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Creamy Tortellini Soup

Grab a bowl and let us watch Sunday night football. Sausage, veggies, tortellini, and a splash of cream at the end.

Grab a bowl and let’s watch Sunday night football.

Creamy Tortellini Soup

Prep
15 min
Cook
30 min
Total
45 min
Serves
6
Course
Dinner
Cuisine
Italian

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Brown the Italian sausage in a large pot, then remove it.
  2. Add the butter and sauté the onion, carrots and zucchini.
  3. Add Italian seasoning, oregano, basil, red pepper flakes, and salt and pepper to taste.
  4. Sprinkle with flour, then pour in the chicken broth.
  5. Add the sausage back in, along with the chopped frozen spinach.
  6. Bring to a boil, reduce, and simmer for 10 minutes.
  7. Remove from the heat and add the tortellini. Let it sit for 10 minutes.
  8. Stir in the cream or half and half.

Make it yours

  • Chicken sausage: I use chicken Italian sausage. Lighter, and nobody has ever noticed.
  • Off the heat for the tortellini: Adding it off the heat and letting it sit stops it going to mush.