Tortellini Soup

You guys – I threw this together the other night expecting it to just be pretty good and it was flat out AMAZING. It had soooo much flavor, it was soo delicious and filling! Not all of my recipes are 100% carb friendly because face it, I cannot live without them and you need them for your muscles to recover! You could put me in the “carb cycling” bucket on that topic. 🙂

But back to this AMAZING dinner! I literally asked my husband, chicken or beef stock and this is how this came to be! Now remember from other posts that you can use stock out of the box, homemade (if you are suzi homemaker amazing) or you can buy the better than bouillon beef that you add to water – it says to boil water and mix it in, my water out of my sink comes out pretty much boiling hot so I just add it to that and stir it in. Or really just add the water and the spoonful of broth goo (sounds gross but its delicious) and it will melt into the meal as you boil 🙂

I actually buy fresh spinach and if it starts to go bad before we can use it, I just put it in a baggie in the freezer and store it just for occasions like this. So its not frozen together but it is frozen – better than letting it go bad! And great for soup – but it doesn’t defrost well for say a salad 🙂 LOL. And sorry I was terrible at getting pictures through the process this night. Luckily it is all dump in the pan when it’s time  🙂 Easy Peasy!

Flash on and off – I served it with a little more Parm grated on top – because I want my family to feel like their food looks as amazing as it tastes 🙂 Even though I constantly remind them I am not a short order chef! Mom life!

RECIPE:

• 1 lb ground turkey*
• 4 cups beef broth
• 1 Tbsp Onion Powder**
• 1 Tbsp Garlic Powder – or 1 clove garlic
• 2 tbsp Italian seasoning (or 1 tbsp Basil & 1 tbsp Oregano)
• 1 tsp Thyme
• 1 can beans – rinsed – Great Northern beans***
• 2 Cups Spinach
• 1/4 Cup Parmesan – fresh Grated
• 1 1/2 lb Tortellini
• 1/4 Cup Heavy Cream

1. Cook Ground Turkey until brown/cooked through – salt and pepper as you cook (just sprinkle around the pan) and sprinkle in onion powder and Garlic about half way through cooking – drain if you need to
2. Stir in all 4 cups Beef Broth, Rinsed Beans, and all seasonings (Italian/basil/oregano and thyme) in this step you can add a few more sprinkles onion powder (2 tsp) just for safe measure — let simmer stirring occasionally for 10-15 mins on med heat
3. Add Spinach and cook until wilted or unfrozen (using frozen is good, you will just have to cook longer in this step to get it all unfrozen) — 2-8 mins depending on your spinach
4. Add Tortellini and cook until soft depending on bag or box directions**** Add in up to 1 cup water if you start running low in this step
5. Turn heat to a low medium and add in heavy cream – stir it around and cook for 3-5 mins
6. Drop in 1/4 cup Parm (fresh grated – yes it matters, it will not melt the same otherwise) – turn heat off and just stir this in until it melts and disappears. Serve immediately – watch out it will be hot!

Notes from above:

*you can use ground beef here too

**You can put onions in this if you would like, my family hates them so you will never see anything other than onion powder in my recipes

***I used a pack of mixed beans (costco super food ya’ll) that had chickpeas, soy beans, black beans and kidney beans- so any bean you like here is good too

****Mine was in the fridge section so I only had to cook 2 mins but if you use the hard pasta you might have to cook 5-8 mins, or if you have the fridge tort and you had it in the freezer same as above 5-10 mins