Acini Di Pepe Spinach soup

While rearranging my pantry I came across a pack of acini di pepe pasta. It’s a tiny pasta that works well in soups and salads. The name apparently means “seeds of pepper”. This tiny pasta is also used for a cold salad called frog eye salad. I had initially bought it to make the salad but never ended up making it.

I used the recipe in the box itself for our lunch today. It’s been extremely windy and cold here for the past couple of days. A hot bowl of soup is perfect for this weather.

The recipe is very simple and the soup was ready in a matter of minutes. While searching the internet, I learned that this soup is called Italian wedding soup if you add meatballs to it. The name implies a marriage of flavors rather than being served at an actual wedding. But of course I didn’t tell my husband that part ;-) He had his lunch thinking he was having a part from a wedding meal!

Read on for the recipe. This post goes to Kids Delight event, hosted this month by PJ under the theme Winter warmers.

Recipe source: Ronzoni

Ingredients:

  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • 1 medium onion, finely chopped
  • 2 cloves of garlic
  • 6 cups of broth/water
  • 1/2 cup acini di Pepe pasta, uncooked
  • 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg, optional
  • 10 oz pack of frozen spinach
  • Salt and pepper as needed
  • Grated Parmesan cheese, optional

Method:

  1. Heat butter in a pan. Sauté onion and garlic until it turns light pink.
  2. Add water or broth and bring it to a boil. Add pasta, nutmeg , salt and pepper and simmer for 5 minutes.
  3. Add spinach and cook for an additional 5 minutes, stirring in between. Pasta should be cooked by now. Take off the heat and serve with grated Parmesan cheese if preferred.

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9 thoughts on “Acini Di Pepe Spinach soup”

  1. This is one of our favourite soups, sometimes I add chicken meat for protein and I had to ditch the Spinach because it is very high in Oxalates and I am a kidney stoner. Good news is Kale works perfectly as a sub and my family loves it just as much!

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  4. Never heard of that pasta, they sure look super cute, love how you have captured that steam from that hot bowl ! And lol on that wedding feast thingy, some things are better left untold 😜

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  5. Those tiny pasta with spinach makes this soup seriously a super filling meal while the weather is super down. I love to add pasta in my soups. Lovely bowl of comforting soup there.

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  6. Never seen that tiny pasta but I do like buckwheat and or barley in my soups. I think I shall replace them with this pasta once in a while but only if I could find them here.

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  9. I hope the weather warms up a little by next week, when I return. Even I like tiny pasta in soups. I don’t remember if it was acini di pepe pasta but apt for soups.

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