From Betty Crocker

This hearty meatless stew is comfort food for a wintery day.

Thick Italian Winter Stew with Vermicelli

From Better Homes and Gardens

In this slow cooker recipe, dried beans simmer with sausage and Italian seasoning all day while you're away. When you come home, stir in the spinach and dinner is served.

Tuscan Sausage and Bean Soup

From Betty Crocker

Warm and hearty! This rich Italian soup combines sausage, broccoli, tomatoes and, best of all, pasta.

Italian Sausage Soup

From Family Circle

This classic Italian soup always features the trio of meatballs, greens usually spinach or escarole and pasta.

20 minute Italian Wedding Soup

From Better Homes and Gardens

Serve this low fat, high fiber soup as a light lunch or with a sandwich for dinner.

Italian Lentil Soup

From Betty Crocker

88% less sat fat, 81% less fat, 34% fewer calories than the original recipe. Turkey sausage, kale and cannellini beans are the stars.

"Healthified" Italian Sausage Soup

From Better Homes and Gardens

This minestrone tastes even better if if you use the make-ahead directions. Just reheat the chilled soup and add the cooked pasta and fresh spinach for a quick low-fat main dish.

Minestrone

From Family Circle

This version of the classic Italian soup includes turkey meatballs, which are added in the last step of this vegetable soup recipe. Purists can leave them out.

Minestrone

From Better Homes and Gardens

A white sauce mix and dried tortellini make this satisfying soup recipe extra easy; stirring in the spinach at the last minute gives it fresh-from-the garden flavor.

Creamy Tortellini Soup

From Fine Cooking Magazine

This Italian soup--which has as many variations as there are cooks--is chock full of pasta, beans, and vegetables, making it a hearty one-dish meal.

Pasta e Fagioli

From Diabetic Living

According to legend, this seafood soup originated in San Francisco, the creation of Italian-immigrant fisherman who were as skilled with a soup kettle as they were with a net.

Seafood Cioppino

From Diabetic Living

Italian wedding soup gets its name from the marriage of meat and greens. Use lean ground beef, pork, or lamb.

Italian Wedding Soup

From EatingWell

A well-stocked pantry is a good starting point for making a hearty homemade soup like this one. Just add some fresh vegetables, bread and cheese and you've got dinner (and tomorrow's lunch).

Italian Peasant Soup with Cabbage, Beans & Cheese

From Betty Crocker

Fans of seafood will fall for this flavorful stew featuring clams, cod, shrimp and scallops.

Italian Seafood Stew with Garlic-Herb Croutons

From Better Homes and Gardens

In Italy, there are as many versions of zuppa di pesce, or fish soup, as there are coastal towns. Serve this low-calorie, low-fat fish soup as if visiting Italy--topped with a slice of toasted bread.

Italian Fish Soup

From Food & Wine

This homey chicken dish is loaded with soft, sweet roasted peppers and onions. To punch up the flavor, Ethan Stowell adds plump, meaty green olives, like Italian Castelvetrano or Cerignola. Serve the stew with crusty bread to sop up all of the juices.

Braised Chicken with Olives and Sweet Peppers

From Food & Wine

In Panicale, the small Umbrian town where Nancy Silverton's house is located, Matt Molina bought Umbrian lentils -- a small, brownish-green variety grown in Castelluccio. "They have a rich, buttery flavor that's so comforting," he says. Molina simmered them slowly until they were exquisitely creamy.

Umbrian Lentil Stew with Olive-Oil-Fried Eggs

From Food & Wine

Top-quality jarred pesto is the key to this soup, contributing a lovely, herby nuttiness. Simmering the soup with a Parmigiano-Reggiano rind adds even more flavor complexity.

Chickpeas and Swiss Chard in Parmesan and Sun-Dried-Tomato Broth

From Food & Wine

This recipe is an adaptation of the enticing stew served at Nicolas Jimenez's Restaurante Tubal, in Navarra. Jimenez updates the dish by reducing the cooking time, which keeps the vegetable flavors bright. He also lightens the recipe by adding less flour to the sauce of olive oil, garlic, and ham.

Vegetable Stew with Crisp Ham and Garlic

From Food & Wine

Ribollita ("twice boiled" in Italian) is a Tuscan classic made from reheated minestrone. Charlie Parker spikes his version with sweet smoked paprika and fire-roasted tomatoes.

Smoky Ribollita

From Fine Cooking Magazine

Tuscan Peasant Soup with Rosemary & Pancetta

From Heart-Healthy Living

Minestrone is Italian for "big soup," and this one--full of beans, vegetables and brown rice--is big indeed. It's dinner in a bowl.

Chunky Minestrone

From Fine Cooking Magazine

This is my variation on a classic Italian soup that traditionally has more escarole and beans than broth. Escarole is one of the easiest greens to prepare since you don't need to stem it; just slice the whole head across into ribbons before washing.

Escarole & White Bean Soup with Rustic Croutons

From Better Homes and Gardens

This soup recipe is a vegetarian lovers delight. It's full of vegetables, mushrooms, barley, and red beans--all slow cooked to perfection for those busy week nights.

Barley Vegetable Soup

From The Food Channel

Hearty Italian ribollita pairs the fresh and healthy flavor of Italian vegetables with rich chicken broth, cannellini beans, fresh herbs, rustic bread and Parmesan cheese for a satisfying one-dish meal.

Tuscan Vegetable and Bread Soup