How to Make Tasty Italian Wedding Soup with Penne Pasta

Italian Wedding Soup with Penne Pasta. First, the pasta must be cooked separately; otherwise, it thickens and ruins the soup. If you don't plan on leftovers, the pasta can be cooked in the soup, but you need to go easy on the amount of pasta. Italian wedding soup is a quick and hearty dinner that only looks like you worked long and hard to make it.

If you are broth-averse, you can cook this soup the whole way through, adding the pasta before you portion it out and freeze it to let the pasta soak up all. A delicious and hearty soup made with bite size herbed beef and pork meatballs, veggies and acini If using one of those previously listed I'd recommend adding them along with the pasta as they'll need a longer cook time. The spinach cooks almost instantly whereas. You can have Italian Wedding Soup with Penne Pasta using 12 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Italian Wedding Soup with Penne Pasta

1. Prepare 1 packet of Lipton Onion Soup Mix.
2. Prepare 1 pound of Lean Ground Beef.
3. It's 3 of whole medium carrots (sliced).
4. Prepare 1 of whole medium yellow onion (diced).
5. It's 2 teaspoon of minced garlic.
6. Prepare 1 of container/carton chicken broth.
7. Prepare 1 package (10 oz) of frozen chopped spinach.
8. Prepare of Black Pepper * depending on your desired taste.
9. You need of Kosher Salt * depending on your desired taste.
10. It's 1 1/2 cup of penne pasta (uncooked).
11. Prepare 1 tablespoon of olive oil.
12. You need of Shredded parmesan cheese.

Italian wedding soup is such a simple soup to make. The part that takes the most time is making the meatballs. You can use any combination of ground meat you like. I love wedding soup and this is one of my favorites. cups uncooked penne pasta.

Italian Wedding Soup with Penne Pasta instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. In a bowl, combine ground beef, lipton onion soup mix, minced garlic, and diced onion; mix well. Shape into desired meatball sizes.
3. Take a baking dish, and coat with cooking spray. Place meatball in baking dish, and cook for 20 mins (occasionally rotating meatballs).
4. In a fry pan lightly saute' sliced carrots in olive oil. Make sure not to burn carrots..
5. Bring chicken broth to a boil in a dutch oven pot, and add penne pasta. Cook pasta until tender.
6. Remove meatballs from oven, and drain on paper towel.
7. Add package of frozen spinach in with boiling penne pasta, and reduce heat, and stir occasionally.
8. Add sauteed carrots, and meatballs into dutch oven pot and stir.
9. Let simmer on low heat for about 10 mins.
10. When ready to eat garnish with shredded parmesan cheese..

Meanwhile, in a soup kettle or Dutch oven, sauté carrots, celery, onion and garlic in oil until tender. I used Hot Italian Sausage for this recipe. This is a really good pasta dish. You can adjust the heat according to your taste. Cook meatballs, pasta and spinach with Progresso® chicken broth for a famous Italian soup - a hearty meal.