Italian Wedding Soup

Overall, this was a good soup; however, I felt it needed "something". Next time I will try using a combination of Italian sausage and ground beef. I will also brown them before adding to the soup.

Baked the meatballs to brown them instead of boiling them in the soup. Used ground turkey instead of ground beef. To begin, I sauteed the carrots and some finely chopped onion in some evoo. After about 5 minutes, I then added the broth and escarole. Cooked this down for about 20. At this point, the meatballs were done baking and I added them to the soup. Added pastina during the last 10 mins. WONDERFUL recipe. Thanks a mill!!!

Excellent recipe! Wonderful. We're going to have it again soon. I substituted a sliced Italian sausage for the meatballs. For awhile when it was first simmering, it looked of rather dubious quality. But the finished product was simply amazing. Definitely five stars. Updated: made with meatballs. Nice. It turned out too salty for my taste, so I might cut the amount of chicken broth with a cup of water.

I've never had Italian Wedding soup before. This was delicious and easy! Even my 8 year old daughter loved it. She now requests it for dinner. Great recipe, thanks!!!!

Love this recipe. I add celery and onion to the broth as well to give it some more vegetables. It is delicious.

I made this last week and decided to freeze some for later..I had to take it out of the freezer the next day because it was so fantastic and had to have more. I used about and extra pound of ground beef, Italian panko bread crumbs but still only one egg. I also upped the orzo to 1 cup, and used way more spinach than called for. I also browned the meatballs. If I could give this recipe 10 stars I would!

I don't like soup. My family does, so I'm trying to learn how to make these. I had to make a few alterations, but this was a great dish - even I enjoyed it! I doubled the recipe, and used turkey instead of beef. Added almost all of the egg(s), but the "dough" was too sticky. Would have added crumbs but was too lazy. Next time will not double the egg. Also added a t of salt instead of parm because of Kashrut restrictions - a bit too much - and used about 4 cups of veg stock since I didn't have enough chicken stock on hand. Quick and delicious. Next time might add a little of another veg just to pump up the nutritional value, and make the meatballs TINY for my little girl and my own taste.

What an easy delicious soup! I added some garlic salt and onion powder. I also prefer pastina to the orzo shape. It was a HUGE hit and I loved that it was so simple to make!

What a wonderful recipe!THANK YOU! I also made my broth simmering with carrots, celery as other review suggested. Tasty meatballs as well! THANKS!

Great recipe, great taste, the kids loved it! Almost didn't have any to freeze. will definitely make again!

Very good. My family ate this up fast. Great was to get my kids to eat spinach. Thanks for the recipe.

I was lazy and didn't bother making meatballs. I browned store-bought frozen meatballs before adding to 6 boullion cubes and 6 cups of water. Otherwise, followed the recipe exactly. Yummy and easy, but certainly not low sodium!

Thank you so much this turned out fabulous. I doubled the recipe and made my meatballs with ground chicken. The meatballs did get a bit bigger than I expected so next time I'll make them even smaller. Otherwise this is great.

tastes great, very easy to make. Serve with some italian bread toasted and raw garlic rubbed in.

Amazing flavor, super easy to make. We will never eat any other type of Italian Wedding Soup again!

Flavorful, wonderful soup!! Very easy to make, you don't even have to chop onions!! Served with a little sangria and it was a hit!! Thanks for the recipe!!

This was great!! I loved this! I did have to laugh that I made soup for dinner when it was 95 degrees outside! ha ha I did make a couple changes in the meatball seasonings. I used fresh basil, pepper, onion & garlic powder, and I browned the meatballs in a skillet before adding to the soup. I also used frozen spinach, and ~ 8 oz. broken spaghetti noodles as I was out of orzo. I do think that next time I will increase the amount of broth to stretch this even further since it was pretty "meaty" with ~ 6 c. broth. This will be in our regular rotation.

Excellent recipe. I've made this several times and just now getting around to rating it. My whole family ( including kids ) loved it.