Crock Pot Juicy Italian Wedding Meatballs

"This is a great soup for crisp fall evenings. I used thighs or breasts for the cooked chicken and this would be great for leftover chicken."
 
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Ready In:
8hrs 10mins
Ingredients:
10
Serves:
8
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ingredients

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directions

  • Pop the meatballs in the microwave for 1 minute on defrost so you can quarter them.
  • Combine rest of ingredients except pasta in crock pot and cook all day on low.
  • Add the pasta during the last hour of cooking.
  • Freezes well.

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  1. This was one of the most delicious, and definitely the easiest, version of Italian Wedding Soup, which happens to be my favourite! I have never had chicken in it before and it was a nice addition. I made the recipe as listed except for doubling the amount of pasta and grating some fresh parmesan on top. Terrific! Made for my teammate for ZWT7, Thanks Mary! :)
     
  2. I made my own meatballs from recipe #69173 on this site & dropped them directly into the crock pot (uncooked) with 1 small uncooked chicken breast. I follwed the remainder of the recipe as instructed, let it cook all day & had a beautiful Italian Wedding soup for dinner. This is a favorite, one pot, healthy & delicious meal. Thanks for sharing!
     
  3. This was a great and filling soup. I wouldn't change a thing! Made for ZWT 7.
     
  4. This soup was amazing. I just made it and had it on all day. My hubby even said it was better than the canned soup. Will make this again and again. Thanks again for the fab recipe.
     
  5. This is DELICIOUS!!! Easy too! I followed the recipe closely but used a whole rotisserie chicken for the cooked chicken. I used store bought meatballs (WHICH I WILL NOT DO AGAIN - WILL MAKE MY OWN!) and the meatballs almost ruined the soup for me but the soup is just amazing and will be even better with my own homemade meatballs. I used chicken stock and upped the carrots and celery and added 6 cloves minced garlic. I cooked elbow macaroni on the side (my kids fav!) and we add this to our bowls and this was WONDERFUL! This makes quite a bit and so I've frozen it into several small sized meal portions. I thawed it yesterday and my kids liked it so much they asked me to thaw another one for lunch today. Will definitely make this one again and again. YUMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!
     
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  1. I let the chicken cook with soup did not pre cook chicken. The soup turned put great.. Good for weight loss as well
     
  2. Not quite sure if I should rate this or not since I changed it so much but I used the base of it and it was delicious. I think I should rename this "Clean Out The Freezer" Soup. I used everything in my freezer I could clean out to start over again when the garden produce comes on. I used frozen chicken broth, left over Thanksgiving turkey broth, sugar snap peas, okra, sun-dried tomatoes, homemade frozen spaghetti noodles in place of the pasta. Frozen fresh spinach I coarsely chopped and threw in. I had 4 bite-size carrots I found in the frige and chopped up.....(lol). Made up a parmesan type meatball and rolled small and added after I had simmered the soup on the stove awhile. I doubled the batch and had TONS of soup!! Thanks for sharing..will make this again next spring! ;-)
     
  3. I made this for a New Year's Eve party and it was so easy to make and tasted delicious! I used Parmesan cheese instead of Romano cheese and it tasted just fine, they are both strong flavors and it just went well with the soup! mmmm--I will be making this again! Thanks
     

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