Creamy Lasagna Cheese Tortellini Soup

This creamy lasagna tortellini soup recipe has a savory tomato and chicken broth base. It's loaded with seasoned ground beef and cheesy tortellini pasta. A super quick and easy one pot family dinner everyone will love.

Recipe first published on 10/18/2018.

Cloudy days and cool weather can only mean one thing.  A hearty, cozy bowl of creamy lasagna cheese tortellini soup! This easy tortellini soup recipe takes less than an hour to make.

It's the perfect during-the-week dinner. It makes for a great Monday night dinner when your week is just starting.

This tortellini soup is my husbands absolute favorite thing I make. (Aside from this spaghetti bolognese.) He requests this every single week, even in the middle of summer when it's hot and a cucumber avocado salad kind of day.

This one pot recipe is like having all the comfort of lasagna with 90% less work.  I think we can all agree, that's a dinner win.

For the ingredients, you'll find this has a lot of the same traditional lasagna ingredients in it. And for the ricotta cheese, the cheese tortellinis have got that covered since it's a traditional tortellini ingredient.

I like the five cheese tortellini's from Costco (it comes in a big double container for like 10 dollars), you can freeze them and use them as you need.

 What's In Creamy Lasagna Tortellini Soup

Such a little list of ingredients for such big, delicious flavors! Here's everything you'll need to make it.

The full recipe with instructions and ingredients is listed below in the recipe card.

• ground beef - whatever type of ground beef is fine, I like to use the 90/10 so there is less grease to remove
• garlic cloves - minced, in a pinch you can use garlic powder but fresh garlic will taste better
• onion - half an onion, preferably a yellow onion, they are sweeter and taste better in this soup
• garlic powder, onion powder, dried basil, dried oregano - all the herbs you will be adding, this gives the soup that delicious Italian taste
• salt and pepper - for enhancing all the flavors, I like to use kosher salt
• crushed tomatoes - a 14 ounce can of crushed tomatoes
• chicken broth - you can use a carton of chicken broth, can of chicken broth, whatever method you like best but for this recipe I use a carton of low sodium organic chicken broth
• heavy cream - to make the tortellini soup creamy and take away a bit of the bitter taste from the tomato
• cheese tortellinis - you can use fresh or frozen tortellinis and can also swap out the cheese tortellinis for a spinach tortellini if you like

 How To Make Creamy Lasagna Tortellini Soup

Make sure to pick a pot large enough that will hold all of your soup because you only need the one pot for this entire tortellini soup recipe.

Start by browning the ground beef and getting rid of any excess grease.

You could do this by using paper towels to soak up the grease or a spoon to scoop it out. Just hold your pot on a slant and all the grease will fall to the other side.

Mix in the diced onions, minced garlic and dried herbs.

Saute everything on a low heat for 5 minutes, until the onions have softened.

Next add in the can of crushed tomatoes and chicken broth.

Bring this to a boil, then reduce your heat to low for simmering, cover for 30 minutes. This is where it will build some flavor.

The last step is to add the cream and tortellinis. Once the tortellinis have cooked, it's done! Tortellinis only take a couple minutes to cook. Once they are puffy and float to the surface, they are done.

You can sprinkle on some fresh parmesan cheese.

 How To Get The Most Flavor

Since this is such an easy, under 1 hour recipe, it's important to not skip any steps or ingredients.

The broth for the tortellini soup is both chicken broth and crushed tomatoes from a can.

To help build flavor you need to simmer the tomato and chicken broth with the vegetables and ground beef for 30 minutes. Don't go stingy on the time and knock it down to 10 minutes.

And instead of a boxed chicken broth, I'll sometimes use water mixed with some chicken better than bouillon which is my favorite go to for broth.

It's a thick paste, sold in jar, lasts forever and is really flavorful. You do need to cut back on salt when you use it though, so keep that in mind. I use it in this minestrone soup and beef stroganoff.

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