How To Make Homemade Zuppa Toscana
This creamy Zuppa Toscana is an adapted Olive Garden Soup made with sausage, bacon, and potatoes tossed in a deliciously creamy broth.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 1tbspolive oil
- 1lbmild Italian sausage,casings removed
- 4ozbacon,diced
- 1onion,large, chopped
- 6garlic cloves,minced
- ½cupdry white wine,optional
- 4½cupschicken broth,low-sodium
- 5Russet potatoes,scrubbed, rinsed, and sliced into ¼-inch slices
- 1beef bouillon,cube, crushed
- ½tspsalt
- ¼tspblack pepper,cracked
- 1tspfennel,ground
- 1tspred chili flakes,optional, adjust to your taste
- 1½cupshalf and half,or heavy thickened cream
- 3cupskale,chopped, hard stems removed, substitute with baby spinach leaves or Swiss chard
- parmesan cheese,fresh shredded, for serving
- 1tbspcornstarch,optional, for a thicker soup
Instructions
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Fry the sausage in a heavy-based pot or Dutch oven over medium-high heat while breaking up the meat with the end of your wooden spoon.
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When browned and cooked through for about 10 minutes, drain most of the oil, leaving about 1 teaspoon of drippings in the pot. Transfer sausage meat to a plate.
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Cook the bacon in the same pot or Dutch oven over medium heat until crispy for about 10 minutes. Drain, leaving about 2 teaspoons of drippings in the pot. Transfer cooked bacon to the plate with the sausage meat.
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Sauté onions in the pot and cook until soft and translucent for about 5 minutes. Add the garlic and cook for 1 minute, until fragrant.
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Increase heat to high, pour in the chicken broth, and bring to a boil. Season broth with crushed bouillon, salt, pepper, fennel, and chili flakes. Add the potatoes and boil until fork tender for about 10 minutes.
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Reduce heat to medium. Stir in the heavy cream, cooked sausage, bacon, and kale.
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Let simmer for 2 minutes, until kale leaves have softened.
Nutrition
- Calories: 531.97kcal
- Fat: 32.28g
- Saturated Fat: 12.31g
- Trans Fat: 0.02g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 14.19g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 3.98g
- Carbohydrates: 39.18g
- Fiber: 2.62g
- Sugar: 6.17g
- Protein: 19.13g
- Cholesterol: 73.29mg
- Sodium: 1079.58mg
- Calcium: 104.74mg
- Potassium: 1118.51mg
- Iron: 2.69mg
- Vitamin A: 81.74µg
- Vitamin C: 19.80mg
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