Sausage Lentil Vegetable Soup

Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, sausage lentil vegetable soup. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. 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.

Sausage Lentil Vegetable Soup is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Sausage Lentil Vegetable Soup is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook sausage lentil vegetable soup using 16 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

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