Italian
Italian Wedding Soup
Italian Wedding Soup is Italian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the soup. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 1/2 lb ground beef
- 1/2 lb ground pork
- 1/2 cup Italian breadcrumbs
- 1 large egg
- 3/4 cup grated parmesan
- 1 cup acini di pepe pasta
- 8 cups chicken broth
- 4 cups baby spinach
- 2 carrots
- 2 celery stalks
- 1 onion
- 3 garlic cloves
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Mix the beef, pork, breadcrumbs, egg, half the parmesan, and a pinch of salt, then roll into small meatballs.
- Heat the olive oil in a large pot and soften the diced carrots, celery, onion, and garlic, about 6 minutes.
- Pour in the chicken broth, season with salt, and bring to a gentle boil.
- Drop in the meatballs and simmer until cooked through, about 10 minutes.
- Stir in the acini di pepe and cook until tender, about 8 minutes.
- Add the spinach and cook until wilted, about 2 minutes.
- Serve topped with the remaining parmesan.
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Italian Wedding Soup carries dairy, gluten, and eggs. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Chicken Cacciatore |
| Gluten | Yes | Butternut Squash Risotto |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | Yes | Butternut Squash Risotto |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Meat or fish, Grains, Egg, Dairy, and Vegetables
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Italian Wedding Soup takes about 60 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a proper project. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. It is at its best in the fall and winter, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on meatball, pasta, and spinach.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Cook this with your whole family
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