A southernized version of classic Italian Wedding Soup, made with spicy sausage and beef meatballs, collards and black-eyed peas.
Southernized Italian Wedding Soup
Italian Wedding Soup has long been a southern favorite, but this version inspired by John Besh, {affil link} makes it even more regional for us, and, it's a great way to use up some of those leftover black-eyed peas and collard greens you made for your New Year's Day meal.
Don't fret if you don't have any leftovers on hand though, because you can certainly used canned products very successfully here, or fresh, quick cooking greens such as turnip, mustard or even baby spinach.
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A traditional Italian Wedding Soup often uses a combination of beef and pork, and adds some typical meatball ingredients of bread crumb, egg, onion, garlic, parsley, and Parmesan cheese - forming the mixture into tiny meatballs. You can skip that step and use a spicy seasoned Italian sausage, breaking up the sausage as it cooks into larger chunks, rather than forming meatballs, and season with the meatball seasonings. Either way is good.
This is a delicious soup that comes together in virtually no time and is perfect for this chilly weather. Here's what you'll need to make my Southernized Italian Wedding Soup!
For the Meatballs:
- 1/2 pound ground beef
- 1/2 pound Italian sausage, removed from the casings
- 1/2 cup dry bread crumbs
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 2 teaspoons dried parsley
- Kosher salt and freshly cracked black pepper
- 1/4 cup grated Parmesan
For the Soup:
- 1 tablespoon bacon drippings, canola or vegetable oil
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1 (14.5 ounce) can stewed tomatoes
- 2 quarts chicken broth or stock
- 1/2 tablespoon dried parsley
- 1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 1/4 teaspoon Creole or Cajun seasoning, or to taste, optional
- 2 cups cooked collards, turnip, or mixed greens
- 2 cups cooked black-eyed peas
- Kosher salt and freshly cracked black pepper, to taste
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