This Keto Italian Wedding Soup recipe makes a fantastic low carb meal for the entire family. The meat balls are SO tasty, no one will miss the carbs!

Italian wedding soup was one of my favorite things at a Canadian chain of Italian restaurants when I was younger.

The traditional soup is one of the best cold day comfort foods - A flavourful, savory broth, pasta, spinach, and tasty beef meatballs.

I loved the whole thing, but when you’d happen across a restaurant that made really fantastic mini meatballs? That was the *best*.

When I went on a keto diet, I knew I’d have to come up with an amazing recipe for this sensational Italian soup.

... and I did!

This cozy soup recipe really knocked it out of the park - the homemade meatballs are AMAZEBALLS (sorry!).

This is definitely one of those easy low carb meals that work for the whole family - my husband was nuts about it, and in no way is he low carbbing.

It’ll definitely be making regular appearances in our future meal plans.

On the subject of being on a low-carb diet, this is a very low carb soup, coming in at only 6 grams of net carbs per serving.

Need to cut that down a bit? Skip the carrot to save almost 2 carbs per serving!

I've since come up with a Italian Wedding Soup Mix recipe, as a low carb camping recipe - Just Add Meat & Water!

Ingredients

This keto meatball soup is really easy to make, but there are quite a few ways that you can change up the ingredients to make it your own.

So, let’s go over what’s in the recipe, and suggestions for ingredient swaps:

Meatball Ingredients

The Meat

Traditionally, the meatballs in Italian Wedding Soup are made from ground beef, ground pork, or a mixture of the two - and you can definitely do any of those to make these keto meatballs.

We have to limit pork and beef in this house, though, so we use different meats,

Usually, I use ground chicken... but you can use ground turkey to make fantastic turkey meatballs for this soup, too.

Everything Else

Here’s everything else you need to make the low carb mini meatballs for this soup:

Fresh onion
Almond Flour
Fresh parsley
Parmesan cheese
Garlic cloves
Large egg
Dried basil
Dried oregano
Ground black pepper
Salt

Feel free to use 1 teaspoon of Italian seasoning in place of the basil and oregano.

Soup Ingredients

Konjac Rice

Traditional Italian wedding soup usually involves tiny pasta - but that’s wheat and carbs, so I skip it in favour of konac.

I love the texture of Konjac Rice in this, and find it the closest low carb pasta substitute for the real thing.

If you’re not a fan of konjac, feel free to swap it out for 2-3 cups of cauliflower rice.

Chicken Broth

You can use any chicken broth, chicken stock, or bone broth that you like.

If you’re using store-bought, just be sure to check the ingredients and nutritional information to make sure there’s nothing in there that you’re not wanting in there.

Fresh Spinach

We generally use fresh baby spinach, but feel free to swap that out for a pack of frozen chopped spinach, but feel free to swap that out for the chopped up leafy greens you like.

Tuscan kale, curly kale, collard greens... even Swiss chard!

The Supporting Ingredients

The flavour of the broth is boosted with the following:

Shredded carrot
Garlic
Salt and black pepper

How to Make Low Carb Italian Wedding Soup

Full recipe follows, but here's a pictorial overview, along with some extra helpful tips.:

Tender Meatballs:

Measure all meatball ingredients in to a large bowl, mix until well blended.

Form meatball mixture into small meatballs - using a heaping teaspoon worth of meat mixture for each meatball, less if you’d like really tiny meatballs.. Place rolled meatballs on a baking sheet for now.

An 8 part image showing the meatball batter being mixed together and formed into tiny meatballs.

This is the size I roll them, but you can go smaller if you'd like!

Soup:

Drain and rinse the Konjac rice, WELL - at least 2 minutes of rinsing.

Place into a dry, large pot, cook over medium-high heat until excess liquid has cooked off.

Add garlic to the soup pot, cook for 1 minute.

Add broth, bring to a boil.

Add meatballs, carrot, and baby spinach to the boiling broth. Turn element down to medium heat, cook until meatballs are cooked through and spinach has wilted.

Season the hot soup with salt and pepper, to taste.

Garnish with flakes of Parmesan cheese on top.

Leftovers

Allow extra soup to cool to room temperature before transferring to an airtight container for storing in the fridge (3 days, max).

Otherwise, carefully pour soup into freezer bags and freeze for up to 3 months.

More Keto Italian Recipes

Missing your dinners out at Italian restaurants? Here are a few keto recipes to make low carb versions at home!

Keto Mozzarella Sticks
Low Carb Chicken Piccata Zoodles
Keto Chicken Parmesan
Pizza Stuffed Peppers
Keto Marinara Sauce
Pesto Chicken Lasagna
Keto Spinach Feta Lasagna [Spanakopita Lasagna]
Portabello Mushroom Pizzas
Keto Lasagna
Pizza Stuffed Peppers
Keto Tiramisu
Keto Biscotti
Keto Spaghetti and Meatballs
Keto Stromboli Meatloaf

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A bowl of low carb Italian wedding soup.

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