This Cheese Tortellini Soup is a flavorful, easy slow cooker meal. Tortellini, sausage, and spinach in a creamy tomato soup and slow cooked to perfection.
I love using pasta in soup! I think it gives it such a good texture and it makes it more filling. Sometimes using soup as a main dish doesn’t fill me up, but with the sausage and the pasta, this soup definitely does. Make sure that you drain the sausage really well — the soup will turn out greasy if you don’t.
This soup is so simple and it is easy to tailor to your family’s preferences. For a vegetarian variation, you can use mushrooms instead of sausage and substitute vegetable stock for chicken broth. If you like your food spicy, you can add a few shakes of red pepper flakes to the crock pot before cooking. To make it a little healthier, you can use turkey sausage and non or low fat cream cheese. If you use neufachtel (1/3 fat of cream cheese) be prepared that it doesn’t melt as well and leaves little curds. This soup pairs well with a green salad and a toasted bread that you can dip in the soup.
Cheese Tortellini Soup
Ingredients
Instructions
- Put all ingredients in the crockpot.
- Cook on low for 4-6 hours.
- Stir well before serving.
This soup sounds great. Thank you and have a wonderful week!
What size crock pot is needed for this?
A 5-6 quart crock pot works great. Thanks for asking!
How many servings does this recipe make?
It makes about 4 servings.
Do you put the tortellini in the crockpot when it is frozen or thaw it out first?
frozen is fine
I don’t think I would like fresh spinach cooked for so many hours. Wouldn’t it be better to add it near the end?
The first time I made this, my son asked me if that was moss in the soup! So, I do add it near the end. It holds up better. This soup is delicious!
Haha! No one wants moss in their soup! Adding it at the end is a great idea. I’m so glad you like the soup. Thank you!
I made the in the crockpot the first time; never again as it doesn’t need to cook that long especially the tortellini. I make on the stove top basically after you cook the meat your just heating everything up and I melt down my cream cheese befor I put in my pot.
This sounds wonderful.
This looks delicious! How many servings does this make?
Thanks!
This recipe makes 4-6 servings of soup (4 larger servings, 6 average servings). Thanks for asking!
Do you have the nutritional information for this recipe?
We don’t have the nutritional info for many of our recipes but you can plus them in on an online calculator like FitBit or Livestrong.com
Can you cook this on the stove? thank you.
Sure, you will just want to adjust the times accordingly
How long will this last in the refrigerator? Can it be frozen if made in advance?
This will last up to a week in the refrigerator. The pasta does not freeze well – sorry! Thanks for asking!
Do you use bulk sausage or lnks?i
We use bulk sausage in this recipe. Thanks for asking!
Can you double this recipe?
Yes, of course! You will need a larger crock pot, or to cook it in two crock pots.
Made this the other night and it was delicious, even without the sausage. Of course, the meat lover was a tad disappointed, but said it was still worth making again. Next time, I’ll add the sausage.