Sausage Lentil Vegetable Soup
Sausage Lentil Vegetable Soup

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, sausage lentil vegetable soup. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Heat oil in large saucepan or Dutch oven over medium-high heat until hot. Place sausage in a large pot. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Add onion, celery and chopped garlic, and saute until tender and translucent.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have sausage lentil vegetable soup using 16 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Sausage Lentil Vegetable Soup:
  1. Prepare chicken broth (Better Than Bullion is a favorite!)
  2. Make ready sausage (Dealers choice! I use pork, mild or hot.)
  3. Prepare large chopped onion (Any type will work. Use your favorite.)
  4. Prepare chopped celery
  5. Prepare finely chopped garlic
  6. Prepare extra virgin olive oil
  7. Prepare Herbs De Provence (Please try to find/use this herb combo!)
  8. Make ready dried lentils (Your choice, any type.)
  9. Prepare diced fresh uncooked yams
  10. Get fresh or frozen green peas
  11. Get frozen (4 cups of fresh) spinach
  12. Prepare can chopped green chilis (Mild or Hot)
  13. Take can tomato paste
  14. Take apple cider vinegar
  15. Make ready local/favorite honey
  16. Take Salt/Pepper to taste

It is loaded with flavor from the hot Italian sausage, lentils, ham, and veggies. And loaded with healthy benefits because lentils are low in calories, rich in iron and folate and an excellent source of protein. This lentil soup can easily become a vegetarian version by using a vegetable broth base and eliminating the sausage, and believe me it's just as good! It's hearty and filling and you really don't need to serve anything else with it, unless you have a weakness for warm, crusty bread with butter like I do.

Instructions to make Sausage Lentil Vegetable Soup:
  1. In a large stock pot, prepare broth.
  2. Dice onions and celery. Mince garlic.
  3. In skillet, sweat the onions, celery, and garlic until the onions become slightly translucent. Add entire contents of skillet to stock pot.
  4. Prepare the sausage. If using links, consider taking the casings off. I do. Or, you can use loose sausage. Make small 2" meatballs and, using a large spoon, carefully drop into the boiling broth. Cook for 20 mins. on medium heat. The meat doesn't have to thoroughly cook, it just needs to firm up in the broth.
  5. Add the yams, peas, chili's, and Herbs De Provence. Cook for 30 mins.
  6. Add the lentils. Cook for 45 mins.
  7. Add the cider vinegar, honey, and spinach. After returning to a boil, cook for 20 min.
  8. If the soup has too many veggies, no harm in adding more broth. If too much broth for your taste, try adding carrots or purple potatoes. I like to serve with a warm, seedy, crusty bread.

This lentil soup can easily become a vegetarian version by using a vegetable broth base and eliminating the sausage, and believe me it's just as good! It's hearty and filling and you really don't need to serve anything else with it, unless you have a weakness for warm, crusty bread with butter like I do. Making the Italian Sausage & Lentil soup is easy. Remove the casings from the Italian sausage, chop, and brown in a skillet on the stove along with onions and garlic. This extra step of caramelization gives an extra layer of flavor that is important.

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