Ravioli and Spinach Soup

 

RAVIOLI AND SPINACH SOUP

If you love Ravioli as much as I do and you like Spinach, then you’ll love this soup. It’s comforting, it’s tasty and most of all, it’s a simple soup to make.

 Ingredients
2 cups (500 mL) packed fresh spinach, coarsely chopped
1 cup (250 mL) thawed peas
1 cup (250 mL) thinly sliced mushrooms
1/4 tsp (1 mL) salt
1 pkg (454 g) frozen cheese ravioli, cooked
~~~~~ Vegetable Stock ~~~~~
2 carrots, chopped
2 celery stalks, chopped
2 onions, (with skin) chopped
1 plum tomato
3 cloves garlic, halved
1 pkg (14 g) dried mixed mushrooms
1/4 tsp (1 mL) salt
1/4 tsp (1 mL) peppercorns
2 bay leaves

Directions

Make your vegetable stock: In a slow cooker, combine carrots, celery, onions, tomato, garlic, dried mushrooms, salt, peppercorns, bay leaves, and 7 cups (1.75 L) water. Cover and cook on low until flavorful and vegetables are soft, 6 to 8 hours, or you can use premade vegetable stock.  Strain into a clean saucepan, pressing vegetables to extract liquid. 

Bring stock to boil over medium-high heat. Add spinach, peas, mushrooms, and salt; simmer until spinach is wilted.

Divide ravioli among 4 bowls; ladle soup over top.

Elizabeth Kilbride is a Writer and Editor with forty years of experience in writing with 12 of those years in the online content sphere. Author of 5 books and a Graduate with an Associate of Arts from Phoenix University in Business Management, then a degree. Mass Communication and Cyber Analysis from Phoenix University, then on to Walden University for her master’s in criminology with emphasis on Cybercrime and Identity Theft, and is currently studying for her Ph.D. degree in Criminology. Her work portfolio includes coverage of politics, current affairs, elections, history, and true crime. In her spare time, Elizabeth is also a gourmet cook, life coach, and avid artist, proficient in watercolor, acrylic, oil, pen and ink, Gouche, and pastels. As a political operative having worked on over 300 campaigns during her career, Elizabeth has turned many life events into books and movie scripts while using history to weave interesting storylines. She also runs 6 blogs that range from art to life coaching, to food, to writing, and opinion or history pieces each week.