Tortelinni Soup

So here’s my edited version of a recipe I found off of www. Sparkrecipes .com. It’s really simple and rather tasty!


Ingredients:
1 Package of fresh spinach (you can use the frozen kind too)
1 Onion
2 cloves of garlic
1 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil
2.5 Cups of Whole wheat tortellini ( I prefer the Buitoni brand)
4 cups of fat free lower sodium chicken broth
4 cups of crushed tomatoes (If you use the Tuttorosso brand with crushed basil, you will love it!)
Jimmy Dean breakfast turkey sausage cut up into desired size (I only use 9 links)
Italian seasoning spice
Salt and pepper for taste

Instructions:
Chop up onion and garlic and combine with olive oil in a frying pan. Fry until the onions are transparent. Once the onions are transparent, add turkey sausage for about 1 minute or until browned. In a large cooking pot, combine the chicken broth, crushed tomatoes, onion, garlic and sausage mixture and place on medium heat and cover. In another smaller cooking pot, fill with water and bring to a boil. Once the water is boiling, put in tortellini. Once the tortellini is finished cooking, drain and add to the pot with the other ingredients. Next, boil the spinach. Once the spinach has reached a bright green color and is soft, drain and add it to the other cooking pot. Add spices as desired and let ingredients remain to cook together for about 10 minutes.

Here are my calculations per serving for nutritional value for this meal which has 10 servings of 1 cups each:

Calories- 168
Carbs- 21
Fat- 5
Protien- 10
Sodium- 670
Fiber- 4

***I have a picture of this but am unsure of how to add it on here. Help?