Slow Cooker Tortellini Minestrone Soup is so easy to make and tastes incredible! Full of vegetables, protein packed beans and cheese tortellini, this soup is filling comfort food in a bowl.
A classic minestrone soup with a tortellini twist! RECIPE INCLUDES stove top method!
Minestrone Soup
The whole entire family LOVES THIS Slow Cooker Tortellini Minestrone Soup! This is one of those recipes where I probably shouldn’t call it a certain name (Minestrone) because I’ve swapped something for something else — in this case, an even better and more delicious swap in the form of tortellini.
After publishing this insanely popular Creamy Tortellini Soup, we had a few bags of tortellini lying around that were meant to be emergency stashes for our video. Didn’t need them = lying around tortellini > wanted minestrone > made it > thought ‘what would happen if I added tortellini to my soup?’
A miracle.
HOW DO YOU MAKE TORTELLINI MINESTRONE SOUP?
Tortellini Minestrone soup can’t get any easier…especially when done in the slow cooker. All you’re going to do is throw onions, carrots, celery, green beans, tomatoes, garlic, zucchini, butternut squash (or diced pumpkin) and spinach in a slow cooker. Feel free to swap out veggies for your favourites (peas, corn, potatoes, kale, etc).
There is so much flavour here just from using fire roasted tomatoes with tomato paste, chicken stock, herbs and parmesan rind.
Tortellini is added at the end of cooking because they don’t need long at all.
Don’t have a slow cooker? NO WORRIES. I’ve included a stove top method too.
Kids and adults alike love this soup! Make a double batch of the soup without the tortellini, and freeze in serving sizes in air tight containers. When you’re ready to serve, warm up each batch in the microwave or in a pot over medium-low heat. Add the tortellini before serving.
Serve Minestrone soup with parmesan cheese and easy garlic bread to mop up the broth.
There’s nothing like a good, hearty soup on a cold, miserable winter night!
Try these other tortellini recipes!
Slow Cooker Creamy Tortellini Soup
Creamy Tomato Tortellini Soup with Spinach
Tortellini with Chunky Beef Sauce
Slow Cooker Tortellini Minestrone Soup
Ingredients
- 1 white onion large, diced
- 2 carrots large, diced
- 1 celery stalk large, diced
- 1 ½ cups green beans fresh, cut into three pieces
- 2 cups pumpkin or butternut squash, diced, optional - swap for potatoes if desired
- 6 cloves garlic chopped OR minced
- ¼ cup tomato paste
- 32 ounces crushed fire roasted tomatoes diced
- 6 cups low sodium vegetable stock or broth
- 1 pinch salt to taste
- 1 pinch pepper to taste
- 2 tablespoons Italian dried herbs
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- 2 teaspoons crushed bouillon cube or stock powder
- 3 tablespoons fresh parsley chopped
- 1 teaspoon sugar optional - offsets the acidity from the tomatoes
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 parmesan rind
- 2 large zucchini diced
- 15 oz white navy beans, cannellini beans drained and rinsed
- 15 oz red kidney beans drained and rinsed
- 12 oz three cheese tortellini fresh or dried
- 2 cups baby spinach loosely packed
- parmesan cheese shredded, for serving, or Romano
Instructions
SLOW COOKER:
- To a 6qt (or litre) slow cooker bowl, add the onions, carrots, celery, green beans, butternut squash (or potatoes), garlic, tomato paste, tomatoes, broth (or stock), salt, pepper, Italian herbs, basil, parsley, stock powder, parsley, sugar (if using), and mix well to combine. Add in the bay leaves, cover and cook on low heat 6-8 hours or high 3-4 hours.
- Once cooked, add in the parmesan rind*, zucchini, white beans, red beans, and tortellini.
- Cook on high heat for an additional 25-30 minutes (for dried tortellini) or 10-15 minutes (for fresh tortellini) until pasta is tender and cooked through.
- Stir in the spinach, cover and allow to wilt in the heat for an additional 5 minutes. Add in 1-2 cups of extra water (or broth) if the soup is too thick for your liking.
- Serve warm topped with parmesan (or Romano) cheese.
STOVE TOP:
- Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a large saucepan or soup pot over medium-high heat. Add the onion, carrots and celery; sauté until onion is transparent.
- Add in the green beans and garlic, and cook until the garlic is fragrant (a further 30 seconds). Pour in the broth (stock), tomatoes and tomato paste.
- Add the dried herbs and parsley, bay leaves, stock powder, sugar, parmesan rind, and season with salt and pepper to your tastes. Bring to a boil, cover with lid and reduce heat to low-medium.
- Gently simmer while stirring occasionally for 20 minutes. Add in all of the beans, zucchini and tortellini. Cover again and simmer for a further 25 minutes, or until pasta is tender. Add the spinach and allow to wilt through the heat of the pot.
- Serve warm topped with parmesan (or Romano) cheese.
Nylah says
I made this recipe and used diced Yukon gold potatoes. I browned some Isernio’s Hot Italian Chicken Sausage and added at the end. Fantastic!