Low Carb Zuppa Toscana Food

LOW CARB ZUPPA TOSCANA

Steps:

• Heat a large sauce pot or dutch oven over medium heat. Add the Italian sausage to the pot and begin to brown the meat, breaking it up as it cooks.
• When the meat is about halfway browned, add the bacon, onion, and garlic and continue cooking and stirring until the sausage is fully cooked through.
• Add the chicken broth and turnips and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to a simmer and cook for 10 minutes.
• Add the kale and continue cooking for 5 minutes or until kale and turnips are both tender.
• Remove from the heat and stir in the cream. Taste and add salt and pepper as needed.
• Serve immediately.

LOW-CARB ZUPPA TOSCANA

Steps:

• Cook the Italian sausage in a large pot over medium-high heat until browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes. Drain off grease and transfer sausage to a plate.
• Cook bacon to the same pot until crisp, 3 to 5 minutes. Remove and drain, leaving about 2 teaspoons of bacon grease in the pot. Add onion and garlic and cook until soft and translucent, about 5 minutes.
• Return sausage and bacon back into the pot; stir in chicken broth, water, and bouillon cube. Season with pepper and simmer over low heat for 20 minutes. Stir in cauliflower and simmer until almost tender, about 5 minutes. Add kale and half-and-half; simmer until kale is wilted, about 5 minutes. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese to serve.

OLIVE GARDEN LOW CARB ZUPPA TOSCANA SOUP

Steps:

• Fry bacon in a medium/large size skillet; drain fat, put on plate and let cool.
• In the same skillet cook the sausage and set aside ( I put it on the back burner).
• In a large soup/stew pan put cook onions until tender and clear.
• Add in garlic and cook for a minute.
• Add water and chicken boullion cubes.
• Start to tear the bacon into bite size pieces and add to the pot.
• Add sausage.
• Add cauliflower.
• Cook for 15 minutes (until cauliflower is soft).
• Add heavy cream.
• Add kale (I tear mine into bite size pieces).
• Simmer for 5-10 minutes.

LOW CARB ZUPPA TOSCANO

Steps:

• Take the sausage out of it's casing and crumble in a pan with diced onion and minced garlic.
• Cook until sausage is brown and done.
• Drain off fat, if any.
• Put chicken broth, spinach, browned sausage mixture, salt, pepper and red pepper flakes in a pot and simmer for 30 minutes.
• After simmer time, add the heavy cream and simmer for another 10 minutes, or until everything is nice and hot.
• Serve and enjoy.