Spicy Sausage Potato Soup with Spinach

Spicy Sausage Potato Soup with Spinach could be a fast soup to create that’s loaded with flavor! It’s one amongst our favorites to fancy because the weather starts to cool down down.

I don’t like kale in the slightest degree, thus this can be my version of that illustrious soup at that native Italian edifice. That soup is everyplace. you recognize the one I’m talking concerning, that Zuppa Toscana soup. The one with sausage, kale, potatoes, and bacon. Well my version has spicy sausage, potatoes, and spinach. It’s flavourous broth can have you ever coming for additional. The hearty sausage and potatoes please everybody, and spinach…you will hardly style it. thus it’s a win win for those fastidious eaters.

Not into spicy? That’s fine. simply skip the crushed red pepper, and you’ve got no spice in the slightest degree. simply a hearty soup which will fill you right up. It pairs absolutely with a pleasant crusty bread that you simply will dip and eat. My alternative of bread for soups like this can be ciabatta.  Slice it into [*fr1] in. thick slices, brush it with oil, mixed with contemporary cut parsley on each side. Toss into a 450 degree kitchen appliance for three minutes on one aspect, and three minutes on the opposite. It comes out absolutely crusty for dipping, and crunching on.

You could add bacon to the current, or not. If you select to try to to thus, I’d use concerning four slices, withdraw 1/2 in. items, and steamed with the sausage. i select to omit this as a result of I’m not into chewy bacon, that is de facto what happens to that.

If you prefer kale, you'll add it, rather than the spinach, but again, we have a tendency to don’t like kale, and spinach hardly includes a flavor in the slightest degree, that could be a good way to sneak in greens for those folks that aren’t that keen on them. I’m truly one amongst people who isn’t keen on greens, however this I will handle. after all I do like spinach.

Ingredients

• 1 pounds spicy Itailan Sausge I get this already ground in a package like you buy ground beef, in the meat department
• 3/4 cup diced yellow onion
• 1 tablespoon minced garlic
• 1/2 teaspoon basil
• 1/2 teaspoon oregano
• 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper, optional If you can't find spicy sausage, you can up this to 1/2 teaspoon. If you bought spicy sausage, and don't want this soup to be super spicy, leave this out
• 5 cups chicken broth, low sodium
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 pound red potatoes, diced
• 3 cups spinach
• 1/4 cup heavy cream

Instructions

1. In a large pot, cook the sausage over medium to high heat, crumbling the sausage as you go, until no longer pink. Stir in the onion and garlic. Cook for 3 to 4 minutes, until the onion is translucent. 
2. Season with basil, oregano, and crushed red pepper (see above). Pour in the broth and bay leaf. Bring to a boil. Add the potatoes and cook until they are fork tender. About 8 to 10 minutes.
3. Stir in the spinach, and give it a quick stir. Stir in heavy cream. Season with salt and pepper, serve.