Lentil Soup With Italian Sausage Copycat Cucina Cucina Food

SAUSAGE LENTIL SOUP

Steps:

• In a large 5-quart (or larger) sauce pot, pour the olive oil in the pot. Then place the ground Italian sausage. Cook on medium-heat breaking up the meat with a wooden spoon. Mix, and continue to break up for 5 minutes.
• Next, add in the garlic and diced onion. Mix into the meat mixture and reduce the heat to medium-low. While the meat mixture is cooking, dice the celery, peel and dice the carrots, and dice the zucchini. Place the vegetables in the soup pot. Mix well then add in the diced tomatoes, lentils, and spices. Mix well then pour in the chicken stock (mixing one last time).
• Bring the soup to a boil (about 5-10 minutes), then reduce to a simmer. Simmer for 1 hour or until lentils are tender. Make sure you mix every 10-15 minutes to prevent lentils from sticking to the bottom of the pot.
• Once the soup is cooked, ladle the soup into bowl, and sprinkle with Parmesan if desired. Enjoy!

LENTIL SOUP WITH ITALIAN SAUSAGE AND ESCAROLE

Steps:

• Simmer lentils, water, broth, bay leaf, and half of garlic in a 4-quart pot, uncovered, 12 minutes.
• Meanwhile, heat oil in a wide heavy 5- to 6-quart pot over medium-high heat until it shimmers. Brown sausage, about 7 minutes. Transfer sausage with a slotted spoon to a bowl.
• Reduce heat to medium and cook onion, carrots, celery, remaining garlic, 1 teaspoon salt, and 1/2 teaspoon pepper, stirring occasionally, until softened, about 5 minutes. Stir in tomato paste and cook, stirring, 2 minutes. Add sausage and lentils with cooking liquid and simmer, uncovered, until lentils are tender, 3 to 5 minutes.
• Stir in escarole and cook until tender, about 3 minutes. Stir in vinegar to taste and season with salt and pepper. Discard bay leaf.

ITALIAN SAUSAGE LENTIL SOUP

Steps:

• Place onion, celery, garlic and carrots in food processor and pulse until finely chopped.
• Saute the veggies in 2 tablespoons of olive oil.
• Remove sausage from casings and crumble.
• Add sausage to vegetables and saute until no longer pink.
• Rinse lentils and add to pot.
• Add broth, water and seasonings and bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat to a simmer and cook for 1 hour, stirring often.
• If soup becomes too thick, add more broth.
• Taste and adjust seasonings with salt and pepper.
• When done, drizzle with olive oil, stir and serve.

LENTIL SOUP WITH ITALIAN SAUSAGE, COPYCAT , CUCINA CUCINA

Steps:

• Brown bulk, chicken Italian sausage in olive oil and butter in soup pot. Stirring to encourage the meat to be as fine as possible. When brown, remove sausage with slotted spoon, set aside. Reserving juices in the soup pot.
• To the juices in the soup pot, add diced carrots, onions, celery and leeks. Cook over medium high heat until tender, adding more butter if needed.
• Add lentils and broth. Bring to boil, stirring occasionally to prevent lentils from sticking. When this comes to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer 40 to 45 minutes.
• When lentils are tender, add sausage back to vegetables in the pot. Add cream, mustard, vinegar and spinach.
• Season to taste with salt and pepper.
• Return soup to the boil, then reduce heat to simmer for 5 minutes.
• Serve hot with freshly grated parmesan cheese on top.