This easy Sausage Tortellini Soup is a cozy one-pot meal that comes together quickly, making it ideal for busy weeknights. It’s a complete, satisfying high-protein dinner the whole family will love.
Sausage Tortellini Soup
I love this cozy Sausage Tortellini Soup when the weather turns cold. It’s a hearty, high protein main dish soup – perfect for cool evenings or when you want a meal that feels comforting without a lot of effort. Made with cheese-filled tortellini, spinach, and sausage, this soup feels like a warm hug. If you don’t like sausage, try some of my other tortellini soups, like Spinach Tortellini en Brodo, Meatball Tortellini Soup, and Three Cheese Tortellini and Mushroom Soup.
Why You’ll Love This Tortellini Soup
It’s funny because when I feel sick, this is the soup I crave! There’s something about those little tortellini swimming in the broth I find so comforting. Here’s more reason’s to love this soup:
- Hearty: The serving size is a huge bowl, very filling!
- One-Pot: An easy dinner made all in one pot.
- Customizable: You can easily switch up the soup by adding extra vegetables or using different types of tortellini or sausage.
- Kid-Friendly – It’s kid-friendly (Madison and Karina love it!) It’s so nice to make a meal everyone enjoys.
- Dietary Restrictions: Weight Watchers-friendly and high-protein.
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Tortellini Soup Ingredients
Here’s everything you need to make this tortellini soup recipe. The exact measurements are in the recipe card below.
- Sausage: Remove the casings from sweet Italian chicken or pork sausage links. Premio is my favorite brand. I usually use their chicken sausage.
- Mirepoix is chopped celery, onion, and carrot, which are the base for this soup.
- Garlic adds a rich, aromatic depth to the broth.
- Liquid: Use unsalted chicken bone broth and water.
- Better Than Bouillon provides more flavor since we’re using reduced- sodium broth.
- Parmigiano Reggiano Rind is optional for flavor, it infuses the broth as it breaks down in the soup. Whenever I finish a block of parmesan, I always freeze the rinds to have on hand for future recipes.
- Black Pepper for seasoning
- Tortellini: I used Buitoni’s three-cheese tortellini, but any brand will work.
- Spinach for extra vegetables
- Parmigiano Reggiano: Top your tortellini soup with grated cheese, if desired.
How to Make Sausage Tortellini Soup
This simple sausage spinach tortellini soup cooks in one pot, making cleanup easy. Scroll to the bottom for the complete instructions.
- Brown the sausage in a large pot until cooked through.
- Vegetables: Sauté the celery, onion, carrots, and garlic until they begin to soften.
- Boil: Pour in the broth and water with the parmesan rind. Increase the heat to medium-high and bring to a boil.
- Simmer: Once boiling, add the bouillon and pepper. Cover and simmer on medium-low for 15 to 20 minutes.
- Tortellini and Spinach: Reduce the heat to low and add the tortellini and spinach. Cook until al dente, then remove the rind.
Variations
This tortellini soup with sausage is versatile and can be customized to suit your preferences.
- Meat: Replace chicken sausage with turkey, pork, or soy. You could also use ground turkey or beef with extra seasoning, like salt, onion powder, and dried Italian herbs.
- Vegetarian Tortellini Soup: Omit the sausage and add more veggies.
- Tortellini: Use ravioli or spinach tortellini.
- Dairy-Free: Replace tortellini with pasta, like orecchiette or farfalle, and skip the parmesan rind.
- Heartier Soup: For more substance, add canned beans or extra vegetables, like zucchini, bell pepper, or canned diced tomatoes.
- Bone broth: I use unsalted chicken bone broth to add more protein. You could also use chicken or vegetable broth.
- Leafy Greens: Sub kale or Swiss chard for spinach.
Serving Suggestions
This hearty sausage and tortellini soup would be great with a crusty piece of bread or a green salad on the side.
Storage
- Refrigerate leftover soup for 4 days.
- Freeze soup in single-serving airtight containers for 3 months.
- Thaw the soup in the fridge overnight and microwave until warm.
More Soup Recipes You’ll Love
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- Chicken Noodle Soup
- Broccoli Cheddar Soup
- Butternut Squash Soup
- Lasagna Soup
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Sausage Tortellini Soup
Ingredients
- 8 ounces sweet chicken Italian Sausage, or pork sausage, I like Premio, removed from casing
- 1 stalk celery, chopped
- ½ small onion, chopped
- 1 carrot, peeled and chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 32 ounce container unsalted chicken bone broth, such as Pacific
- 1 ½ cups water
- 1 small Parmigiano Reggiano Rind, optional
- ½ tablespoon Chicken Better than Bouillon, *
- ¼ teaspoon fresh black pepper
- 9 ounces three cheese tortellini, Buitoni
- 1 cup baby spinach
- Parmigiano Reggiano, grated for serving (optional)
Instructions
- Heat a large pot over medium-low heat and add the sausage. Cook, breaking up with a spoon until cooked through, 5 minutes. Add the celery, onion, carrot and garlic. Cook for 8-10 minutes until vegetables begin to soften.
- Add the chicken broth, water, parmesan cheese rind (if using) and increase heat to medium-high and bring to a boil.
- When broth boils, add the Bouillon and black pepper. Stir to combine, cover and cook medium low simmer 15 to 20 minutes, until the vegetables are soft.
- Reduce heat to low and add the tortellini and spinach. Simmer until tortellini cooks to al dente according to package directions, about 5 to 6 minutes. Once cooked, remove the rind.
- Stir to combine then serve with freshly grated Parmigiano Reggiano (if using)!
Really delicious and comforting. I’ll definitely make this again.
I made this however added another carton of broth and used chicken tortellini because my family is allergic to cheese. This soup is delicious and I will definitely make again! I did need to give the vegetable a little extra time to soften but other than that it was ok.
I haven’t even finished it yet and it is already delicious. A member of my huge family doesn’t like sausage and 2 do not eat pork or beef so I substituted chicken meatballs to make everyone happy! Kale is my green, it just goes in earlier. Thank you for this simple and wonderful recipe.
This soup was as usual fantastic and simple to make! I paired it with your sourdough bread which took days to make and was not exactly simple 🤣but also came out utterly incredible! Thank you again❤️
My go to tortellini soup recipe!
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LOVE this soup. I didn’t change a thing, but realized after I made it that I put in 1/2 tsp. of Chicken Better than Bouillon rather than 1/2 TBS. It was delicious in spite of my error 🙂 The broth of this soup if delicious, and I can’t wait to make it again!! Thanks, Gina, for yet another wonderful recipe. I appreciate you!!
Thanks Denise!
A hit with the family on a chilly night! I used ground beef since we didn’t have sausage and it was very tasty still.
Delicious soup refioe. Light, tasty and healthy.
Great taste but tortellini got mushy and next day absorbed all the broth to make it- not soup. Will make it again but leave out the tortellini until last minute and only for what we will serve that meal.
This is probably by 20th recipe I have made from Skinnytaste, and I seriously have not had one that wasn’t amazing. This one was so easy and so tasty. The parm cheese made it! Thanks so much for all these amazing recipes!!
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Just made this and oh so easy and delicious. I have to say I’ve been a Skinnytaste fan for 10 years. I’ve made almost everything you publish. Lately it has been so hard navigating your website with all of the pop-ups. It resets where I’m located in the recipe and I have to find where I’m at in the middle of cooking. Just letting you know as a viewer that it can be quite frustrating. Love your recipes though!!
Let me look into this, something must be up. Is this on your phone, desktop or ipad?
Both Phone and IPad, thank you for looking into it!
Delicious!
I added some black beans and a whole package of chicken sausage and spinach. Great meal with weather getting colder.
Delicious! Perfect soup, easy to make and ideal for empty nesters or smaller families. I made exact to recipe with just 2 swaps: I used a 14.5 can of Trader Joe’s organic diced no salt added tomatoes instead of water and kale instead of spinach. My husband loved it too! Perfect meal.
Thanks Stephanie!
I was thinking of making this tonight. I was thinking of blending a can of beans with the broth. Can’t wait to try
This soup was awesome! Super easy to make and full of flavour — perfect comfort food for a busy night. The sausage adds great depth, and the tortellini makes it nice and hearty. Definitely adding this one to my regular winter dinner rotation!
Easy to make and soooo good! One of my daughter’s (age 16) favorites. She ate 2 bowls full!
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I am making this again tomorrow and realized I didn’t review it yet. This soup is so easy to make but is absolutely delicious. My daughter and son-in-law love it and they have colds so making a big batch.
Hope they feel better soon! ♥
I loved this recipe! Double batch. Used kale, more spices and Northern white beans. Also used Johnsonville Sausages after removing casings. Kinda early for soup in Charlotte but oh well… definitely add to my winter soup list. Thank you!
Delicious and easy! I’ve used both sweet and spicy Italian sausage and my family loves it.
Made this last night and it was a hit! I accidentally put 1 lb of meat in. Still good and really meaty. Wil definitely make again.
Very good
Delicious and easy! I followed the recipe with zero changes.
Hi Gina! Is the serving size 1.75 cups or .75 cups?
Thanks!!
Hey Sonya! It is 1¾ cups.
This recipe is amazing! No joke we’ve made this 3 times in the past month. About to make it again!
My toddler asks for this soup on a weekly basis! I love this recipe. We’ve also substituted chorizo for the sausage and it was good. No matter how you make it it’s delicious!!
Love this one, make it all the time 🧡
Delicious soup, and very easy to make. I didn’t have the cheese rind but we added some zucchini since we had it on hand. Perfect for cold nights!
Made this tonight and wow! So good! And filling! I completely forgot to add the water and it still turned out great! Definitely on my make again list! Thank you!
Made this for the first. Followed recipe as noted-no rind. Family really enjoyed it! Will be making again 👍
Perfect for a cold winter night! I doubled the recipe so we’d have leftovers for the weekend. Absolutely yummy, exactly as written. Thank you!
How many servings
4
This was perfect comfort food for a cold winter day!
Excellent recipe. I didn’t have the rind so (slowly!) added about 1/4 cup of grated Parmesan prior to the tortellini. Also doubled the spinach. Delicious.
Absolutely amazing! I’ll be making this again!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love this recipe!! I’ve made this 3 or 4 times now and it’s very very good. It’s pretty easy to make, kid approved and makes great leftovers. I use Italian flavored ground turkey and it’s delicious.
Wow! It has to be good when I have the leftovers for breakfast. It’s amazing how something so simple can taste this good. I suspect the parmesan rind imparts a lot of flavor. For those that wonder where to get one, I’ve seen them sold at Whole Foods. I followed the recipe to the letter, using bulk mild sausage, which also likely enriched the flavor and had that extra fat in the pan to soften the veggies. I also used the Pacific brand broth and added the low sodium Better Than Bouillon. It was hearty and rich tasting. The freshly grated parm was perfect over top. This is hearty enough to stand on its own as a dinner meal.
Soup is easy to make and quick, especially for a weeknight meal when I pre-bought The celery, onion, and carrots already pre-cut.
Yum! Best, tasty , comfort soup! A hit with my family. Will definitely be in rotation. I doubled so my husband can take for lunch tomorrow.
This soup was so easy and filling. Absolutely delicious!
This soup was amazing – super delicious with so much flavor. It was quite easy to make, especially having a food chopper for the vegetables. I used hot pork sausage. This recipe is definitely a keeper!
So delicious. I had some Zatarain’s smoky chicken sausage on hand, so used that – I’ll do the very same again.
Made this tonight and it was a hit! Doubled the recipe and used both pork sausage and chicken sausage since I had each on hand. I used regular low sodium chicken broth and added petite diced tomatoes; I also chopped the spinach. Unfortunately I didn’t have a cheese rind. I did add a few bay leaves. Definitely making this again!
So easy and delicious!
Delicious loved it!
Made this for dinner tonight after a long week at work. It was simple and delicious! Definitely going to make this again.
This was fantastic! Everyone loved it. I did add some crushed red pepper and Italian seasoning for personal preference. Everything else was as written.
Amazing!! I added a 1/2 a chopped red bell pepper with the veggies and extra carrot & celery & then also added a can of fire roasted diced tomatoes with the bouillon. The broth is fabulous and I think it was the parmesan rind. Thank you for this wonderful soup recipe!!
Can I make this in a crock pot?!
Sure!
Delicious. Putting this into regular rotation
This was delicious! Added a bay leaf and omitted spinach. It’s a keeper.
Hands down one of my favorite recipes I’ve ever made from Skinnytaste 🙂 Super easy and great flavor. I made some fresh bread to go with it and it was incredible!
Thanks Kate!
Followed recipe exactly. It was delicious and filling. Will definitely be making again on a cold winter day.
Great soup! I added a can of diced tomatoes and a can of cannoli beans.
Okay so this was amazing! We ate everything up and it was just me and my husband eating lol. Now I did a few different things. I didn’t add water I just added more broth. I also used regular broth and just added a pinch of regular salt. Also I used Jimmy Dean Italian sausage and an extra carrot and celery because we love veggies. Now outside of that I followed the recipe. Typing all that made me realize I changed a little more than I thought. All that aside the base of this recipe is the same lol. Was amazing!!!! Thank you!
P.S. I have never left a recipe comment before. Hopefully I did alright. I tried leaving a picture in this comment box but I couldn’t figure it out 😂
This soup is absolutely fantastic! The only change I made was to add some diced portobello mushrooms and a can of diced Italian style tomatoes but otherwise I made it exactly as written. It’s so filling! Thank you so much for posting this!
I tried this recipe because it was high protein and within my carb allowance for my meals. I couldn’t find turkey or chicken Italian sausage at the grocery store, so I used bulk pork Italian sausage and just used a paper towel to pick up some of the grease. I did not use bouillon and instead added some garlic salt at the end. I doubled the spinach and gave it a rough chop. The serving size is generous and this will make for easy lunches at school this week.
Fantastic taste. I used mild and hot Italian chicken sausage links cooked separately and sliced, along with dried Rancho Gordo beans which I had cooked separately. My guest gave it great reviews.
Easy to make and my family LOVED it! It’s a keeper.
This was delicious. I bought Trader Joe’s Mirepoix so I didn’t need to chop anything and I used Whole Foods fully cooked Italian chicken sausages and took the casing off and sliced to make it even quicker. I followed the rest of the recipe exactly. Next time I’ll ass even more spinach.
Delicious! I’ve never been disappointed by any of your dishes, Gina! Hubby loves tortellini and any time I can use it other than with tomato sauce, I’ll jump on it. I doubled it to make extra! Only personal thing I added was Montreal Chicken to give it a little more flavor for us. Thank you!
Made this tonight for the first time and it’s my new favorite soup! I doubled the recipe so I could freeze portions for later. I used kale and oh my gosh it’s soooo good. I might add white beans next time but honestly I’m so full from this as is. Thanks for this recipe!
Amazing. New favorite staple for my house for sure!
Both my husband & I loved this soup. I doubled the veggies but didn’t change anything else! This will definitely be made again ! Thank you!
Very good but bullion is necessary.
I will add chick peas the next time.
I make this soup quite often. So delicious and easy. I really love one-pot meals. I used GF spinach tortellini.
Made this tonight and it was excellent! I also added a can white beans to make it a little more hearty, and it was delicious. This will be on repeat this winter!
Can regular chicken broth be used instead of chicken bone broth?
Yes
This was delicious! My family loved it! I wanted to sneak in veggies, so I doubled them and used the suggestion and added beans. Yum!
I have not yet made this soup, but plan to soon. My husband has a blood disorder which excludes beef and dark greens from his diet. I have seen that many of the ST recipes include spinach . This is an ingredient he cannot eat. What ingredient would you suggest as an alternative to spinach. I love the Gina does suggest alternatives in her recipe suggestions, but would love to hear what others have substituted. Thx!
Will the tortellini’s last in the soup if added when suggested, or should I add them upon serving?
If serving later, add just before serving.
Sweet mercy this tasty as hell! I’m usually pretty skeptical of soup recipes but it was flavorful and hearty. Absolutely will be making this again
This soup is delicious! It’s hearty and filling and freezes great! I also use kale if I don’t have spinach. Thanks so much Gina!
Perfect