Chicken Tortellini Soup

To all my Atlanta followers: I am officially inviting you to join me in pretending that it's winter while sweating over steaming hot bowls of soup.  

I collected a bunch of new soup recipes that I wanted to try out this winter and since we didn't exactly have much "soup" weather this winter, I still have all of these unused soup recipes sitting on my kitchen counter.  Now that it's March, I feel like I better get a couple of these soups made - before the temperatures get even warmer.  

This Chicken Tortellini soup really was delicious.  And even though I prefer to eat my hot soup while sitting in front of a roaring fire, I liked this soup a lot.  The tricolored pasta and yellow bell peppers really make this soup look more like a "Spring" soup anyway.  

Chicken Tortellini Soup
1 tablespoon Olive Oil
1 large sweet onion, peeled and chopped
1 bell pepper, seeded and chopped
2 cups sliced carrots
3 garlic cloves, minced
1 1/4 pounds boneless skinless chicken breast (2 large breasts)
8 cups chicken broth
8.8 ounce package Cheese Tortellini
1/4 cup heavy cream
2 tablespoons fresh chopped parsley
1 tablespoon fresh thyme leaves
1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper
Salt and pepper

Saute onions in oil in saucepan for 3 minutes.
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Add bell pepper, carrots and garlic and cook 3 more minutes. 

Add chicken, broth, thyme, red pepper and salt.  Simmer until chicken is warmed through.

Stir tortellini into simmering soup.   Cook 10 minutes. 

Stir in cream and parsley.  Season as necessary.

Maybe it's a good thing that I didn't get this soup made this winter because it is the perfect way to welcome in an early Spring.  I loved this yummy, hearty meal.  

I stored the leftover soup in the refrigerator for a couple of days and I was afraid that the tortellini would get too swollen and soggy but happily - I was wrong.  We enjoyed this soup for several meals and eat time I warmed it - it seemed to get even better.  

This was a super easy soup to put together and everyone in my family liked it.  I think you will too.

Ciao!

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