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Italian wedding soup with turkey meatballs

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Points® value
Total Time
50 min
Prep
20 min
Cook
30 min
Serves
4
Difficulty
Easy
This Italian meatball-filled soup is warming and filling, developing rich flavor as it simmers on the stovetop. Like many Italian dishes, this soup was a meal for peasants, who used whatever bits of meat they had leftover and lots of local greens. Here we’ve included escarole, a leafy green with darker, more bitter outer leaves and tender, milder inner leaves. The meatballs are mixed with breadcrumbs for moisture while the egg whites helps bind them. It’s important to shape the meat mixture into meatballs that are on the smaller side—3/4 inch—so that they cook thoroughly as they simmer in the brothy soup mixture.

Ingredients

Uncooked extra lean ground turkey breast

8 oz

Egg whites

1 large, lightly beaten

Dried plain breadcrumbs

2 Tbsp

Grated Parmesan cheese

1½ Tbsp

Dried oregano

1½ tsp

Garlic powder

½ tsp

Canned low-sodium chicken broth

8 cup(s)

Escarole

2 cup(s), thinly sliced

Onion

½ cup(s), chopped, sweet-variety, thinly sliced

Shredded carrots

cup(s)

Instructions

  1. Combine turkey, egg white, bread crumbs, Parmesan, oregano, and garlic powder in medium bowl and mix gently. Shape into balls about ¾ inch in diameter.
  2. Bring broth to boil in large saucepan. Stir in escarole, onion, carrot, and meatballs. Return soup to boil, then adjust heat so soup just simmers. Cook, uncovered, until meatballs are cooked through and float and escarole is tender, about 15 minutes.
  3. Serving size: about 2¼ cups soup and about 8 meatballs