Slow Cooker Minestrone Soup with Tortellini

Slow cooker minestrone soup with tortellini is a hearty dish your family will love. Packed with veggies, protein, and noodles, it's a feast!

Prep Time25

Cook Time3 30

Total Time3 55

Servings: servings

Calories: 299kcal

Author: Karin and Ken

Ingredients

1 pound cooked ground italian sausage
2 cans (15 oz) crushed tomatoes
⅓ cup sun dried tomatoes in olive oil
8 medium red potatoes
3 large carrots
5 stalks of celery
½ yellow onion
5 cloves garlic
1 tablespoon italian seasoning
2 bay leaves
4 cups vegetable stock
2 cups water
1 can (15 oz) dark red kidney beans
1 can (15 oz) great northern beans
1 cups sliced zucchini
2 cups tortellini
1 cup frozen green beans
2 cups spinach
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pepper
fresh parmesan cheese to garnish

Instructions

Get out and measure all of your ingredients.
Get out your skillet and cook your ground sausage or whichever ground meat you're using until no longer pink. Set aside.
Dice carrots, celery, onion, potatoes and zucchini. Set aside.
Lightly grease the bottom of a 6-quart or larger slow cooker.
Add the ground sausage.
crushed tomatoes,
sun dried tomatoes, carrots, celery,
potatoes, onion, garlic, seasonings and bay leaves into the slow cooker.
Add vegetable stock and water and stir lightly.
Cover the slow cooker and cook on high for 3-4 hours or on low for 6-8 hours.
After cook time is complete, remove lid and stir.
Add kidney beans, great northern beans, zucchini, green beans and spinach. Cook on high for 30 minutes.
While the soup is cooking, cook the tortellini according to package directions.
Drain.
When soup has completed cooking, you can prepare your bowls.
Place tortellini in the bottom of a soup bowl. You want to keep the pasta separate from the soup until serving so pasta doesn't ruin. Use a ladle to pour soup over tortellini.
As big or as little a bowl as you would like.
Garnish with fresh parmesan cheese over top.
Enjoy every bite!
Store soup and pasta separately until needed.

Notes

Store soup and pasta separately until needed.

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