Turkey Lasagna Soup
Easy ground Turkey Lasagna Soup is a 30-minute soup recipe, cozy and delicious served with fresh ricotta cheese and cilantro! This hearty soup is perfect for a soup night served with hot crunchy bread.
We love an easy 30-minute soup recipe! This easy lasagana soup is packed with soup goodness. Soup goodness means it’s a cozy recipe, with simple ingredients–delicious, flavorful, and satisfying. For this Turkey Lasagna Soup with ricotta cheese, make and enjoy a quick weeknight dinner in one pot!
Turkey Lasagna Soup
The mixture of ground turkey in a rich tomato-based broth with fresh herbs and spices–so comforting with your favorite pasta. Lasagna is so good, so the idea of making lasagna and a soup together is a match made in heaven!
You may also want to try my Slow Cooker Chicken Enchilada Soup (so good!), another great recipe for soup season! Or if you want to make a Mediterrean ground turkey soup, add kalamata olives and fresh parsley!
Why we love this recipe
- Dinner is on the table in 30-minutes.
- It’s a fun weekend soup to make for company – served with a side salad and hot crunchy bread.
- Super easy recipe to make!
- Great for a potluck.
Gather these ingredients
- Oil + chopped onion
- Ground turkey: you can also use ground beef or ground chicken
- Crushed cloves garlic
- Chopped cilantro
- Chicken broth
- Marinara sauce: we use DeLallo brand (store-bought)
- Black beans: or any beans
- Diced tomatoes: or you can use crushed tomatoes or even fresh tomatoes
- Salt and fresh-cracked black pepper
- Lasagna noodles: whole wheat or gluten free are our favorite
- Shredded mozzarella cheese: or sharp white cheese
- Ricotta cheese
- Grated Parmesan cheese
The option to make this lasagna soup in a slow cooker is included below, so be sure to keep reading!
How do you make turkey lasagna soup?
The first step is important for this recipe. Sauting the onions and garlic, and turkey meat first is key. It just adds so much flavor.
- Heat a large soup pot or Dutch oven over medium heat; add the oil and cook the onion, adding the ground turkey and cooking until browned.
- Add the crushed garlic and cook some more.
- Put in the cilantro, broth, water, marinara sauce, black beans, and fresh black pepper and bring to a boil.
- Break the lasagna pieces into small pieces and add to the pot; cover, reduce heat and simmer until pasta is tender.
- In a bowl, combine the ricotta, Parmesan, sharp white cheese and cilantro, and mix.
- Top each serving with ricotta cheese mixture, fresh-cracked pepper and chopped cilantro on top.
Tips and substitutions:
What I love about this Lasagna Soup with ground turkey is that you don’t spend hours in front of the stove, and it’s ready in 30 minutes! This recipe makes about 8 cups.
- Substitute the ground turkey with either ground chicken or ground beef. If using ground beef, make sure it is drained well.
- Bulk up the soup with additional ingredients like roasted bell peppers, corn, or a different type of beans. Add more veggies like spinach, zucchini (noodles or zoodles), or even kale.
- Serve with favorite cheese on top. You can skip the ricotta cheese mixture and just add grated cheeses.
- If you don’t have cilantro (or not a fan), you can use fresh parsley. In the summer months, basil is excellent.
- Make your own marina sauce, or keep it simple and buy a jar of store-bought.
- Make ahead and enjoy the next day. Stores well in the fridge up to 3-5 days.
- How to freeze lasagna soup? Make ahead without the cheese, and add just before serving, so it melts and is nice and fresh. Of course you would not make the topping ahead or freeze it. This would need to be made fresh the day of or a few days before serving the soup.
- Can you make this in the crock pot? Yes, brown the turkey first, add the ingredients (except the cheeses) into the crock pot and cook on low for about 2 hours. Test to make sure the pasta is cooked through, and then serve with cheese topping.
How do you serve Lasagna Soup?
Make the ricotta topping to serve on top of the soup right before it’s time to eat.
The topping is a ricotta cheese mixed with two of my favorites cheeses, plus cilantro.
A basic house salad is an obvious choice for this soup.
Garlic bread or garlic knots (Gina’s recipe is fantastic!) or buttermilk rolls would also be delicious!
So get a pot of soup simmering on the stove.
Breaking bread together doesn’t always mean it has to be shared in your home; you can bring a pot of soup to bless another family!
More soup recipes to try:
Broccoli Cheese and Potato {Skinnytaste}
Best Clam Chowder {Most popular soup recipe on Reluctant Entertainer}
Get the Recipe:
Turkey Lasagna Soup
Ingredients
- 2 Tbsp. oil
- ½ onion, chopped
- 1 pound ground turkey
- 2-3 crushed cloves garlic
- 4 Tbsp. chopped cilantro, divided
- 3 cups chicken broth
- 2 ½ cups water
- 26 oz marinara sauce, I use DeLallo brand
- 1 15 oz can Black Beans, drained
- 1 15 oz can diced tomatoes
- Salt and Fresh-cracked black pepper
- 9 oz. broken lasagna noodles, whole wheat or gluten free, broken into pieces
- ½ cup shredded mozzarella cheese, or sharp white cheese
- ½ cup ricotta cheese
- ½ cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 2 Tbsp. chopped fresh cilantro
Instructions
- Heat a large soup pot or Dutch oven over medium heat; add the oil and cook the onion for 2-3 minutes, adding the ground turkey and cooking until browned, breaking it up as it cooks, about 4 to 5 minutes.
- Add the crushed garlic and cook 2 to 3 minutes.
- Add the cilantro, broth, water, marinara sauce, black beans, tomatoes, and fresh black pepper and bring to a boil.
- Add the broken pasta; cover, reduce heat and simmer about 10-15 minutes, until pasta is tender.
- In a medium bowl, combine the ricotta, Parmesan, sharp white cheese and cilantro, and mix.
- Top each serving with 2 Tbsp ricotta cheese mixture, fresh-cracked pepper and fresh cilantro on top. Makes about 8 cups.
Notes
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when do you add the diced tomatoes?
Add with the beans! :)
This soup is delicious. We received the recipe from our daughter. I am a 82 year old male and it looked so good I had to try making it. The two photos seem to show Black Beans which would make an interesting addition but they are not listed in the ingredients. BUT one can of diced tomatoes are in the ingredient list but don’t appear any where in the directions. I added them along with the Marinara Sauce, Broth and Water and it came out great. Looking forward to trying other recipes from this site
Yes, black beans, Henry! Thanks for pointing that out (was left out of the recipe, but for sure you DO add 1 can to this recipe). Fixed and thank you again. I’m impressed you are cooking like this at age 82! Awesome!
Oh man, this soup looks like the perfect cozy, comfort meal. YUM!
What a fun adventure!!!! I am looking forward to meeting my newly married girl for coffee and grocery shopping between her classes and my appointments. ordinary but special.
I am totally going to make this soup!!!
Have a fun few weeks….we LOVE Bend!
Looks delish! Totally going to try it this weekend!
As usual you offer food for the body as well as for the soul. This ricotta-topped healthy soup looks amazing. And yes, hospitality is a condition of the heart first. I love your stories so much. We are facing the very real possibility of having to leave the farm because of Oklahoma turnpike construction, and this churns up everything in my heart. So many goodbyes to say! Very sad. But I also know that it’s special here in large part due to the openness we have cultivated with our people, and we can achieve that anywhere. Thank you for your loving examples. Have fun in Bend!! I didn’t know you’re on snapchat. I’ll be stalking you there, too. Haha XOXO
Thanks, Marie. Happy to find you on snapchat, too, with your OK snaps! And Happy New Year!