Instant Pot Creamy Chicken Tortellini Soup
Mar 05, 2018, Updated May 02, 2021
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Instant Pot Creamy Chicken Tortellini Soup – Loaded with chicken, veggies, and cheesy tortellini, this is the easiest, yet most flavorful soup that needs to be a part of your instant pot dinner line-up!
Instant Pot Creamy Chicken Tortellini Soup
Chicken Tortellini Soup is a 20 minute creamy, savory and DELICIOUS soup studded with tender chicken bites, spinach, carrots, and cheese tortellini. Tasty and super easy to make, you’re simply going to love just how fast it all comes together.
I love me some soup, friends! Really, really love. BUT I have a house full of pasta obsessed beings. No matter what I make – Baked Pesto Chicken, Pan Seared Sirloin Steak, for instance – there, right behind me, you will find my husband making a pot of pasta to go with what I prepared.
In order to come to an understanding when we discuss soup, Creamy Tortellini Soup is where we all can and DO agree on.
Just like any other, this Instant Pot Creamy Chicken Tortellini Soup is a bowl full of hearty comfort! Can’t you tell? Chock full of chicken, pasta, and veggies, yet my favorite part is that I got to prepare it in the Instant Pot!
INGREDIENTS NEEDED TO MAKE INSTANT POT CREAMY CHICKEN TORTELLINI SOUP
- onions
- carrots
- celery
- garlic
- chicken
- seasonings
- chicken broth
- dried cheese tortellini
- spinach
- half & half OR heavy cream
HOW TO MAKE INSTANT POT CREAMY CHICKEN TORTELLINI SOUP
- First, we are going to combine the onions, celery, carrots, garlic, and chicken in our instant pot and sauté until chicken is browned and veggies are beginning to soften; about 5 minutes.
- Dried tortellini, broth, and seasonings will also be added to the pot and sealed.
- The soup is going to cook in the IP on “manual” for 5 minutes; then, wait 10 minutes to release pressure. If you do not have an “Instant Pot”, cook the soup in a pressure cooker for 13 minutes before releasing pressure/steam.
- When soup has finished cooking, remove the lid, stir in spinach and half & half; continue to cook for 1 minute on sauté, or until soup is heated through.
- Ladle into soup bowls and serve.
As is my goal with most recipes I make for Diethood, this is a ONE POT dinner made in under 30 minutes. It is also a complete meal, all in one bowl. That’s it. That’s this Instant Pot Creamy Chicken Tortellini Soup.
It requires a bit of front-end chopping to prep the veggies and chicken, all in all, maybe 6.5 minutes of prep.
In return, you will receive a cozy, warm, beyond delicious bowl filled with pasta + chicken + veggies + soup.
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Instant Pot Creamy Chicken Tortellini Soup
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 yellow onion, diced
- 2 celery stalks, sliced
- 2 carrots, thinly sliced
- 1 to 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 pound boneless skinless chicken breasts,, cubed
- 1 teaspoon Italian Seasoning
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- salt and fresh ground pepper, to taste
- 6 cups fat free low sodium chicken broth
- 9 ounces dried cheese tortellini
- 1 bag, 8 ounces fresh baby spinach
- 1 cup half & half OR heavy cream
Instructions
- Set your Instant Pot on “SAUTE” and melt the butter.
- Add diced onions, celery, carrots, garlic, and chicken; add seasonings, salt and pepper, and continue to cook for about 4 to 5 minutes, or until chicken is browned and veggies are just beginning to soften.
- Stir in chicken broth and tortellini; close the lid and lock it.
- Set the steam release to “SEALING”.
- Press “MANUAL” and adjust the time to 5 minutes.
- When the cycle is finished, wait 10 minutes and then manually release the pressure.
- Remove lid and press “SAUTE” again.
- Stir in the spinach and half & half; cook for 1 to 2 minutes, or until soup is heated through.
- Taste for seasonings and adjust accordingly.
- Ladle into soup bowls and serve.
Notes
Nutrition
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I added cumin, onion powder and doubled the garlic! Delicious!
Great recipe! I honestly thought it tasted better after I refrigerated it for awhile. Before refrigeration it tasted mostly like chicken broth, but after you could really taste the cream and other ingredients. Love this recipe and will definitely make again.
This recipe was extremely bland. If you like extra spice and savory-ness try a diff recipe or adjust this one. We added more spices (we added cumin, Lowry’s seasoning salt, paprika, garlic salt, and more salt, thyme, and Italian seasoning.
This is one of my favorite soup recipes!! I did bump up the spices and added a little more tortillon.
That’s great! I’m very glad you enjoyed it! Thank YOU! 🙂
Hi! Where do you find dried tortellini?
Hi!
Tortellini comes dried, frozen, and fresh so be sure to check the dried pasta aisle – that’s where I find the ones I use.