Will It Soup? Lasagna Edition.

For greater than a century, Americans have tailored dishes with Italian roots like fettuccine Alfredo, rooster Parmesan and spaghetti with meatballs. Lasagna soup is the most recent, a recipe that goals to take the work out of constructing the pasta casserole by mixing its parts right into a one-pot soup.

For its present second within the highlight, it will possibly thank a Lego prepare. Last 12 months, a TikTok account tried to find out what number of sheets of lasagna it might take to cease the toy locomotive (24, because it seems). Danny Freeman, who posts as @dannylovespasta on social media, responded with a video from his kitchen in Beacon, N.Y. He tossed damaged lasagna right into a soup of marinara and floor beef and stirred it collectively.

A couple of days later, the singer SZA made a request: “RECIPE PLEASE KING,” and Mr. Freeman posted it. With greater than 21 million views, Mr. Freeman’s model has turn out to be the inspiration for dozens of on-line recreations and variations, together with vegetarian and white-bean-and -pesto soups.

“It feels such as you’re consuming a home-cooked meal that your grandmother spent all day doing, however it’s one thing you throw collectively for your loved ones,” stated Mr. Freeman, the creator of the 2023 cookbook “Danny Loves Pasta,” who started posting recipes on-line throughout the pandemic. He now makes lasagna soup at residence a minimum of as soon as each two weeks throughout the winter. “It feels new and recent,” he stated, “despite the fact that it’s been round for a very long time.”

Traditional lasagna, baked in a casserole dish, first grew to become in style within the Nineteen Thirties in Italian American eating places and was offered as frozen meals within the Fifties, stated Ian MacAllen, the creator of “Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American.” The soup model was probably first launched at Windsor’s Lounge on the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago throughout the Nineties, when red-sauce Italian eating places started to shut, he stated.

The soup gained traction within the late aughts, probably when the Campbell’s Soup Company printed a recipe for it that included beef broth. Mr. MacAllen stated {that a} rise in the usage of sluggish cookers additionally may’ve contributed to the soup’s reputation.

Italian American recipes like lasagna soup have nostalgic endurance. The soup offers the identical sense of consolation, Mr. MacAllen stated, and in a world coping with wars, inflation and fallout from the pandemic, persons are searching for that contentment from Italian American delicacies.

“They’re consuming their emotions, and it tastes like Italian meals,” he stated.

Blount Fine Foods has been making its lasagna soup, made with turkey sausage, at Wegmans since 2019. But final 12 months, as social-media posts about lasagna soup went viral, the corporate launched it in 3,000 grocery shops. It is likely one of the producer’s 5 top-selling soup flavors, stated Todd Blount, the president and chief govt.

A 12 months after Mr. Freeman’s posts about lasagna soup first appeared, persons are making wilder variations, particularly in winter.

In January, Janelle Smith, an influencer, posted her recipe for white rooster lasagna soup from her kitchen in Atlanta. This model is creamier than the unique soup.

“I stated: ‘I really like Alfredo, I really like lasagna,” Ms. Smith recalled. “Let me put the 2 collectively.’”