Description
Slow Cooker Tomato Basil Parmesan Tortellini Soup is a creamy tomato basil soup with cheese tortellini that is simmered in your crockpot.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 yellow onion, diced
- 1 cup diced celery (3 ribs)
- 1 cup diced carrots (1 large carrot)
- 4 cups chicken broth or vegetable broth (or 4 cups water + 4 tsp better than bouillon chicken base*)
- 1 (28 ounce) can crushed tomatoes
- 1 Tbsp dried basil
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp pepper
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 (19 oz) bag frozen cheese tortellini
- 2 cups half and half (or heavy cream or evaporated milk)
- 1 cup grated or shredded parmesan cheese
Instructions
- Add onion, celery, carrots, chicken broth, tomatoes, basil, oregano, bay leaf, salt, pepper and garlic powder to the slow cooker.
- Cover and cook on low for 6 hours.
- Remove the lid and stir in the tortellini. Cover and cook on HIGH for 30 minutes.
- Warm up the dairy in the microwave for about 90 seconds. Then stir a ladleful of soup into the dairy. This will prevent curdling. Then stir the dairy/soup mixture into the slow cooker. Stir until it is incorporated. Then sprinkle in the parmesan cheese and stir.
- Ladle soup into bowls and serve.
Notes
Half and half is half cream and half whole milk. You can find it next to the heavy cream at your grocery store.
I used my 6 quart oval Kitchenaid slow cooker.*
- Category: Soup
- Method: Slow Cooker
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cup of soup
- Calories: 251
- Sugar: 1 g
- Sodium: 656 mg
- Fat: 34 g
- Carbohydrates: 23 g
- Protein: 7 g