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Chicken Noodle Soup with Tortellini

My family loves this soup and I make it often in the fall and winter months. If you have stock already made in your freezer, this can be made even on a weeknight. You can also use pre-made stock to help with the quickness if you do not want to make our own stock. I love this soup with crusty bread or crackers.
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Ingredients
  

  • Ingredients
  • 1 Tbsp olive oil ;1 cup chopped carrots from about 3 medium
  • 1/2 cup chopped celery from about 2 stalks
  • 1 cup chopped yellow onion 1 small
  • 2 cloves garlic minced ;32oz homemade chicken stock or 2-14.5oz boxes Emerils chicken stock
  • Kosher salt to taste
  • Freshly cracked black pepper to taste
  • 12 oz refrigerated three cheese tortellini or chicken tortellini
  • 1/4 cup packed parsley stems and all, plus more for serving
  • 2 1/2 - 3 cups cooked diced chicken

Instructions
 

  • Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium heat, add carrots, celery and onion and saute 3 - 4 minutes. Add garlic and saute 30 seconds longer. Season with Kosher salt and pepper.
  • Stir in chicken stock and check seasoning. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat then cover and boil 5 minutes. Add in the cooked, diced chicken and heat until cooked through.
  • At this point you can do one of two things. You can add in your tortellini and boil one minute less than the package instructions. Or you can boil in a separate pot of water to the package instructions and then drain and serve with the soup. I do them that way for a few reasons. Mainly if there is extra soup the tortellini are not remaining in the soup to swell up and absorb all the broth. Also, we like two different types of tortellini in our house, so I make them separate and serve each person what they like.
  • If you are cooking the tortellini in the soup, you will add tortellini in now with the parsley and, cover and boil 6 - 8 minutes longer (or one minute less than time listed on package). Otherwise, just add in the parsley, whole and stir it around to cook in the soup while your pasta cooks separately. Remove the parsley and serve the soup with the tortellini or over the tortellini that you cooked separately.
  • I garnish this soup with some more chopped parsley and some crusty bread.ENJOY!

Notes

**Leftover or rotisserie chicken works great in this recipe