CREAMY Italian Sausage & Spinach Tortellini Soup

This CREAMY Italian Sausage & Spinach Tortellini Soup has been tested and approved by my husband and my TODDLER. Do you want fast fan-favorite comfort food for the upcoming winter seasoning? Looking for a way to sneak some extra veggies into your family’s diet? Here is a quick recipe that you can quickly whip up either in the crockpot or on the stovetop, leaving your family screaming for more.

Comfort season is back, baby!!! What better way it ring it in than with a deliciously cozy, hearty, and CREAMY Italian Sausage & Spinach Tortellini Soup? As a busy mom, wife, and working woman, I am here to give you a quick recipe you can make in a slow cooker or on a stovetop!

By the end of this post, you will learn how to whip up a delicious veggie-packed recipe that will leave you and your family feeling good.

After being married for almost four years and a mom for two years, I realized that cooking dinner has to be QUICK and efficient for me; it also has to be HEALTHY. If you are a girlfriend, wife, business women, mama, or new to the cooking world, this recipe will be your go-to during these cooler months ahead!

This post is about making the best CREAMY Italian Sausage & Spinach Tortellini Soup that every cooking man or woman should have in their recipe box!

The Nutrients in CREAMY Italian Sausage & Spinach Tortellini Soup

When it comes to cooking I am always wanting to know the health benefits of the foods I am putting into my family’s bodies. During these cooler seasons, I am always looking for fresh produce and seasonings that will boost my family’s immune system so that they stay nice and healthy during the season changes. Below is a list of the benefits of each ingredient that is in this Creamy Italian Sausage & Spinach Tortellini Soup.

Diced Tomatoes: Boost the immune system, packed full of vitamins B, E, & K. Packed with antioxidants, folate, and potassium. Helps lower cholesterol and helps fight off cancer and helps protect the skin.
Carrots: Prevent Heart Disease and cancer, Help with eye health, packed with vitamins A, C, B6, and K1, Calcium, Iron, Biotin, Potassium, and Lutein.
Heavy Whipping Cream: This is the natural separation of raw milk. Packed with healthy fats.
Chicken Broth: Packed with calcium, magnesium, potassium, Vitamin A, Vitamin K2, Zinc, iron, boron, omega 3, Omega 6, and collagen. It Fights inflammation supports gut health and improves joint health.
Onions: High in antioxidants, helps with blood sugar levels, improve digestive health, are anti-inflammatory, are a great source of vitamin c, and keep cancer at bay.
Spinach: Lowers blood pressure, improves cognition, spinach promotes healthy eyes, bones, skin, and blood. Spinach is packed full of vitamins A, C, K, iron, folate, and potassium.
Minced Garlic: Boost the immune system, reduces high blood pressure, reduces cholesterol, has antibiotic properties, and prevents cancer.
Ground Italian Sausage: High in vitamins A, B6, B12, E, & K. Also has healthy minerals like thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, folate, calcium, potassium, iron, magnesium, zinc, selenium, phosphorus, manganese, and choline.
Tortellini’s: no nutritional facts but makes the soup taste amazing!
Celery: Prevents cancer and Alzheimers, manages blood sugar, and is packed with vitamins A, C, K, potassium, and folate.
Fresh Thyme Leaves ( dried Thyme): Manages blood pressure, helps with inflammation, is a natural cough-suppressant, helps with skin conditions like eczema and acne, and lastly packed full of Vitamins A, C, and magnesium.
Dried Basil: Has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory benefits, helps control blood sugar and stress, packed with vitamins A, and K, calcium, iron, and manganese.
Dried Oregano: Rich in antioxidants helps fight bacteria and reduces viral infection.
Cumin: Controls blood sugar, fights bacteria, lower cholesterol, and is anti-inflammatory.
Fennel Seeds (use to your taste): Helps with digestion, blood sugar, and respiratory illness, promotes lactation, improves skin, purifies blood, keeps cancer at bay, and improves eyesight. Packed with vitamins C, K, and E, calcium, magnesium, zinc, potassium, selenium, iron, and antioxidants.
Smoked Paprika: Reduces risk of cancer and heart disease. Helps relieve pain and is packed full of vitamins A, B6, E, and K as well as folate, choline, and niacin.
Crushed Red Pepper Flakes Improve eye and skin health as well as boosts the immune system. Packed full of vitamins A, B6, C, E, and K. Also has calcium, iron, potassium, magnesium, folate, niacin, and riboflavin.

Everything you need to make a CREAMY Italian Sausage & Spinach Tortellini Soup

I made sure that this recipe was packed full of LOTS OF VEGGIES! Why?! Because my children normally refuse to eat vegetables so I try to sneak them in any chance I get.

The ingredients you will need for this CREAMY Italian Sausage & Spinach Tortellini Soup are the following

28 oz Diced Tomatoes
3 Whole Carrots
Heavy Whipping Cream
Chicken Broth
1 Onion
Handful of Spinach
Minced Garlic
Ground Italian Sausage
16 OZ Tortellini

These are the basic ingredients if you are looking to whip something up real quick. Some other ingredients you can add to it to make it even MORE delicious are

4 Stalks of Celery
2 Tablespoons Fresh Thyme Leaves ( OR 2 Teaspoons of dried Thyme)
1 Tablespoon Dried Basil
1 Tablespoon Dried Oregano
1-2 Teaspoons Fennel Seeds (use to your taste)
1 Teaspoon Smoked Paprika
1 Pinch Crushed Red Pepper Flakes
Salt and Black Pepper

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How to Make This Recipe Healthier?

The first thing you can do is change all your ingredients to organic. I personally only use organic products in my household. WHY?! One is that organic foods do not use toxic pesticides, no GMOs, no artificial food coloring, and so on. You can read more about why to eat organically here!

You can change the ground beef to ground turkey sausage or chicken sausage if you like. Another way you can make it healthier is by changing the heavy whipping cream to your favorite dairy/ non-dairy product. (Whole milk, almond milk, cashew milk, coconut milk, etc. )

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How to make CREAMY Italian Sausage & Spinach soup on the Stove Top

Making this on the stovetop is very quick and you only have to use one pan.

The first thing that you do is brown the Italian sausage. Once that is all brown, dump the grease out and put the sausage into a bowl, and set aside.

Next, you will add your favorite type of cooking oil to the pan and cut up and saute your carrots, onion, and minced garlic. Once this is all finished add your Italian sausage back into the pan.

The last thing you do is add the remaining of your ingredients and cook on the stove at medium-low for about 30-40 minutes until everything is blended together well.

Serve and top it with your favorite grated cheese.

How to make CREAMY Italian Sausage & Spinach soup in a Crock Pot

This is by far the easiest way for me to cook this.

First, you brown the Italian sausage. Once that is all done dump the grease and add the sausage into the crockpot.

Next, you will cut up the carrots and onions and add those to the crockpot

Lastly, you will add the remaining of your ingredients and cook on low for 8 hours.

Serve and top with your favorite grated cheese!

Can CREAMY Italian Sausage & Spinach soup be stored in the freezer?

Wanting to meal prep and then store the soup in the freezer? Great news, soup is one of the best meals to make ahead and store in the freezer! Soup can also last in the freezer for up to SIX MONTHS. You can simply double, triple, or quadruple this recipe and store it in the freezer!

How to properly freeze CREAMY Italian Sausage & Spinach soup?

When it comes to saving food or meal prepping freezers are our best friend. If you know you are wanting to meal prep the soup for a couple of meals in the future then you might want to do things a little differently.

First cook the soup like normal. Once the soup is all cooked let it cool down. If you put hot soup into the freezer right away you can unthaw your food that is already frozen. To cool the soup containers off quickly sit the soup in an ice water bath. Stir often. Once they are cool to the touch transfer the soup into the containers you would like to freeze them in. I love to freeze my soup in freezer bags. The ones I suggested are linked here!

Once you have transferred the soup into the bag make sure that the bag is sealed up tight and labeled. Once you have done that lay flat in the freezer to freeze.

How to defrost CREAMY Italian Sausage & Spinach Soup

The best way to defrost CREAMY Italian Sausage & Spinach Soup is to take the bag/ container out of the freezer and place it in a large bowl. Then place the bowl in the refrigerator overnight to unthaw. However, sometimes you get those times when you are in a pinch and need something quickly. I try to avoid microwaves at all costs. Running the soup under warm water will help break the soup away from the outer edge. Once you do this, you can pull it out of the bag and place it in your soup pan.

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To top off this recipe, serve it with my famous pumpkin pie bars!

What type of quick recipe is your favorite?

Do you have a simple, quick, and delicious recipe you use weekly? Let me know down below in the comments some of your favorite recipes!