It’s a perfectly seasoned, richly flavored soup that’s made with Italian seasoned pork sausage, pasta, lots of tender fresh vegetables and garlic to season. In other words you’ll get plenty of rich and meaty, herbaceous flavor in every spoonful!
Italian Sausage Soup
Yield: 6 servings
Materials
- 1 clove garlic minced
- 1 medium onion chopped
- 1 tsp Italian seasoning
- ¼ tsp black pepper
- 1 lb hot Italian sausage
- ½ lb mild Italian sausage
- 1 cup sliced carrots
- 1 can diced or stewed tomatoes 14.5 oz can
- 4 cups chicken broth
- 2 small zucchini cubed
- 1 small diced red pepper
- 2 cups spinach
Instructions
- Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Break sausage into chunks into pot.
- Let brown on bottom about 3 minutes, then turn and break up sausage and cook until no longer pink. Transfer to a paper towel lined plate, leave rendered fat in pot over medium-high heat.
- You should have about 1 Tbsp fat in pot, if needed add a little more olive oil or drain off some excess fat if there's too much.
- Add onions, carrots and bell pepper and saute until starting to soften, about 6 minutes. Add garlic and saute 1 minute longer.
- Pour in broth, tomatoes and add Italian seasoning. Return sausage to pot and season mixture with pepper to taste.
- Bring to a simmer then cover, reduce heat to medium-low and let simmer 20-25 minutes.
- While mixture simmers, prepare and cook a small shell pasta in a separate pot.
- Remove from heat. Stir in spinach and let stand for 5 minutes.
- Add desired amounts of pasta to soup.
- Serve warm, topping servings with grated parmesan, or cilantro or chopped green onion.
