlic
- Onion
- Beef broth -- may substitute chicken broth
- vegetable juice -- like V-8.
- Crushed tomatoes
- Diced tomatoes
- Dry lasagna noodles
- Italian seasoning
- Kosher salt
- Black pepper
- For topping: ricotta cheese, mozzarella cheese, Italian parsley, fresh basil
🗒 Instructions
Note: This is an overview of the instructions. The full instructions are in the recipe card below.
- Brown the ground beef and Italian ground sausage in a skillet for 3-4 minutes. Add the onion and garlic and cook until the meat is cooked. Drain the excess grease.
- Add the mixture to the Crockpot.
- Add tomatoes, beef broth, vegetable juice, Italian seasoning, salt and pepper.
- Stir the ingredients.
- Cover the slow cooker and cook on low for 6-7 hours or high for 4-5 hours.
- Stir in the broken lasagna sheets gently with a wooden spoon.
- Cook for 30 minutes or until pasta is tender.
- Season with extra salt and pepper if needed. Top with cheese, parsley, or basil.
🔪 Equipment
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You’ll need the following items to make this recipe successfully.
- Crock pot or slow cooker
- large skillet -- for browning the ground beef, ground sausage, garlic, and onion.
🤔 FAQs
These are the questions we are most frequently asked about making this Lasagna Soup recipe in a slow cooker.
Lasagna can become soupy from wet noodles that haven’t been drained well. Too much sauce added between the layers of the lasagna noodles can also create a soupy lasagna.
Whether making traditional lasagna or using your lasagna noodles in recipes such as lasagna roll-ups, some advise placing the dry noodles in a bowl of hot water for about 15-20 minutes to soften them so that they are cooked through and easily pliable.
Drain and rinse the cooked lasagna noodles using a colander, and then dab each noodle carefully with a paper towel while resting the noodles on a sheet of parchment or wax paper. You could add a thickening agent to the sauce and drain excess grease from the browned beef mixture.
Al dente lasagna is firm to the bite and not completely cooked through. It’s a good way to ensure that the noodles are not overcooked when served.
👩🏻🍳 Tips
- Reduce cleanup using a Crockpot liner bag instead of spraying the slow cooker pot with non-stick cooking spray.
- Reheat leftover lasagna soup in a large Dutch oven over medium-low heat on the stovetop until heated through.
- White or whole-grain lasagna noodles can be used in this recipe. Whole-grain noodles absorb more liquid and take longer to cook than white noodles.
- Add the uncooked pasta to the slow cooker 30 minutes before serving, or the pasta will become too soft and mushy.
📚 Variations
- I like to serve my lasagna soup with grated cheese as a delicious topping, but you could incorporate grated cheese into the soup mixture just before serving for a cheesy lasagna soup! Cheddar or mozzarella would work well.
- Use gluten-free noodles for food allergies instead of regular lasagna noodles.
- Any type of sausage and ground meat can be used in this crockpot lasagna soup recipe. Pork sausage, beef sausage, ground chicken, or ground turkey are all great options.
- Reduce the fat content in this soup by using lean ground beef. Regular ground beef will add more flavor to the dish, but you will need to drain any excess grease.
- The Italian sausage in this easy soup recipe adds a lovely kick of heat. Cayenne pepper, paprika, red pepper flakes, and Ro-Tel tomatoes can kick the spice level up a notch.
- Make a vegetarian lasagna soup by omitting the meat, using vegetable broth, and adding vegan mince or vegetables. Chicken broth can also be an alternative if you don’t have beef broth.
- Tomato paste can create a rich tomato broth, although I’ve found the tomato juice and diced tomatoes to be sufficient.
🥫 Storage
Crockpot lasagna soup can be stored in the refrigerator in an airtight container for 4-5 days. This soup could also be stored in the freezer for 1-3 months, although the lasagna noodles can disintegrate by turning overly soft from the soupy mixture.
📗 Related Recipes
- Creamy White Lasagna Soup - This White Lasagna Soup is another brilliant twist to traditional lasagna made with sausage, dried herbs, broth, vegetables, and cheese and thickened with a creamy roux.
- Southwest Chicken Tortellini Soup With Spinach - Add a kick of spice to your next meal with this spicy chicken soup with tortellini pasta and baby spinach.
- Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup - Nothing compares to the comfort of homemade chicken noodle soup! I’ve also included some Ro-Tel tomatoes to maximize flavor.
🍽 Serve with
Top each bowl of lasagna soup with freshly grated cheese (cheddar cheese, Mazzarella, or Parmesan cheese) or crumbled feta and parsley or basil. Enjoy this comforting lasagna soup with Garlic Cheesy Bread or Homemade Dinner Rolls.
📞 Chiacchierata (chat)
Lasagna is one of our household's comfort foods. We love it! But sometimes we like a little variety or we just don't have the time to make a classic lasagna. That's why we started experimenting with lasagna soup. This easy slow cooker lasagna soup recipe is just as hearty as the baked version and it's packed with as much flavor, too.
I'm sure this hearty soup will be a family favorite, for sure!
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📝 Recipe Card
Crockpot Lasagna Soup is one of those hearty soups the whole family will love, especially during the colder months!
This easy and filing soup consists of Italian sausage, ground beef, and broken pieces of al dente lasagna noodles, topped with melty cheese. Serve this slow cooker lasagna soup with garlic bread or dinner rolls as an easy and delicious midweek meal.
And if you're looking for more ways to use lasagna noodles, check out our fabulous No-Fuss Three-Cheese Spinach Cannelloni recipe. You don't have to boil the noodles to make the cannelloni tubes.
If you love this recipe please give it 5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.
📖 Recipe
Best Slow Cooker Lasagna Soup Recipe
Ingredients
Lasagna soup:
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- ½ pound ground beef lean
- ½ pound Italian sausage
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- ½ cup onion diced
- 32 oz beef broth (4 cups or 1 box)
- 1 cup vegetable juice
- 28 oz crushed tomatoes 1 can, undrained
- 15 oz diced tomatoes 1 can
- 6-8 dry lasagna noodles broken into small pieces
- 2 teaspoons Italian seasoning
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
Toppings: (optional)
- Ricotta cheese
- Mozzarella cheese
- Shredded parmesan
- Fresh parsley
- Fresh basil
Instructions
- In a large skillet over medium high heat, heat olive oil, and cook ground beef and Italian sausage until half way done, about 3-4 minutes
- Add in garlic and onion and continue to cook until the meat is cooked through, drain grease
- Put mixture into crockpot and add in tomatoes, beef broth, vegetable juice, Italian seasoning, salt and pepper
- Cover and cook on low for 6-7 hours or on high for 4-5 hours
- Add in pasta and cook for an additional 30 minutes or until pasta is tender, season with extra salt and pepper if needed
- To serve, top with cheese, parsley or basil and enjoy
- Store leftovers in refrigerator
Nutrition
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Mindy
This turned out SO GOOD! Cozy and tasty, and best of all, super easy to make! We love lasagna in our household and this totally hit the spot. THANK YOU for a fine recipe!
Marisa Franca
Thank you, Mindy! I'm so glad you and your family enjoyed it! xoxo
Susan
I love that everything including the pasta cooks in the slow cooker. So easy for a weeknight dinner at the end of a busy day. Can't wait to make it!
Marisa Franca
Hi Susan, it is so simple and with our busy lives the way they are, it's a real time save. Happy cooking!
Gloria
I love making soup in the slow cooker. This will be a hit with the family for sure. Perfect recipe for batch cooking too.
Marisa Franca
Hi Gloria, I know my slow cooker gets a real work out - and yes it is good for batch cooking. Have a great week!!