Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, creamy tortellini soup with kale. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Creamy Tortellini Soup with Kale is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Creamy Tortellini Soup with Kale is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook creamy tortellini soup with kale using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Creamy Tortellini Soup with Kale:
- Make ready 1 lb Italian sausage removed from the casing
- Take 2 onions, diced
- Take 4 carrots, diced
- Make ready 4 stalks celery, diced
- Make ready 4 cloves garlic, minced
- Prepare 4 cups water
- Take 2 Bou vegetable bouillon cubes
- Prepare 1 Bou beef bouillon cube
- Make ready 1 Tbsp Italian seasoning
- Make ready 3 (12 oz) cans evaporated milk
- Prepare 1/4 cup corn starch
- Make ready 1/4 cup water
- Prepare 1 lb frozen tortellini
- Prepare 6 cup kale, destemmed and torn
Steps to make Creamy Tortellini Soup with Kale:
- Turn your slow cooker to high and add 4 cups water and the bouillon cubes. I use Bou brand.
- In a skillet, brown the sausage breaking up the large pieces.
- Add the sausage to the slow cooker.
- Saute the onion, carrot, celery, and garlic until softened.
- Add the vegetables, and the Italian seasoning to the slow cooker. Cook on high for 4 hours, or low for 7 hours.
- Turn the cooker to high if not already and add the evorated milk. Allow to come to a simmer (~30 min)
- Stir the corn starch and 1/4 cup water in a small bowl. All the starch slurry and frozen tortellini to the soup and cook until the pasta is soft (~30 min).
- Add the kale, submerging with a spoon, and cook until the kale wilts and is tender (~10 min).
- Adjust the consistency of the soup with water or milk. I used about a cup. Season with salt and pepper to taste and plate in bowls with crusty bread.
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