Italian Wedding Soup is such an easy recipe to make with ready-made meatballs and baby spinach! A homemade soup that's ready in about 30 minutes and the perfect soup to warm you up on a chilly day. Italian Wedding Soup will be a family favorite soup recipe for sure!
Easy Italian Wedding Soup With Frozen Meatballs
One of my favorite things about the seasons changing from summer into fall is homemade soup simmering on the stove.
Soup warms up your body and your soul. You're going to love that this soup recipe is a cinch to make with ready-made meatballs and baby spinach!
The mini meatballs for our Italian Wedding Soup can be found in the frozen foods section of your grocery store.
You can also make your own mini meatballs if you have the time. Beef meatballs, chicken meatballs or turkey meatballs will all taste delicious, the choice is yours if you are making homemade mini meatballs. Just be sure that they are cooked all the way through before serving your soup.
This easy Italian wedding soup recipe with frozen meatballs will be ready in about 30 minutes so you can honestly say "Here's a little something I just whipped up!".
So snuggle under a blanket, warm up your body and soul with a mug of simmering meatball Italian soup and welcome in the chilly weather.
If you love a soup with meatballs then you will also love Spaghetti and Meatball Soup and the many homemade soup recipes here at Swirls!
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What is Italian Wedding Soup?
Italian Wedding Soup is one of my all-time favorites but did you know that the soup has nothing to do with weddings?
The name "Italian Wedding Soup" happened to get a little lost in translation. It is a mis-translation of the Italian phrase "minestra maritata" which translates to "married soup".
It is actually a reference to the fact that green vegetables and meats go well together or in other words the flavors "marry" well.
Swirls of Flavor Recipe Tips
- Make your own homemade mini meatballs for this recipe
- Make this recipe with your favorite small pasta shape
- This recipe will taste delicious with baby arugula
Substitutions
- Substitute frozen chicken meatballs for the frozen beef meatballs
- Substitute your favorite baby greens for the baby spinach
Storage
- Store soup in an airtight container in the refrigerator
- Soup will stay fresh for 3-4 days
How to make soup with meatballs
Scroll down for the full recipe instructions and ingredient amounts in the recipe card below
- In saucepot heat oil over medium-hi heat.
- Cook meatballs, onion and Italian seasoning until meatballs are browned and onion is just tender, 5-7 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Add chicken broth and bring to a boil.
- Add pasta and boil 10 minutes.
- Stir in spinach. Reduce heat to medium and simmer until pasta is al dente and spinach is wilted, 2-3 minutes.
Recipes With Meatballs
- Meatball Parmesan Heros
- Sweet and Sour Meatballs
- Baked Meatballs Parmesan
- Honey Garlic Meatballs from Restless Chipotle
What to serve with Italian wedding soup
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Ingredients for Italian wedding soup recipe
- oil
- frozen bite-size meatballs
- onion
- dried Italian seasoning
- chicken broth
- mini penne pasta
- baby spinach
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Italian Wedding Soup
Ingredients
- 1 Tbs. oil
- 1 pkg. (14 oz.) frozen bite-size meatballs, approximately 28 per package
- 1 onion, chopped, 1 cup
- 1 tsp. dried Italian seasoning
- 3 cans (14.5 oz. each) chicken broth
- 1 cup mini penne pasta
- 4 cups baby spinach
Instructions
- In saucepot heat oil over medium-hi heat.
- Cook meatballs, onion and Italian seasoning until meatballs are browned and onion is just tender, 5-7 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Add chicken broth. Bring to a boil.
- Add pasta. Boil 10 minutes.
- 5. Stir in spinach. Reduce heat to medium and simmer until pasta is al dente and spinach is wilted, 2-3 minutes.
Notes
- Make your own homemade mini meatballs for this recipe
- Make this recipe with your favorite small pasta shape
- This recipe will taste delicious with baby arugula
- Substitute frozen chicken meatballs for the frozen beef meatballs
- Substitute your favorite baby greens for the baby spinach
- Store soup in an airtight container in the refrigerator
- Soup will stay fresh for 3-4 days
Nutrition
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