Italian Wedding Ring Soup

When I was modifying this recipe I could not find any whole wheat orzo and bought these wheat pasta rings instead. My creative son John suggested that I change the name of the recipe to Italian Wedding Ring Soup because of the rings! I had to agree, it was a great idea.

• 2 mild turkey Italian sausages
• 32 ounces low sodium, fat free chicken broth
• 1/4 cup Safeway 'Eating Right Kids' whole wheat pasta rings
• 2 tablespoons diced red pepper
• 2 tablespoons diced onion
• 1 teaspoon dry basil
• 1 small can sliced button mushrooms (with juice)
• 1 Roma tomato diced
• 1 cup of raw spinach chopped

Remove the skins from the sausages and cook in a non-stick pan. Break the sausages up to small pieces as they cook. Add the chicken broth, and bring to a boil.

Stir in the pasta, the pepper, onion and basil and mushrooms.

Reduce heat to medium and cook until the pasta and vegetables are tender.

Add the tomato and spinach. Serve immediately.

Makes 2 servings. 243 Calories. 11g fat. 65mg Cholesterol. 998mg Sodium. 13g Carbohydrate. 6g sugar. 26g Protein.