Mixed Greens And Sausage Soup With Cornmeal Dumplings Food

MIXED-GREENS AND SAUSAGE SOUP WITH CORNMEAL DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• For dumplings:
• Line rimmed baking sheet with plastic wrap. Whisk first 5 ingredients in medium bowl. Stir in milk and butter, then green onions. Let stand at least 1 hour and up to 2 hours. Using wet hands, shape mixture, 1 tablespoon at a time, into 18 dumplings, arranging on sheet. DO AHEAD: Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover; chill.
• For soup:
• Heat oil in large pot over medium heat. Add onion, garlic, bay leaves, and thyme. Sauté until onion is tender, about 5 minutes. Add sausage; sauté until fat renders, 3 to 4 minutes. Add broth, tomatoes with juice, hot sauce, and allspice; bring to simmer, stirring occasionally. DO AHEAD: Can be made 1 day ahead. Chill uncovered until cold, then cover and keep chilled. Return to simmer before continuing.
• Add greens to simmering soup. Cook greens uncovered 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Drop in dumplings. Cover; reduce heat to low. Simmer until dumplings are tender and cooked through, 20 to 25 minutes. Season soup with salt and pepper. Ladle soup and dumplings into bowl.

SAUSAGE AND GREENS SOUP

Steps:

• Cut sausage into bite-size pieces,and cook over the stove in a medium-sized pot over medium-high heat for about 5 minutes.
• Sprinkle with salt, pepper and cajun seasoning to taste.
• Add chicken broth, and bring to a boil.
• Add diced tomatoes, simmer for about 3 minutes.
• Add greens, and cook over medium-low heat until tender.
• add beans, and cook until heated through.

SAUSAGE VEGETABLE SOUP WITH DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Put the 4 cups of water, the V8 juice and the vegetable broth into a medium sized pot.
• Crumble the uncooked sausage into small pieces and add to pot.
• Add the potatoes, carrots, onion, cabbage, and red peppers and the salt, pepper and chili powder to the pot.
• Press the pizza dough as flat as possible then cut into small pieces about 1 x 2 inches, which will become the dumplings.
• Sprinkle the flour on the dumplings and set aside.
• When the vegetables are almost tender add the dumplings and flour into the soup and simmer for about 10 more minutes.
• Season with more salt and pepper if needed.

SAUSAGE & GREENS SOUP

Steps:

• In a 6-qt. stockpot, heat oil over medium-high heat. Add sausage, onion, celery and carrot; cook 6-8 minutes or until sausage is no longer pink and vegetables are tender, breaking up sausage into crumbles. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer., Stir in Swiss chard, tomatoes, bay leaf and seasonings. Add broth; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, covered, 10-12 minutes or until Swiss chard is tender. Stir in beans and lemon juice; heat through. Remove bay leaf.

SIMMERED GREENS WITH CORNMEAL DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Score bacon 2 or 3 times (do not cut all the way through), then simmer in water in a wide 6-quart pot, covered, 1 hour.
• Discard any coarse stems from greens and coarsely chop leaves.
• Add greens, 2 1/2 teaspoons salt, and 1 teaspoon pepper to bacon and cook, uncovered, stirring occasionally, 25 minutes.
• Meanwhile, whisk together flour, cornmeal, brown sugar, baking powder, and 1/4 teaspoon salt, then blend in butter well with your fingertips. Stir in milk until just combined. Let dough stand 5 minutes.
• With wet hands, roll rounded tablespoons of dough into balls.
• Gently place dumplings on top of greens. Cook, covered and undisturbed, over low heat until greens are very tender and silky and dumplings are puffed and cooked through, about 20 minutes. Discard bacon. Season with salt and pepper.