We make our wedding soup as follows: boneless skinless chicken breasts boiled with some celery and onion to make a nice broth we use some canned low sodium chicken broth or base, too Little meatballs just like we make for spaghetti but NO garlic boiled chopped celery escarole cleaned and cooked and finely chopped and doughball flour and egg fried tiny pcs. of dough Remove onion and celery after broth is made and add cooked meatballs, celery, greens and doughballs lots of grated Locatelli cheese on top for a delicious soup ENJOY!

My family is Italian also. We never used pasta. Instead we used chicken thighs, chicken broth, celery, onion. Then we made dough balls the size of your index fingernail. We also made separate beef and sausage balls the same size. We also made hard boiled eggs, separate the yolk, chop up the white into small pieces then add to soup.. Then crumble the yolks and add that last... This is so good! Leave it boil a few minutes then simmer...

For the recipe, I browned chicken thighs in olive oil in a Dutch oven. Browning the chicken adds flavor. I purchased 4 chicken thighs (bone in, with skin) which was about 2 lbs. The recipe calls for adding 6 quarts of water to simmer the chicken. I recommend using a 7-quart Dutch oven or 8-quart stock pot.