Chan took inspiration from a recipe published on Delish in September 2019 and developed by the site’s then Food Director, Lauren Miyashiro. “For my entire life, I really can’t remember where I was inspired,” Miyashiro shared via email. “However, I came up with a copycat recipe for deep fried lasagna from Olive Garden and everyone was freaking out about this recipe. So I suspect the whole fried pasta concept has evolved a bit from then on. … What I can say is that every time they were prepared in the kitchen, they were devoured within minutes. “
While the fried lasagna came a few years earlier, Olive Garden stepped into the pasta chip game in 2018 when it offered a loaded version a la nachos ahead of the Super Bowl. And the pasta and grissini chain isn’t the only restaurant that has discovered fried pasta. After some TikTok users noticed that their favorite restaurants were serving pasta chips and claiming they were a thing in Louisiana, I discovered that restaurants like The Chimes and Copeland serve them with a spinach and artichoke dip; Copeland said in an Instagram post that it has served them for decades.
Still, another fried pasta has been served in the United States for nearly a century: toasted ravioli. Toasted ravioli, a St. Louis specialty, are typically beef or cheese-filled noodles that are breaded, deep-fried, sprinkled with parmesan cheese, and served with marinara sauce for dipping. While there is heated debate as to who invented this culinary masterpiece, toasted ravioli has been around since the 1930s or 1940s.
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