Italian Wedding Soup
Happy Halloween! Tonight is a great night for soup! Eat a nice big bowl to warm you up before you go trick-or-treating! This soup is SOOO flavorful & delicious! The meatballs are plump & full of Italian seasonings. The broth is simple, but well-seasoned with onion & garlic powder.
I believe the broth is actually supposed to be a little more transparent than pictured, but it’s because I cooked my pasta in the broth, so the starch from the pasta made it a little foggy.
The texture of the Acini Di Pepe pasta is so fun to roll around in your mouth. You are going to love this soup! It’s super simple to make & so delicious to eat! Plus it’s another healthy soup, so you can eat that second helping to keep you warm & full for the cold fall & winter months.
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Italian Wedding Soup
Ingredients
Meatballs:
- 1 lb (97%) lean ground beef
- ½ cup onion, minced
- ¼ cup parmesan cheese, grated or shredded
- ⅓ cup bread crumbs
- 1 tsp salt
- ¼ tsp ground black pepper
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 Tbsp Italian seasoning
- 1 large egg
Soup:
- 2 quarts (8 cups) chicken broth,
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- ¾ tsp ground black pepper
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 cup acini di pepe, (tiny round pasta)
- 2 Tbsp fresh Italian parsley, (or 1 1/2 tsp dried parsley)
- 1 cup loosely packed spinach, thinly sliced
Instructions
- In a large bowl, combine all the ingredients for the meatballs. Shape into 1″ balls. I used my teaspoon measuring spoon to make them nice & small. Round the balls in your palms to create a nice round meatball.
- In a large stock pot or dutch oven, brown meatballs. (If you aren’t using lean beef, you will want to do this in small batches & drain the fat off.) Add the broth, onion powder, garlic powder, ground black pepper & salt. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat & simmer, uncovered for 5 minutes.
- Add acini di pepe pasta to the soup. Cook 10 minutes or according to package directions. Add fresh parsley & spinach just before serving. Stir well & serve hot.
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Just made this for dinner and LOVE it!! Will be making it again. My only recommendation is to cut wayyyy back on the salt because it was a very salty final product, I didn’t mind too much but my bf wouldn’t eat it 😞 maybe cut out the salt for the seasoning and leave the broth to speak for itself? Idk, I’ll play with it next round because holy easy and yummy!
Everyone’s salt tolerance is different, and depending on the chicken broth used, it can have more sodium in it as well, but definitely a valid concern. Glad it was still semi-edible and worth remaking with less additional salt next time.
Italian Wedding Soup is one of my fave soups!! If I pick a can of soup up at the store, that’s usually what I choose but I’ve never made it before. Totally have to change that now! This looks so yummy and easy! Thanks for the recipe!
This looks delicious, Amber, and so pretty with all of the colors! And how cute is that little tiny pasta?! Adding this one to our soup line-up this fall…thanks!
one of my favs but I’ve never tired to make it! pinning
That looks tasty, I’ve never had it before!
Yum, I haven’t ever tried this soup, but it looks REALLY good! Ps my husband loves an acini de pepi salad his aunt makes too. Where can I find that stuff?
I find the Acini Di Pepe at Walmart usually on the top shelf in a small box near the orzo. Is it frog eye salad that his aunt makes? I like that one! I have the recipe here on my blog too!
This looks like a fun soup recipe! We aren’t big soup fans but my husband loves anything Italian. Pinned!
THIS LOOKS YUMMMY! I LOVE ME SOME GOOD SOUP! Thanks Amber! xoxo-Brook