30 Minute Kielbasa Tortellini Soup

We’re cooking up quick comfort food today: 30 Minute Kielbasa Tortellini Soup is the perfect weeknight dinner idea for any busy (or stressful) evening! This easy soup recipe is not only packed with flavor, it packs in some veggies among the meaty, cheesy goodness of kielbasa + tortellini.

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This year’s U.S. Election Day definitely requires some easy comfort food, so this 30 Minute Kielbasa Tortellini Soup is chock full of comforting tortellini, mushrooms, spinach, and tomato-y goodness. Quick tortellini soup is just so, so simple to throw together on any busy (or stressful) weeknight, and using refrigerated tortellini both speeds up the process and pumps up the flavor.

Today’s tortellini soup takes just 30 minutes to throw together, yet tastes like it’s been simmering away on your stove for hours. The trick? Flavorful Polska kielbasa, easy cheesy tortellini, and umami, meaty sauteed mushrooms. Boom.

I recommend topping this hearty soup with shredded Parmesan to kick the flavor up a notch, but that’s totally optional.

30 Minute Kielbasa Tortellini Soup

Ingredients

1/2 Tbsp olive oil
14 oz Polska kielbasa or smoked sausage, sliced into half moons
8 oz white or baby bella mushrooms, sliced
2 Tbsp diced onion
1.5 tsp minced garlic (about 3 cloves)
32 oz chicken broth
2 cups water
14.5 oz can diced tomatoes
1 tsp oregano
1/2 tsp basil
1/4 tsp crushed red pepper
Sea salt, to taste
Black pepper, to taste
9 oz refrigerated 3 cheese tortellini
8 oz fresh spinach, roughly chopped
Shredded Parmesan to top (optional)

Directions

Cut up the kielbasa, mushrooms, & onions.

Heat olive oil in a soup pot or Dutch oven over medium heat until shimmering. Add the sausage, mushrooms, and onions, then continue to saute over medium heat for 8-9 minutes, stirring occasionally.

While the sausage and mushrooms are sauteing, chop the spinach & garlic (if not using pre-minced).

After the mushrooms have browned and softened, stir in the garlic and saute briefly. Stir in the broth, water, tomatoes, and seasoning, then bring the soup to a boil.

Reduce heat slightly, add the tortellini, and continue to cook for 2-3 minutes at a gentle boil or until tortellini float to the top and are cooked through. Stir in the spinach until just wilted.

Serve your tortellini kielbasa soup topped with shredded Parmesan to kick everything up a notch, if desired. (I do recommend it!)

Note: If you use turkey kielbasa rather than pork, you may wish to increase the olive oil to 1 Tbsp.

30 minute comfort food? Yes, please

Soup is always good food, but it’s sometimes hard to find the time or energy to simmer a big pot of soup all afternoon. A 30 minute shortcut soup recipe can be a lifesaver on busy weeknights, and this kielbasa tortellini soup packs in the flavor you want, even with its abbreviated cooking time.

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We’re cooking up quick comfort food today: 30 Minute Kielbasa Tortellini Soup is the perfect weeknight dinner idea for any busy (or stressful) evening! This easy soup recipe is not only packed with flavor, it packs in some veggies among the meaty, cheesy goodness of kielbasa + tortellini.

Course dinner

Cuisine soup

Keyword 30 minute meals, comfort food, mushrooms, polska kielbasa, soup, tortellini, tortellini soup, weeknight dinner

Total Time 30 minutes minutes

Servings 6

Author Rachel Singer

Equipment

dutch oven

wooden utensils

Ingredients

• 1/2 Tbsp olive oil
• 14 oz Polska kielbasa or smoked sausage sliced into half moons
• 8 oz white or baby bella mushrooms sliced
• 2 Tbsp diced onion
• 1.5 tsp minced garlic about 3 cloves
• 32 oz chicken broth
• 2 cups water
• 14.5 oz can diced tomatoes
• 1 tsp oregano
• 1/2 tsp basil
• 1/4 tsp crushed red pepper
• Sea salt to taste
• Black pepper to taste
• 9 oz refrigerated 3 cheese tortellini
• 8 oz fresh spinach roughly chopped
• Shredded Parmesan to top optional

Instructions

• Cut up the kielbasa, mushrooms, & onions.
• Heat olive oil in a soup pot or Dutch oven over medium heat until shimmering. Add the sausage, mushrooms, and onions, then continue to saute over medium heat for 8-9 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• While the sausage and mushrooms are sauteing, chop the spinach & garlic (if not using pre-minced).
• After the mushrooms have browned and softened, stir in the garlic and saute briefly. Stir in the broth, water, tomatoes, and seasoning, then bring the soup to a boil.
• Reduce heat slightly, add the tortellini, and continue to cook for 2-3 minutes at a gentle boil or until tortellini float to the top and are cooked through. Stir in the spinach until just wilted.
• Serve your tortellini kielbasa soup topped with shredded Parmesan to kick everything up a notch, if desired. (I do recommend it!)

Notes

If you use turkey kielbasa rather than pork, you may wish to increase the olive oil to 1 Tbsp.

More Kielbasa soup recipes?

But wait, there’s more: In looking back at some older recipes, apparently I do love throwing kielbasa or smoked sausage into soup! There are so many ways to take this… like:

• Comforting kielbasa potato soup
• Slow cooker lentil & smoked sausage soup
• Instant Pot kale sausage soup
• Broccoli cheddar soup with sausage
• Easy smoked sausage & spinach soup
• Creamy smoked sausage & white bean chili

Polska kielbasa is such an easy and flavorful protein, that can serve as the base of many different soup recipes. I use it interchangeably with smoked sausage, so pick up whatever you can find at your own local store.

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