Italian Sausage Soup with Ravioli
A hearty and delicious recipe for Italian Sausage Soup made with Italian sausage, fresh ravioli pasta, vegetables, and seasonings. I always have requests for this recipe when I serve it!
I love this hearty and flavorful Italian soup during the cold winter months. It’s the perfect bowl of comfort food. Nothing is better than a hot pot of soup and warm crusty bread on a cold winter day.
I originally got this amazing recipe from my mother-in-law, but it was prepared with tortellini pasta instead of ravioli. I have made a few changes from the original recipe to make it my own. Feel free to make substitutions to suit your taste buds. Using ravioli with a variety of complimentary fillings is a fun way to switch it up. Either way, it’s incredibly delicious!!
Ingredients You’ll Need
- Sweet Italian sausage
- Extra virgin olive oil
- Onion
- Garlic cloves, minced
- Beef broth
- Red wine-I don’t recommend that you cook with a wine that you wouldn’t drink
- Diced tomatoes- canned (do not drain)
- Tomato sauce
- Sugar
- Carrots-shredded
- Zucchini-cut into small chunks
- Bell pepper, diced
- Fresh spinach leaves- stems removed
- Basil- fresh is best, but dried works here too
- Oregano
- Seasonings- salt and freshly ground pepper
- Fresh four-cheese ravioli- regular or whole wheat (in the refrigerated section)
- Parmesan cheese- freshly grated, for topping
How To Make Italian Sausage Soup with Pasta
Step 1. Brown sausage in a large pot ( I love my enameled cast iron dutch oven for this-it is great for soups and braising foods.) Remove sausage from pot and set aside.
Step 2. Add olive oil to the pan and sauté onion and garlic until tender but not browned.
Step 3. Add beef broth, wine, sugar, tomatoes, carrots, basil, oregano, salt, pepper, tomato sauce, zucchini, bell pepper, and sausage. Boil then reduce to simmer (low heat) for 40 minutes.
Step 4. Stir in ravioli and simmer for another 10-15 minutes. Stir in spinach and cook until just wilted. Turn off the heat and ladle into bowls. Top with freshly grated Parmesan cheese.
Serve with crusty garlic bread for dipping.
A few more favorite soups to try are chicken tortellini soup, lightened-up slow cooker potato soup, Southern ham vegetable soup, and Cajun fish soup.
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Italian Sausage and Ravioli soup
Ingredients
- 3 links of sweet Italian sausage casings removed (you'll need 1 lb of ground Italian sausage if not using links)
- 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1 cup of chopped onion
- 2-3 garlic cloves minced
- 64 oz beef broth ( 2 cartons)
- 1 cup red wine never use a wine in your cooking that you wouldn’t drink-make it a good one
- 14.5 oz can diced tomatoes do not drain
- 8 oz can tomato sauce
- 3 shredded carrots
- 2 zucchini cut into small chunks
- 1 bell pepper diced
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1 tsp dried basil or 4 large basil leaves finely chopped
- 1/2 tsp dried oregano
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp fresh ground pepper
- 9 oz container of Buitoni four-cheese ravioli in the refrigerator pasta section of your grocery store
- 1 cup fresh spinach leaves stems removed
- fresh grated Parmesan cheese for topping
Instructions
- Brown sausage in a large pot ( I love my enameled cast iron dutch oven for this-it is great for soups and braising foods.)
- Remove sausage from pot and set aside.
- Add olive oil to pan and saute onion and garlic until tender but not browned.
- Add beef broth, wine, tomatoes, tomato sauce, carrots, zucchini, bell pepper, sugar, basil, oregano, salt, pepper, and cooked sausage.
- Boil then reduce to simmer (low heat) for 40 minutes.
- Stir in ravioli and simmer for another 10-15 minutes.
- Stir in spinach and cook until just wilted.
- Turn off heat and ladle into bowls.
- Top with freshly grated Parmesan cheese.
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Amee, this looks AMAZING! I can’t wait to try it. 🙂
Thanks, Beth! I hope you enjoy it!
This looks similar to my cheese tortellini soup. I didn’t know Buitoni made whole wheat pasta. I make mine with turkey sausage and it tastes great. This is intriguing because of the spinach and some other different ingredients. I will have to try
Mouth watering !! Gotta try this delicious recipe soon 🙂
Ameeeeee! I love the flavors and the fact that you intensified them w/the wine! Yep, this is a gloomy day picker upper!! xoxo Ally
Love this soup , I love the mix of Italian sausage, basil and wine! I made this with gluten free ravioli.
Thanks Tara! Love that you used the GF ravioli!
How would this do freezing half of it and then reheating?
Thanks!
Hi Debra! If you wanted to freeze it, then leave out the pasta and add that in when you thaw and reheat it. Soups containing cooked pasta don’t freeze well. The texture of the pasta when reheated isn’t great.
My husband and I love this recipe. Easy, fast and perfect for a cold, winter day!
I’m so glad that you enjoyed it, Debbie! You are reminding me that I need to make this again soon! 🙂
I don’t have any wine can substitute it or leave out. Sounds so delicious we having tonight. Thanks for sharing
You could leave it out, but the wine does add great flavor.
Thank you for a great recipe. I just made this and it is amazingly delicious. Thank you so much for sharing.
Thank you Marina! I’m so glad that you enjoyed it!!
I’m wanting to make this however I was wondering if you could make it in the crock pot?
Hi Patti! Yes, it should work just fine. Follow the first two steps then add everything to the crockpot, except the spinach and pasta. Wait until about 30 minutes before it’s done and add those in so they don’t overcook. You could do 4-5 hours on high or 7-8 hours on low. If you try it, let me know how it turns out!
Was delicious
I’m so glad that you enjoyed it, Stan!
This is delicious
Thank you for the review, Joan! It’s one of my favorites!
Hi Amee: could you use egg noodles instead of ravioli? One of us doesn’t like ravioli!
Sure! Just make sure to adjust the noodle cook time accordingly. They won’t take long, especially if they are fresh egg noodles. Enjoy!
I just made soup I’m going to serve it tomorrow is it ok to add ravioli today
Hi Chris! I would wait to add the pasta until you’re ready to serve it to avoid it getting too soft. Just heat up the soup, add the pasta and cook until it’s done.
Hi Amy,
Could you use frozen ravioli for the sausage ravioli soup?
Like to try this recipe.
Thanks!
Hi Joanne! You absolutely can use frozen, just adjust the cook time if needed.