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Homemade Stuffing Mix
Curried Rice and Raisins Mix
Three Bean Soup Mix
Chili Jar Mix
Cheese Soup Mix
Spiral Soup in a Jar Mix
with Printable Gift Tags
by Jane Lake
This soup mix recipe is one of the easiest jar recipes to assemble, using ingredients that you may already have in the pantry. Although you could use plain spiral pasta for this jar mix, the tricolor variety adds a lot of visual interest.
As you can see from our photos, you can separate the three colors of pasta for a pretty layered look, or simply pour the tricolor spirals into the jar as they come from the package. Both versions look attractive when you add our free printable jar labels - one for the front of your jar, and a label of instructions for the back.
Although I like this soup as it comes from the jar mix, you can add additional vegetables along with the canned tomatoes. Leftover peas and carrots, frozen french-style green beans or frozen corn would blend in beautifully. Serve this soup piping hot, with rounds of melba toast, crackers, or toasted garlic bread. Garnish with grated parmesan, if desired.
Spiral Soup Jar Mix
Flavor Version 1:
1 tbsp. dried parsley flakes
optional: 1 tsp dried basil, 1/2 tsp celery seed and 1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/4 tsp. pepper
1/3 cup beef boullion granules1/2 cup dried minced or flaked onion
3-1/2 cups of tri-colored spiral pasta (or enough to fill the jar)
Flavor Version 2: ~ contributed by Kate
2 TB dried basil
1 tsp herbes de provence
1/2 tsp celery seed
1/2 tsp garlic powder (not garlic salt)
1/4 tsp ground pepper
1/4 cup dried onions; 4 chicken bouillon cubes
3/4 cup dried tortellini
Fill the rest of the jar with the tri-colored spiral pasta.
Layered Gift in a Jar Instructions:
Easy to assemble and inexpensive to make!
Starting with the spices and ending with the pasta, layer the ingredients, in the order given, in a wide-mouthed 1-quart Mason jar. If you want a more formal look, separate the tri-color pasta and make a layer of each color.
Print the jar labels provided on this page and glue in place, or make your own gift labels.
Cover the top of the jar with a circle of fabric held in place with a rubber band. Cover the rubber band with a twist of raffia or a ribbon and small bow.Free Printable Jar Labels
Print the Spiral Soup Label for the front of the jar, then print the Spiral Soup Directions label. Cut out both labels and glue to the jar.
Just made this as a test run. I modified Flavor Version 1 by adding 1 TB dried basil, 1/2 tsp celery salt (bought wrong spice), 8 tsp beef bouillon granules. I originally used 4 tsp of beef bouillon, but it lacked taste. I ate about 2.5 bowls of it and I think this soup is okay. It reminds me of what a poor college student would eat. It's very reminiscent of minestrone soup, but without the veggies. So everytime I take a bite of the soup, I can't help but think something else is lacking b/c it reminds me of minestrone soup but it's not as filling as minestrone. Not sure if I want to gift this since, to me, it tastes like spiral pasta w/beef stock and onions. Will try out the other jar mix soups and see which is the most tastiest.
Thank you for this, Joan. It is valuable feedback and helps others to decide if the soup is a good one for them or not.
Beef barley is one of my favourites, and the chicken noodle is excellent, but with both you are adding meat to the jar mix. Which is fine, just depends what you want.
I use this recipe every year at thanksgiving and call it "Turkey Spiral Soup". Its great as a hostess gift for thanksgiving, and I add 2 C. of leftover cubed turkey to the ingredients, adding it in the last 10 minutes of cooking. The colors of spiral pasta are like autumn anyway, so this looks really cute.
Oh, I also add 2 T. dried chicken bouillon to the spice mix, and a bay leaf too.
