Best Zesty Italian Soup Recipes

ZESTY ITALIAN HAMBURGER HELPER SOUP

Steps:

• Spray the inside of a Dutch oven or soup kettle, with a no-stick cooking spray.
• In the Dutch oven or kettle, add the ground beef, and season beef with a bit of black pepper. (Do not add salt to this recipe!).
• Brown the ground beef three quarters of the way, over medium heat; stirring to break up the meat.
• Add the onions, and sprinkle onions with a bit of the pepper, then add the garlic.
• Finish browning the beef and cooking the onions and garlic, this will just take a minute or two.
• In the meantime, cook the frozen green beans in a microwave, till they are about three quarters of the way done; drain beans and set them aside. (Note: I sprinkled the green beans with a bit of black pepper, before microwaving them.).
• Add the following ingredients to the kettle of cooked beef, the seasoning packet from the boxed hamburger helper, the beef broth, stewed tomatoes, the Rotel Tomatoes, zucchini, sliced baby carrots, whole kernel corn, the cooked green beans, and the Italian seasoning.
• Bring soup to a boil, then reduce heat to a low simmer, cover, and simmer the soup for 10 minutes.
• Uncover the kettle, stir the soup, and add the package of penne pasta, that's included in the box of hamburger helper.
• Bring soup to a second boil, then reduce the heat to a low simmer, cover, and simmer the soup for 15 minutes.
• Remove soup from heat, stir the soup, and serve.
• Note: I noticed after making this soup and using the 6.4 oz. box of Italian Lasagna Hamburger Helper (with the mini lasagna noodles in the box) verses the Zesty Italian (which adds mini penne pasta to the box), the next day when I reheated the soup, I had to add a bit more liquid, as the soup had thickened, and it had the consistency of a goulash. Since the mini lasagna noodles seem to absorb the liquid, I added more broth (a 1/2 cup) plus I added some V-8 Spicy Hot Vegetable Juice.

ZESTY ITALIAN SOUP

Steps:

• In a large skillet, cook sausage over medium heat until no longer pink; drain. , Transfer to a 5-qt. slow cooker. Stir in the broth, beans, tomatoes, carrot, jalapeno, Italian seasoning and garlic. , Cover and cook on low for 7-8 hours or until heated through. Just before serving, stir in macaroni.

ZESTY ITALIAN HAMBURGER HELPER SOUP

Steps:

• 1. Spray the inside of a Dutch oven or soup kettle, with a no-stick cooking spray.
• 2. In the Dutch oven or kettle, add the ground beef, and season beef with a bit of black pepper. (Do not add salt to this recipe!)
• 3. Brown the ground beef three quarters of the way, over medium heat; stirring to break up the meat.
• 4. Add the onions, and sprinkle onions with a bit of the pepper, then add the garlic.
• 5. Finish browning the beef and cooking the onions and garlic, this will just take a minute or two.
• 6. In the meantime, cook the frozen green beans in a microwave, till they are about three quarters of the way done; drain beans and set them aside.(Note: I sprinkled the green beans with a bit of black pepper, before microwaving them.)
• 7. Add the following ingredients to the kettle of cooked beef, the seasoning packet from the boxed hamburger helper, the beef broth, stewed tomatoes, the Rotel Tomatoes, zucchini, sliced baby carrots, whole kernel corn, the cooked green beans, and the Italian seasoning.
• 8. Bring soup to a boil, then reduce heat to a low simmer, cover, and simmer the soup for 10 minutes.
• 9. Uncover the kettle, stir the soup, and add the package of penne pasta, that's included in the box of hamburger helper.
• 10. Bring soup to a second boil, then reduce the heat to a low simmer, cover, and simmer the soup for 15 minutes.
• 11. Remove soup from heat, stir the soup, and serve.
• 12. Note: I noticed after making this soup and using the 6.4 oz. box of Italian Lasagna Hamburger Helper (with the mini lasagna noodles in the box) verses the Zesty Italian (which adds mini penne pasta to the box), the next day when I reheated the soup, I had to add a bit more liquid, as the soup had thickened, and it had the consistency of a goulash. Since the mini lasagna noodles seem to absorb the liquid, I added more broth (a 1/2 cup) plus I added some V-8 Spicy Hot Vegetable Juice.

ZESTY ITALIAN SOUP

Steps:

• Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in cooker. Cook sausage, drain, and set aside. Add remaining tablespoon olive oil to pressure cooker and sauté onion and garlic. Do not brown. Add barley, stir, and cook for one minute. Stir in browned sausage, lentils, uncooked chicken breast, and parsley. Add enough chicken stock to cover ingredients in cooker. Lock lid and bring to full pressure. Adjust heat, maintaining pressure, and cook for 9 minutes. Remove from heat and quick-release pressure. Open cooker. Remove chicken, shred meat and return to cooker, discarding skin and bones. Add remaining chicken broth, garbanzo beans, spinach and salsa to soup mixture and heat thoroughly.