Olive Garden Capellini Primavera Pasta - CopyKat Recipes (2024)

Olive Garden’s Capellini Primavera Pasta is a light and wonderful dish if you are watching what you eat. It’s full of vegetables and not overly heavy. Fresh carrots, mushrooms, and broccoli help make a healthy dinner.

Olive Garden Never Ending Pasta Menu

As its “Never Ending Pasta” slogan implies, the Olive Garden is famous for its larger-than-life pasta bowls. However, if you want a lighter pasta recipe option, go for the capellini primavera.

But, honestly, what kind of superhuman can resist those free breadsticks?

Light and Healthy Pasta Recipe

Olive Garden’s capellini primavera is a light and colorful dish that’s not overly heavy. It’s full of vegetables including fresh carrots, mushrooms, and broccoli, making for a very healthy dinner that won’t weigh you down.

I love this recipe, and it tastes just like going out to eat at the Olive Garden.

Italian Pasta Sauces

There’s not much that’s more satisfying than a bowl of deliciously sauced pasta when you sit down to dinner. Few meals can give you as much pleasure. Italian pasta sauces have a rich history that goes back all the way to ancient Rome.

Today, the decision to use more than one type of meat in your ragu, put cheese in your seafood pasta, or make your carbonara with cream, can create just as much passionate dinner conversation among Italian families as the latest political brouhaha.

Pasta Primavera

Primavera is a fairly new addition to the vast pantheon of pasta recipes, and it wasn’t created in Italy. In fact, it was the inspiration of Sirio Maccioni, founder of the famous Le Cirque restaurant in New York City.

In 1977, Sirio whipped up a new pasta dish featuring cream sauce, fresh spring vegetables, and garlic.

Primavera (which means springtime in Italian) caught on and soon became one of the most talked-about dishes in town.

However, Maccioni hadn’t intended to rise to new culinary heights. He was simply improvising when he found out that he had nothing but vegetables to garnish his pasta.

Olive Garden’s Capellini Primavera

The Olive Garden’s version is lighter than Maccioni’s – it leaves out the cream sauce. You can make Olive Garden capellini primavera at home with this copycat recipe. You’ll be surprised by how fresh and simple it is.

Capellini Primavera Recipe Ingredients

Here’s a list of what you need:

• Butter
• Onions
• Carrots
• Broccoli florets
• Mushrooms
• Yellow squash
• Garlic
• Beef bouillon granules
• Sun-dried tomatoes (oil-packed)
• Canned crushed tomatoes in puree
• Fresh parsley
• Dried oregano
• Dried rosemary
• Crushed red pepper flakes
• Angel-hair pasta
• Grated Parmesan cheese

How to Make Olive Garden Capellini Primavera

1. Melt butter in a Dutch oven over medium heat.
2. Add onions, carrots, and broccoli. Sauté for 5 minutes.
3. Add mushrooms, squash, and garlic. Sauté 2 minutes.
4. Add the remaining ingredients except for the pasta and cheese. Stir well.
5. Bring the mixture to a simmer and cook for 8 to 10 minutes or until the vegetables are tender.
6. Place the cooked angel hair pasta in a serving dish.
7. Ladle the Capellini Primavera over the pasta.
8. Sprinkle Parmesan cheese on top.
9. Serve immediately and enjoy!

Recipe Variations

Make it vegetarian or vegan by switching out the butter for olive oil and leaving out the cheese.

Use whole wheat pasta for added nutrition.

You can substitute bucatini, spaghetti, or vermicelli for the capellini pasta.

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• Olive Garden Dressing
• Olive Garden Pizza
• Olive Garden Zuppa Toscana
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