Slow Cooker Italian Wedding Soup

• Tracy Keleher | December 19, 2008 at 4:51 pm - §

  This soup is commonly made with any small round shaped pasta but I have made it with bow-tie pasta and broken up spagetti - whatever I have on hand. Store bought chicken broth works well, but making your own from scratch is best, just don't forget to add extra salt.

• Sandy | February 9, 2009 at 1:55 pm - §

  Can't wait to try this. It sounds good, but just one question: how much spinach is one package of spinach? Would three cups of fresh spinach be too much? I've heard of people putting in too much spinach causing the spinach to overpower the soup...not a good idea with my kids...

• Sarah | February 10, 2009 at 2:14 pm - §

  I used Pastene Italian breadcrumbs in the meatballs. Making the soup on Thursday. I can't wait.

• Krista | February 19, 2009 at 5:40 pm - §

  This should be called "100 tiny meatballs soup"! I'm making it for dinner tonight, I decided to put it on at naptime... I didn't realize it would take 45 minutes to roll the little meatballs! There should be a disclaimer or something... LOL. It better be a hit with everyone or I won't be doing that again!

• Rachel | March 25, 2009 at 5:32 pm - §

  I was very disappointed in this soup. I made it just like the recipe above and the orzo pasta turned to mush! It would have probably been ok if I would have put it in during the last half hour of cooking but does NOT work well when you put it in for teh whole last half of cooking. SO sad as it was time consuming to roll the meat balls.

• michelle gunn | May 19, 2009 at 3:29 pm - §

  I tried to open the curry chicken recipe and the Italian wedding soup came up instead. thought you would like to know. Anxious to see the recipe.

• Pam Turner-Langley | September 5, 2009 at 3:07 pm - §

  As with Michelle...this is where I was directed when trying to open the curried chicken recipe...is there another link to try?

• Jen | December 4, 2009 at 2:56 pm - §

  Krista, I got this tip from Rachael Ray in making quick meatballs.... After you have mixed all the ingredients, put the meat mixture into a clear plastic bag, cut off the corner and pipe the meat through directly into the soup, cutting it every 1/2 and inch to and inch. Works perfectly and it's easy peasy!

• Susan | February 6, 2010 at 1:50 pm - §

  I also couldn't open up Curried Chicken. Got directed to meatballs and Italian wedding soup. Really would like the recipe for the Chicken

• Annette | February 24, 2010 at 7:38 pm - §

  I too was disappointed in this soup, right away the orzo turned to mush. Not a good slow cooker recipe - darn. And we like to leave our food in the pot as we are all coming and going at different times.

• Cathy | March 28, 2010 at 11:01 am - §

  Hi, I make a similar soup recipe, but I use store-bought frozen meatballs that I cut into fourths with scissors. I add the pasta the last half hour or so, the smaller the better when it comes to this pasta. I cook it on low for 4-5 hours, put it on at noon for supper. Newer crockpots cook so quickly, I find most recipes at low are done in 5-6 hours instead of 8-9. Hope this helps!

• Susan Gaston | April 10, 2010 at 8:20 am - §

  I clicked on the picture instead of the caption and it popped right up.

• Patricia | April 24, 2010 at 10:37 am - §

  I love Italian wedding soup but hate making meat balls.... so I just fry the meat and toss it in {I often use ground beef, I have also used pork} Season the meat and add some parmesan... No egg Bread cumbs optional just use less

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