Your Tuesday moment of recipe

[adelheid_p]

Today I fixed Tortellini Soup. This was a dish I had over the weekend at a potluck dinner. The recipes for all the very good dishes were exchanged and I decided that because the weather was raining and cold, that soup would be a good idea so I stopped at the store on my way home for the ingredients.

The recipe as written was for:
2 28 oz cans of diced tomatoes or 4 14.5 oz cans of diced tomatoes (the person who sent the recipe likes to used the basil and oregano or garlic spiced tomatoes)
2 cans of chicken broth
1 pound hot Italian turkey sausage
1 12 oz bag of frozen cheese tortellini
garlic and onion powder
1/2 tsp fennel seed
salt and pepper to taste

If the sausage is in casings, remove it from the casings. Brown the sausage in a little olive oil. When the sausage is browned, add the tomatoes, chicken broth, fennel seed, and garlic and onion powder to taste. Simmer for 30 minutes then add the frozen tortellini and cook for 10 more minutes.

My variation was to saute chopped onion and garlic then add the sausage (I used 20 oz of sausage because that's what came in one package of Honeysuckle Hot Italian turkey sausage links. When the sausage was browned I added the two 28 oz cans of diced tomatoes, one 32 oz container of lower sodium and fat free chicken broth, 10 ounces of Italian green beans, 1/2 tsp fennel and a generous portion of Italian Seasoning and cooked it for 30 minutes then I added the frozen tortellini and cooked it for 10 more minutes. I served it with baked refrigerated crescent rolls and grated Romano cheese for topping. It makes enough to serve about 8 adults.

Comments

[mewsrissicat.livejournal.com]

It makes enough to serve about 8 adults.

Or one each of Ryan and Kevin.

[adelheid-p.livejournal.com]

I see you've fed he-mouth. :-) Actually, Ryan eats more than Kevin. I'd say if Ryan and April were here it would just feed the four of us.

[mewsrissicat.livejournal.com]

I get a free half-ham this week.

... We'll see who drops first.

XD

[adelheid-p.livejournal.com]

No matter what, I'm sure Ryan will be hungry 4 hours later.

[theyarnproject.livejournal.com]

All of my family (minus me), would LOVE this. Being vegetarian, I am out, on this. But, I will pass it on, to the family =)

[adelheid-p.livejournal.com]

Well, I bet a vegetarian variation can be made --instead of sausage use either lentils or cannellini beans and veggie broth plus maybe tomato puree.

My husband is a self-described "meatatarian" and just plain doesn't like legumes much so I only get to experiment with vegetarian options when I'm cooking for other people --usually my daughter who has had vegetarian phases and when not vegetarian, she won't eat beef or pork except in extremely rare instances.