Souped Up Tortellini Recipes

Steps:

• Saute celery, onion, carrots and garlic in oil.
• Add spinach and tomatoes and simmer 10 minutes.
• Add spices and chicken broth.
• Simmer, covered, until vegetables are tender-crisp.
• Add water and tortellini and simmer 10- 15 minutes.
• Remove bay leaf and serve.

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, bring broth to a boil. Stir in tortellini. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 4 minutes, stirring occasionally. Stir in the beans, tomatoes and basil. Simmer for 4-6 minutes or until pasta is tender. Stir in the vinegar. Sprinkle with cheese and pepper if desired.

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven, saute onion in oil until tender. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer. Stir in broth and tomatoes. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally., Add tortellini; cook for 7-9 minutes or until tender. Stir in the spinach, vinegar and pepper. Cook and stir until heated through and spinach is wilted. Sprinkle with cheese.

Steps:

• Crumble sausage into a Dutch oven; add onion. Cook and stir over medium heat until meat is no longer pink. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer. Stir in the broth, water and tomatoes. Bring to a boil., Add tortellini; return to a boil. Cook for 5-8 minutes or until almost tender, stirring occasionally. Reduce heat; add the spinach, basil, pepper and pepper flakes. Cook 2-3 minutes longer or until spinach is wilted and tortellini are tender. Serve with cheese if desired.Freeze option: Place individual portions of cooled soup in freezer containers and freeze. To use, partially thaw in refrigerator overnight. Heat through in a saucepan, stirring occasionally; add broth if necessary.

Steps:

• Remove casings from sausage. Brown sausage and cook until crumbly. Remove meat from pot. Reserve 1 tablespoon drippings.
• Cook onion and garlic in the drippings until tender. Add broth, water, wine, carrots, tomatoes, basil, oregano, tomato sauce, and the cooked sausage. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer uncovered 30 minutes.
• Add zucchini, green peppers, parsley, and tortellini. Simmer another 25 minutes, covered, for fresh tortellini, or 45 minutes, covered, for frozen tortellini. Serve with fresh parmesan cheese sprinkled over the top.

Steps:

• Heat oil in a pan. Fry the carrots and onion for 5 mins until starting to soften. Add the stock and tomatoes, then simmer for 10 minutes Add the peas or beans with 5 mins to go.
• Once veggies are tender, stir in the pasta. Return to the boil and simmer for 2 mins until the pasta is just cooked. Stir in the basil, if using. Season, then serve in bowls topped with a sprinkling of Parmesan and slices of garlic bread.

Steps:

• Bring the broth to a gentle boil in a medium pot over medium-high heat.
• Add the frozen vegetables to the pot and return to a gentle boil. Add the tortellini and cook until almost tender, 3 to 5 minutes. Add the heavy cream and cook for another 2 minutes. Taste and adjust the seasoning.
• Ladle into bowls and top with the shaved Parmesan and croutons. Drizzle with olive oil.

Steps:

• In a saucepan heat vegetable oil over medium heat. Add the onion, cover and simmer 5 minutes or until tender. Add the sliced mushrooms and saute 2 to 3 more minutes or until somewhat tender. Add the carrots, parsnips and broth. Bring to a boil and simmer 5 minutes or until the carrots are tender. Add the tortellini, cover and cook 8 minutes or until cooked through. While the vegetables and tortellini are cooking, roughly chop the spinach. When the tortellini is cooked through, stir in the spinach and simmer a minute or until tender. Season with salt and pepper and ladle into a soup bowl.

Steps:

• Heat olive olive over medium heat.
• Saute garlic and onion 10 - 15 minutes.
• Add chicken broth and italian herbs. Bring to a boil.
• Stir in tortellini, then simmer 10 - 12 minutes.
• Stir in tomatoes, simmer 5 minutes.
• Add spinach, cook 3 minutes.
• Salt & pepper to taste.
• Season with parmesean cheese on serving portion.

Steps:

• Pour 1 can broth into a small saucepan and add tortellini; bring to a boil. Cook tortellini until tender yet firm to the bite, about 5 minutes.
• Heat oil in a large stockpot over medium heat; cook and stir sausage, onion, garlic, and Italian seasoning until sausage is browned and crumbly, 5 to 10 minutes. Add tortellini-broth mixture, remaining can of broth, tomato puree, and spinach to sausage mixture; cover stockpot and simmer until flavors blend, about 30 minutes.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to400 degrees.
• In roasting pan, combine sausage, onion, garlic and pepper. Add olive oil and toss to coat.
• Roast, uncovered, stirring occasionally, 20-30 minutes until sausage is browned.
• Remove from oven and reduce oven temperature to 325 degrees.
• Drain grease from sausage and cut into ¼ in slices.
• Return to roasting pan. Add beef broth, water, Italian seasoning, and carrots.
• Cover and return to oven. Bake 30 minutes, until sausage is tender. Remove from oven.
• Stir in tomatoes with juice, beans, olives, and zucchini. Bake 15-20 minutes.
• Add tortellini and bake 5 minutes longer.
• Garnish with parmesan cheese.
• The soup may also be prepared entirely on the stove.

Steps:

• Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir beef in the hot skillet until browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes; drain and discard grease.
• Combine ground beef, tortellini, beef broth, cream of onion soup, diced tomatoes with green chile peppers, green beans, salt, and pepper in a slow cooker.
• Cook on High for 1 hour.

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, heat oil over medium heat.
• Cook carrots, onions, celery, garlic, basi, salt and pepper for 5 minutes.
• Add stock and tomatoes; bring to boil.
• Reduce heat.
• Simmer for 10 minutes.
• Add tortellini, garbanzo beans, squash, zucchini.
• Simmer until tortellini are tender but firm (about 10 minutes).