Italian Wedding Soup with Penne Pasta. First, the pasta must be cooked separately; otherwise, it thickens and ruins the soup. If you don't plan on leftovers, the pasta can be cooked in the soup, but you need to go easy on the amount of pasta. Italian wedding soup is a quick and hearty dinner that only looks like you worked long and hard to make it.

Italian wedding soup is known for its flavorful meatballs with vegetables, spinach, and pasta in a delicious broth. This post may contain affiliate links. Wedding soup gets its name from an Italian phrase which is translated to "married soup". You can have Italian Wedding Soup with Penne Pasta using 12 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Italian Wedding Soup with Penne Pasta

1. You need 1 packet of Lipton Onion Soup Mix.
2. Prepare 1 pound of Lean Ground Beef.
3. Prepare 3 of whole medium carrots (sliced).
4. It's 1 of whole medium yellow onion (diced).
5. You need 2 teaspoon of minced garlic.
6. You need 1 of container/carton chicken broth.
7. Prepare 1 package (10 oz) of frozen chopped spinach.
8. It's of Black Pepper * depending on your desired taste.
9. You need of Kosher Salt * depending on your desired taste.
10. Prepare 1 1/2 cup of penne pasta (uncooked).
11. You need 1 tablespoon of olive oil.
12. You need of Shredded parmesan cheese.

If you've ever made Italian wedding soup, you've seen how the tiny pasta spheres, known as pastina or acini di pepe, are almost magically inflatable. If you are broth-averse, you can cook this soup the whole way through, adding the pasta before you portion it out and freeze it to let the pasta soak up all. Italian wedding soup is such a simple soup to make. The part that takes the most time is making the meatballs.

Italian Wedding Soup with Penne Pasta step by step

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. In a bowl, combine ground beef, lipton onion soup mix, minced garlic, and diced onion; mix well. Shape into desired meatball sizes.
3. Take a baking dish, and coat with cooking spray. Place meatball in baking dish, and cook for 20 mins (occasionally rotating meatballs).
4. In a fry pan lightly saute' sliced carrots in olive oil. Make sure not to burn carrots..
5. Bring chicken broth to a boil in a dutch oven pot, and add penne pasta. Cook pasta until tender.
6. Remove meatballs from oven, and drain on paper towel.
7. Add package of frozen spinach in with boiling penne pasta, and reduce heat, and stir occasionally.
8. Add sauteed carrots, and meatballs into dutch oven pot and stir.
9. Let simmer on low heat for about 10 mins.
10. When ready to eat garnish with shredded parmesan cheese..

You can use any combination of ground meat you like. A delicious and hearty soup made with bite size herbed beef and pork meatballs, veggies and acini de pepe pasta. It may not be pictured as a finishing garnish, but don't leave it off! Stick with tiny pasta, I love how it sets this soup apart. Want to see how easy this.