Sausage Tortellini soup is full of delicious flavors and is the perfect cold weather meal. It is packed with tortellini, sausage, and zucchini and I guarantee everyone will want the recipe.
One of my favorite all time soup recipes and probably the soup I have made more than any other. If you like pasta in your soup be sure and try Pasta e Fagioli and Slow Cooker Chicken Tortellini Soup.
Most Popular Soup Recipe Ever
The recipe for this Sausage Tortellini soup is the probably the recipe I have had the most requests for. Every time I have made it someone or multiple someones ask me for the recipe. The recipe was given to me years ago by a friend and it’s been a frequent visitor to our weekly meal plan ever since.
The soup has a rich tomato based soup and is full of vegetables, Italian sausage and cheese tortellini. I usually use a sweet Italian sausage but a spicy one would be yummy too. I used carrots and zucchini but feel free to add in your favorite vegetable too. Top off each bowl with some freshly grated Parmesan cheese and chopped parsley.
How to Make Sausage Tortellini Soup
- Brown and Saute Brown your sausage in a pan, remove and and saute your onions and garlic in the same pan.
- Boil and Simmer Add in liquid and all other ingredients except for zucchini and tortellini, bring to a boil and simmer for 20-30 minutes.
- Tortellini & Zucchini. Add in the zucchini and tortellini about 15-20 minutes before serving. Simmer until tortellini is cooked through.
Tips for Making Sausage Tortellini Soup
- Italian Sausage I use a mild ground sausage but if you like a bit of a kick, use spicy Italian sausage.
- Fresh/Frozen Tortellini? You can use fresh or frozen cheese tortellini, both work great. The frozen tortellini may just take a bit longer to cook.
- Vegetables I use zucchini and carrots but you could also add in mushrooms and peppers. Saute the peppers along with the carrots and add the mushrooms in with the zucchini.
- How to Freeze Soup? This soup freezes great, just don’t add the tortellini before freezing. It absorbs too much of the soup and begins to break down. Add the tortellini in right before freezing. To freeze, cook the soup to room temperature and then place in a large freezer bag or freezer container. I prefer to use freezer bags because they can be frozen flat and thaw out quickly.
This soup is the perfect cold weather meal, it will warm you up and fill you up at the same time! It is a great recipe to share with friends and neighbors who are under the weather. They always love it!
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Sausage Tortellini Soup Recipe
Sausage Tortellini Soup
Ingredients
- 1 lb. sweet Italian sausage
- 1 cup carrots thinly sliced
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 2 14 oz. diced tomatoes
- 2 cloves garlic chopped
- 1/2 tsp. dried basil
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/2 tsp. oregano
- 5 cups beef or chicken broth
- 1 - 8 oz. can tomato sauce
- 29 oz. can crushed tomatoes
- 1 1/2 cups sliced zucchini
- 8 oz. fresh meat or cheese tortellini I use cheese
- Grated Parmesan cheese
Instructions
- Brown sausage, remove from pan and drain.
- Set aside.
- Saute onions and garlic until tender.
- Add water,broth, carrots, tomatoes, basil, oregano, tomato sauce and sausage.
- Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer uncovered for about 20 minutes.
- Skim off any fat and stir in zucchini and tortellini.
- Simmer for an additional 20 minutes or until tortellini and zucchini are tender.
- Garnish with Parmesan cheese.
Nutrition
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I want to make this with home canned jars of tomatoes, how would you adapt the recipe?
If you have a kitchen scale just weigh your tomatoes and use a similar weight, you will need to put them in a blender and pulse them a few times to chop them up.
Delicious! Just made this tonight for my family and my 5 kids and husband loved it! Definitely keeping in our dinner rotation. Thank you!
I am so glad it is now a family favorite for you too!
This was a huge hit with my non-soup loving husband, and my 8-year old even said it was yummy! Paired perfectly with crusty French bread, a crisp salad, and some strawberry ice cream sundaes for dessert. Delish! Thank you for sharing this amazing recipe!
Sounds like a delicious dinner – so glad the family enjoyed it!
Making this soup this week!! Sounds so yummy!!
Can’t wait to make this for a party. Do you think I could make it the day before, refrigerate, put it in a crock pot to reheat on low for 3 hours or so (double batch) and then serve?
Lexy, it will work fine, just don’t put the tortellini in until the last hour or so.
Have you slightly changed the recipe? I thought originally there was white wine and a 29 oz. can of crushed tomatoes. Either way, it’s one of my favorite soup recipes.
You are right. I hired someone to go in and reformat my recipes and that must have gotten left off – sorry about that!
We love this soup too!!!
I’m never sure how to cook the Italian sausage…do you keep it in the casing while cooking, or remove from casing before cooking for the sausage/tortellini soup?
I buy the bulk, ground up sausage so it doesn’t have a casing on it. But if I was using a sausage with a casing I would remove the casing and cook up the sausage like hamburger meat.
Thanks Leigh Anne for a great recipe. Made it tonight and it was delicious, my husband had w big bowls. It tasted so good on a cold night.
So glad you enjoyed it!
Made this tonight with hot Italian sausage and my husband both agreed it was insanely delicious!!! This will be on the regular meal plan for sure 🙂
So glad it was a hit! Will have to try the hot Italian Sausage.
I made this last night for my man-boys and they loved it! I love the local store in Vancouver, Chucks Produce! I picked up the fresh ingredients there and learned that Chucks does not sell pork products. Therefore, I tried the chicken italian sausage and it was awesome! Chucks is closed on Saturdays; however, I believe that for those in Portland a quick trip across the bridge to visit this store would be time well spent. Thanks for the great recipe Leigh Ann!
So glad you enjoyed the soup. I’ll have to make a trip across the river and pay Chuck a visit!
I suggest that you go around lunch time, they have an awesome deli and great place to sit and eat. Enjoy!
This looks like it would be so yummy on a chilly day! I would LOVE for you to link this up at my Ginger Jamboree Link Party!!
Disney on Ice sounds so fun! I can’t wait until my baby is a little older and gets the magic of the holidays…I think Christmas is going to be fun this year though. 🙂 This soup looks amazing, I think it’s going on my menu plan for next week. Thanks for sharing!
I have some tortellini and sausauge in my freezer right now. This will be a perfect way to use them!
Enjoy dinner!!
In the updated version it doesn’t show white wine that one of the older reviewers mentioned. Is this in the revised recipe the water. It looks delicious, going to try next week.
The original recipe had it but I know just use water instead.
Would you be able to tell me exactly what Almond Bark is. Someone mentioned they have it at Wal-Mart–what section would it be in and is it called “Almond Bark”? It is something new to me and I just want to make sure I get the correct ingredient.
Thanks for your help.
Hi,
Love your site. I was wondering the same thing as the above comment. Can you be a bit more specific on quantity so I can make plans to make the popcorn?
Thanks!
I used about 16 cups of popped popcorn to a package of almond bark – hope this helps. Enjoy!
I was wondering what the quantities were for the candy corn popcorn. I know Walmart sells Almond bark (I think 1 1/2 pounds) but I want to ensure I am doing the right quantities. Also, you indicated a large bag of popcorn. I can certainly eyeball the candy corn but the other two are important so it isn’t too sweet. Thanks!!!
I think I have made that bread before. I got the recipe in one of those little cookbooks you buy at the grocery store, the ones by the checkout. I took them to work once and was accused of buying them, so I took them with the book the next time. The women raved over how they looked like the photo in the book. I have made the almond bark covered popcorn, too. I use lightly salted dry roasted peanuts and the small M&M’s in there. The mix is really great at Christmas with the colored M&Ms. I love this blog, thanks for sharing!!!
Jamie »
I use beef broth and if you aren’t using wine just add in more beef broth to replace it – enjoy!
Do you use the beef or chicken broth when you make yours and is there a substition for the white wine?
Thanks
I have really enjoyed your blog. You have great ideas and I think I am going to make your soup, popcorn and your fun mums in a pumpkin this week! Thanks for the inspiration.
That soup sounds fabulus. Especially with the nights and mornings being cooler. I’ll have to convert it to points in WW, but I bet it would work great! THANKS for sharing!
Robyn