Healthy Meatball Soup Recipe- Light Italian Meatball Soup for Diabetics

This healthy soup recipe is amazing!! I created this healthy meatball soup recipe on a cold winter day (well, it’s Arizona, but it was 65 degrees), with a family that had the sniffles.  I used ground turkey to lighten the menu, also it’s what I always have at my house:)

This light Italian Meatball soup recipe is perfect for diabetics.  For great diabetes recipes, I love to add tons of vegetables that fill me up, but don’t have very many carbs.

This healthy soup recipe is a fast soup, took about 30 minutes to cook, with maybe 5 minutes of chopping.  Feel free to add your favorite vegetables to make it your own, I used what I had in the refrigerator.

Add a couple small yukon potatoes for those in your family not counting their carbs (aka kiddos that need some carbs or grumpy spouses).

I would have added celery, kale and zucchini if I had them in my refrigerator.

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Light Italian Meatball Soup - Diabetic Italian Wedding Soup

This soup is a a warming light soup with tons of veggies and ground turkey for protein. With diabetes, sometimes it feels like we can't eat our favorite foods, but this soup is pure comfort food!!

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Course

Main Dish

Cuisine

Italian

Prep Time

10 minutes

Cook Time

30 minutes

Servings

servings MetricUS Imperial

Ingredients

• 1 32 oz low sodium chicken broth
• 1 14.5oz diced tomatoes canned Substitute 1 cup low sugar marinara if necessary

Chopped veggies

• 4 carrots
• 1/2 onion
• 2 bell peppers
• 4 stalks celery chopped

Meatballs

• 1 lb lean ground turkey I use 93/7
• 1 egg
• 2 Tbs granulated onion
• 2 Tbs garlic powder
• 2 Tbs italian seasoning
• 1 head broccoli

Course Main Dish Cuisine Italian Prep Time 10 minutes Cook Time 30 minutes Servings servings MetricUS Imperial Ingredients 1 32 oz low sodium chicken broth 1 14.5oz diced tomatoes canned Substitute 1 cup low sugar marinara if necessary Chopped veggies 4 carrots 1/2 onion 2 bell peppers 4 stalks celery chopped Meatballs 1 lb lean ground turkey I use 93/7 1 egg 2 Tbs granulated onion 2 Tbs garlic powder 2 Tbs italian seasoning 1 head broccoli

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Instructions

1. Chop the chopped veggies. Feel free to add celery, zucchini or any other veggies you have on hand.

   
2. Sauté the veggies for 3-5 minutes

   
3. Add chicken broth and diced tomatoes (with juice), bring to a boil.
4. Mix all the turkey meatball ingredients. Make small meatballs, in this version, the meatballs were smaller than a golf ball. (the smaller the meatballs, the faster they cook).
5. Drop meatballs in boiling soup one at a time. Cook for 20 minutes, or until meatballs are cooked. Add broccoli for 3 minutes and serve.

   
6. If you want to add kale at the end it only needs about 1-2 minutes to cook.

   

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