Some Italian Wedding Soup Facts

Italian wedding soup is an Italian American recipe containing meat and green vegetables. Wedding soup is actually a mistranslation of "minestra maritata" which means green vegetables and meat. Wedding soup has been popular in parts of Spain for a long time but the traditional Spanish recipe contained much more meat.

This Italian wedding soup recipe contains chicken broth, pasta and carrot, celery, onion and spinach for flavor and texture. It contains meatballs as well as chicken. This hearty recipe for Italian wedding soup makes a delicious appetizer or can be served in larger portions for an whole meal. It is nice served with warm, crusty bread and salted butter.

Italian Wedding Soup Recipe

Ingredients -

1 lb chopped chicken breast, no skin or bones
2 chopped ribs celery
1 cup dry breadcrumbs
2 chopped onions
48 fl oz can chicken broth
1 egg
3 oz dry pasta
2 cups chopped carrot
10 oz frozen spinach - thawed, drained and chopped
1 lb ground beef
Salt and black pepper, to taste

Preparation:

Put the broth, onions, spinach, celery and carrots in a soup pot over a medium heat and stir well.

Let the mixture simmer while you make the meatballs.

Combine the breadcrumbs, ground beef and egg in a bowl and mix well.

Shape the mixture into ½ inch diameter meatballs and drop them into the soup carefully.

Add the chicken breast chunks to the soup and turn the heat down to low.

Let it simmer for an hour.

Add the pasta half an hour before you serve the soup.

Season with salt and black pepper and serve hot.

(Serves 6)

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A Picture of our Italian Wedding Soup Recipe. Wedding soup is a wonderful blend of traditionally inspired Italian soup with an American flavor. Many of what we think of as traditional are actual recipes created by immigrants to America and that is the case with this wonderful Italian American soup.