Spinach Tortellini Soup

Published in Recipes by Chere Bork MS, RDN on January 10, 2013
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You can easily keep the ingredients on hand. Just keep the tortellini in your freezer. All you need to buy is the fresh spinach. This paired with a salad is the perfect lunch for you and your company.

In a hurry to prepare a quick lunch? No problem!  Company coming? No problem! This soup recipe from the Five Ingredients for Healthy Living Cookbook provides tasty comfort food nutrition fast.

  • 4 cups low sodium chicken broth
  • 5 oz fresh or frozen cheese tortellini
  • 1 cup fresh baby spinach leaves
  • 2 green onions, sliced thin
  • Dash cayenne pepper to taste

Bring broth to a boil in a medium saucepan. Add tortellini and cook according to package directions. Stir in spinach and green onions, cooking until spinach wilts, about 2 minutes. Add cayenne pepper and adjust seasonings to your taste. Makes four servings.

Nutrition: 121 Calories:  6 gm Protein;  2.6 gm Fat; 18.3 gm Carbohydrate; 500 mg Sodium 

Soup is also a proven weight loss tool. Read more.

Sally McClellan and I enjoyed lunch and warm conversation. There is nothing like discovering more about a person than over a meal; especially a bowl of warm soup.

 

From Chere Bork

I love my life! I have a passion and a purpose to share my recipe for health and happiness with RDNs and others – maybe even more so now that I’ve officially retired. If you want to learn what I discovered through coaching 1000 people over 9000 hours check out my final post, “Live Like This Is Your Last Day. Someday It Will Be!”

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