Easy Pizza Soup
Look, sometimes you want pizza but you also want to eat it with a spoon. Enter: pizza soup. It’s comforting, cheesy, and tastes like your favorite slice without having to preheat a thing. I lean on pantry ingredients and simple steps so it works for real weeknights when you’re not trying to make everything from scratch. After years of developing dinner recipes that don’t disappoint, trust me when I say this one does not come out boring.
Servings 8 cups
Calories 234kcal
Ingredients
- ½ cup chopped onions
- ½ cup chopped green bell peppers
- 2-3 garlic cloves
- 1 pound ground beef, ground turkey, or ground Italian Sausage
- 1 ½ teaspoons Italian Seasoning Adjust to taste.
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 2 oz pepperoni This was ¼ cup. Sliced in half or into small pieces.
- 2 cups marinara or pizza sauce
- 14.5 oz canned fire roasted tomatoes
- 2-3 cups broth Any broth beef, chicken, vegetable, etc. Less broth for thick soup.
- shredded mozzarella cheese Optional topping.
Instructions
- Heat a Dutch oven or large pot on medium-high heat.
- Add the ground beef or Italian sausage to the Dutch oven or large pot with the onions, bell peppers, garlic, Italian Seasoning, salt, and pepper to taste. Break down the meat with a meat chopper.
- Stir and cook until the meat is no longer pink. Drain any excess fat from the meat if necessary.
- Add the pepperoni, marinara sauce, fire-roasted tomatoes, and broth to the pot and stir.
- Adjust the heat to low and place a lid on the pot. Simmer for 15-20 minutes until thick and the ingredients are well combined.
- Top the soup with shredded mozzarella cheese.
Notes
Marinara sauce is a lot thicker than pizza sauce since pizza sauce is meant to spread over crust. I prefer to use marinara in this recipe for that reason. Marinara sauce also typically has more flavor.
You can thin out thick soup by adding additional broth.
Nutrition
Serving: 1cup | Calories: 234kcal | Carbohydrates: 8g | Protein: 17g | Fat: 14g