Zuppa Tuscana Or Tuscan Soup Italian Sausge Peasant Soup Food

ITALIAN PEASANT SOUP

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven, cook sausage and onions over medium heat until no longer pink. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer. Drain. Add chicken; cook and stir until no longer pink. , Stir in the beans, broth, tomatoes, basil and oregano. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 10 minutes. Add the spinach and heat just until wilted. Serve with cheese if desired.

COPYCAT ZUPPA TOSCANA

Steps:

• Cook the bacon in a large Dutch oven over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally, until crisp, about 6 minutes. Transfer to a paper towel-lined plate with a slotted spoon; set aside to drain. Add the Italian sausage to the drippings and cook, breaking it up with a wooden spoon, until browned and no longer pink, about 6 minutes. Transfer to the paper towel-lined plate to drain.
• Add the potatoes, garlic and onion to the drippings and cook, stirring occasionally, until slightly softened, 6 to 8 minutes. Season with the crushed red pepper flakes and salt and pepper. Add the chicken broth, increase the heat to high and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer until the potatoes are tender and cooked through, 12 to 15 minutes.
• Add the kale, heavy cream, bacon and sausage and cook over medium heat until the kale is tender, another 5 minutes. Stir in the vinegar just before serving.

SUPER-DELICIOUS ZUPPA TOSCANA

Steps:

• Cook the Italian sausage and red pepper flakes in a Dutch oven over medium-high heat until crumbly, browned, and no longer pink, 10 to 15 minutes. Drain and set aside.
• Cook the bacon in the same Dutch oven over medium heat until crisp, about 10 minutes. Drain, leaving a few tablespoons of drippings with the bacon in the bottom of the Dutch oven. Stir in the onions and garlic; cook until onions are soft and translucent, about 5 minutes.
• Pour the chicken broth into the Dutch oven with the bacon and onion mixture; bring to a boil over high heat. Add the potatoes, and boil until fork tender, about 20 minutes. Reduce the heat to medium and stir in the heavy cream and the cooked sausage; heat through. Mix the spinach into the soup just before serving.

ZUPPA TOSCANA (TUSCAN SOUP) MY WAY

Steps:

• Break apart and cook sausage over low-medium heat in a stock pot until no longer pink.
• Drain fat, if any.
• Add the garlic and stir for about 30 seconds. (You want the garlic to get nice and not, but not to burn.).
• Add chicken stock, sliced potatoes and chicken base and bring soup to a boil.
• Lower heat to a brisk simmer and cook just until potatoes are starting to get tender.
• Add the sliced bok choy (the pieces that are mostly stems) and continue cooking for about five minutes.
• Add the rest of the bok choy (the pieces that are mostly leafy) and cook for another two to three minutes.
• Add the half and half, stir and continue cooking until the soup begins to steam, but don't let it boil.
• Taste for seasoning and add freshly ground black pepper to taste. (It usually doesn't need salt.).

ZUPPA TOSCANA SOUP

Steps:

• Combine the stock and cream in a saucepan over medium heat.
• Slice the unpeeled potato into 1/4-inch slices, then quarter the slices and add them to the soup.
• Add the kale.
• Grill or sauté the sausage. When cooked and cooled, cut the sausage in an angle about 1/2-inch thick. Add the sausage to the soup.
• Add the spices and let the soup simmer for about 2 hours. Stir occasionally.

ZUPPA TUSCANA OR TUSCAN SOUP (ITALIAN SAUSGE PEASANT SOUP

Steps:

• To make the chicken broth, put 10 pounds of chicken legs in a large pot (bigger than a dutch oven - at least 32 cups). Fill with water. After washing celery, trim and put the trimmings in with the chicken.
• Once chicken is just barely cooked, remove from the pot and pull the chicken off the bone reserving for another use (I make chicken salad with it. Goes great with soup.) Return skin and bones to the pot and allow to cook until the broth tastes very chickeny. At least two to three hours.
• Strain broth of bones.
• At this point, I allow the broth to sit overnight in the fridge and then skim off all fat the next morning. You can skim fat without allowing it to sit, if you prefer.
• In a medium frying pan, sautee garlic in olive oil under it begin turns a tan color but do not allow to burn or get too dark or it will turn bitter. Add sausage and cook until browned.
• Add sausage mixture and all remaining ingredietns to the broth in the soup pot, except potatoes and spinach.
• Season to taste with salt and pepper.
• Simmer in the broth until the carrots are just tender enough to easily pierce with a fork, about twenty minutes.
• Add potatoes and cook until tender.
• Remove from heat and add spinach.
• Serve with parmesan or asiago cheese.

TUSCAN POTATO SOUP (ZUPPA TOSCANA)

Steps:

• In a large stock pot combine the water, chicken broth, salt, and potatoes and set to a low boil.
• In a separate pan fry up the bacon until slightly crispy and set aside; save the bacon grease.
• In the same pan used to cook the bacon add the Italian sausage, onion, and olive oil and simmer on low until the sausage is browned and the consistency of hamburger.
• Chop the bacon into small shreds (use a specialty mincer or food processor to save time) and add to the cooked sausage, then add everything into the soup pot.
• Mix the garlic, powders, and half-and-half into the soup pot and simmer, covered, for 30 minutes.
• 5 Minutes before serving mix in the chopped kale leaves.

ETRUSCAN PEASANT SOUP

Steps:

• In a large sauacepan or dutch oven over medium heat cook sausage, chicken, onion, and garlic in oil until sausage is no longer pink.
• Add spinach, beans, tomatoes (with their liquid), broth, and crushed red pepper flakes - bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat - simmer 20 minutes (or longer!) to blend flavors.
• Sprinkle individual servings with cheese.
• PS - sometimes I like to use hot turkey sausage, it really kicks it up!

ZUPPA DI SALSICCIA ITALIANA (ITALIAN SAUSAGE SOUP)

Steps:

• 1. Shape sausage into 1-inch meatballs and place into the soup pot. Cover and cook on medium-low heat until 170 ℉ in the middle of largest meatball.
• 2. Prepare garlic, onion, and shallot, and 32 oz. of seasoned chicken broth. I prefer the decreased sodium paste over the dry cubed variety.
• 3. When the sausage balls are cooked through empty all except 1/8 inch of the pork fat and then add the broth, onions, garlic, and shallots.
• 4. Prepare rosemary, cayenne pepper, black pepper, oregano, celery seed, and basil. To release the flavors grind with a mortar and pestle, or rub briskly between the palms over the soup pot as they are added to the soup pot before the broth heats up to prevent burning yourself.
• 5. Place lid on the pot. Turn the heat up to medium.
• 6. Wash the red potatoes and remove any eyes. Peel the potatoes and quarter them lengthwise. Once quartered, cut into one-inch wideths. Add the cubed potatoes to the pot.
• 7. Cover and heat approximately 60 to 90 minutes, or until the potatoes are can be pierced with a fork and the soup is aromatic of the spices.
• 9. Remove soup from hot burner, and add the Kale to the soup and stir. It will soften and go limp quickly. Ladle out immediately and serve.
• 8. Add the Half & Half to the soup and heat for 10-minutes or so as you gently wash, thoroughly rinse, and shake dry the baby Kale.
• 9. Remove the soup pot from the hot burner. Add the Kale to the soup and stir approximately one minute or until the kale goes limp.
• 10. Ladle out immediately and serve.