Creamy Chicken Tortellini Soup
Tuscan-style Creamy Chicken Tortellini Soup is one of the easiest and most flavorful soups you’ll ever make. Packed with roasted chicken, fire-roasted tomatoes, garlic, kale and cheese tortellini…..this velvety soup recipe will be on repeat all year long.
Chicken Tortellini Soup
Soup season can be celebrated a number of ways. With a bowl full of chicken soup that’s brothy and light, or a cup of creamy broccoli soup. But this easy Chicken Tortellini Soup is one for the record books.
And a creamy chicken soup can seem like a gut buster but this one has so many healthy ingredients it kind of balances it all out. I like to add kale to the mix and garlic because everything that has tomatoes in it should also have garlic.
To keep it creamy but a little lighter, I used half and half instead of heavy cream with excellent results. And I am happy to say that this is one of the BEST recipes I have made in a VERY long time. It’s made me so excited and proud and almost giddy to share it with you.
It’s like a creamy tomato bisque and chicken soup had a baby…..and that baby was cheese tortellini soup with chicken and kale and epic flavor.
What is Tortellini Soup?
This Creamy Chicken Tortellini Soup recipe couldn’t be easier…..or FASTER to make! I had the whole shebang finished and on the table in about 40 minutes, that included cooking the chicken!
If you want to make this glorious soup recipe even faster you can totally use your leftover chicken from your Sunday dinner or just grab a rotisserie chicken up at the grocery store on the way home from work.
This Tortellini Soup is made with tomatoes and kale but you can switch out the kale for spinach if that’s more your speed. And if you don’t like chunks of tomatoes swimming around in your soup you can totally use a can of tomato sauce in it’s place for a smooth and even creamier version of tortellini soup recipe.
Ingredients You will Need
Creamy Tortellini Soup is made with super easy to find ingredients you probably already have in your house. My recipe calls for wine but you can totally skip it if you’re adverse to alcohol.
- Olive Oil –
- Onion
- Garlic
- Italian Seasoning
- Tomato Paste
- White Wine (optional)
- Canned Diced Tomatoes
- Chicken Stock
- Cooked Chicken Breast
- Refrigerated Cheese Tortellini
- Half and Half
- Parmesan Cheese
- Kale
More Easy Soup Recipes
This Creamy Tuscan Chicken Tortellini Soup recipe is just as easy and flavorful last this Italian Sausage Soup that I’ve been making for years and everyone always asks for the recipe. It’s a close tie for first place with this Creamy Chicken Soup with Artichokes and Mushrooms……and this Creamy Chicken and Wild Rice Soup recipe. You might as well add all of them to your weekly rotation for one epic soup week.
Want something for the Crock Pot? Try this easy Chicken Pot Pie Soup!
This Creamy Chicken Gnocchi Soup is one for the record books, as is, this Sausage Tortellini Soup!
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Get the Recipe: Creamy Chicken Tortellini Soup Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 cup diced onion
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 tablespoon Italian Seasoning
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 1 cup dry white wine
- 1 14.5 ounce cans diced Fire Roasted Tomatoes
- 4 cups low sodium chicken stock
- 1 1/2 cups chopped cooked chicken breast
- 9 ounces refrigerated cheese tortellini
- 1 cup half and half
- 1 cup grated parmesan cheese
- 1 1/2 cups chopped kale
- salt and pepper, to taste
Equipment
- 1 stockpot
Instructions
- Heat the olive oil in a large dutch oven or stock pot over medium/high heat.
- Add the onion to the pot and cook until softened, approximately 3-4 minutes.
- Stir in the garlic and cook for 1 minute. Add the Italian seasoning and tomato paste, stirring to combine. Continue cooking for 2-3 minutes longer or until the tomato paste begins to turn a deep burgundy color.
- Add the wine to the pot and using a wooden spoon, scrape up the brown bits on the bottom of the pot. Bring to a boil and cook until reduced by half.
- Add the tomatoes, chicken stock and chicken to the pot stirring to combine. Bring the soup to a boil, then reduce the heat to low.
- Stir in the tortellini and cook for 7 minutes.
- Slowly stir in the half and half and cheese, then add the kale. Simmer for an additional 1-2 minutes then season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Serve immediately with extra parmesan cheese, if desired.
14 Comments on “Creamy Chicken Tortellini Soup”
I’ve made this twice, and both times there was a bitterness to it. I’m not sure if it’s because of the large amount of parmesan cheese it calls for or the wine. I’d have to modify the recipe to try it again.
I’m not even sure what would cause it to be bitter, the cheese would not…it would make it saltier than anything else. The wine would only make it bitter if it had gone bad.
Can this be made in a crockpot?
I haven’t tested it in a crockpot, however, you could cook it all day with the exception of the cream. Just stir that in right before your ready to serve it and let it cook for an additional 10-15 minutes.
Just finished a bowl! Used baby spinach instead of kale. Pure deliciousness! Thank you
Yum! Thank you for your comment!
This soup is delicious! I added a zucchini instead of the kale and it worked well. Even with the low sodium chicken broth, no salt was needed at the end. Husband said, “Be sure to hang on to this recipe!” I definitely will!
I’m so happy you loved it!
So good!
Thank you so much!
LOVED IT — so glad I stumbled upon this — so easy and delicious. I am sure I’ll be making this again all winter long.
Yay! I’m so glad you enjoyed it!
This soup is AMAZING. I didn’t have wine on hand so I added a bit of lemon juice to mimic the acid, used spinach instead of kale cause it needed used up, and subbed heavy cream cause it’s what I had. Other than that I followed the recipe and figured, like most soup recipes I come across, that I would have to adjust it at the end. I’m a professional cook and it’s rare I don’t change a recipe. But it didn’t need anything. It was perfect. And sooo yummy. You should be proud. Thanks for this.
Great additions! We use kale on occasion, too! So glad you loved it!