Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, toscana soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Toscana Soup is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Toscana Soup is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
The variation in the potato size allows the thinly sliced potatoes to cook down and thicken the broth; a mix of hot and mild sausage gives the soup more "zip", and last, use low sodium chicken broth. Zuppa Toscana is a vegetable and bean soup made with kale, zucchini, cannellini beans, potatoes and tomatoes, plus celery, carrots and onion. Historically, most people in the Tuscan countryside would have used affordable seasonal vegetables and beans to make their Zuppa Toscana.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have toscana soup using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Toscana Soup:
- Make ready breakfast sausage links, chopped
- Take bacon (not precooked), chopped
- Get med onion, chopped
- Take garlic, minced
- Make ready Knorrs chicken stock base
- Prepare water
- Prepare large potatoes, cut into 1 inch cubes
- Get kale, stemmed and chopped
- Take heavy cream
- Get salt and pepper
It went bananas and has since been one of the most popular recipes on my site. It's a recipe that I make at least once a month and more like once a week during the winter. Zuppa Toscana Soup that's Even Better than Olive Garden's! This soup is a regular in my home, it's one of my families favorites!
Steps to make Toscana Soup:
- In a soup pot fry sausage till done, remove and set aside, drain grease.
- In the same pot fry bacon till crisp, remove, divide and set aside. Drain grease, keeping a few teaspoons in the pot.
- Add onions to the bacon grease and cook until translucent, add the garlic and cook an additional minute.
- Add chicken stock base*, water and potatoes.
- Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes or until potatoes are fully cooked.
- Add sausage, kale, half the bacon and the cream*.
- Simmer an additional 4 minutes or until desire doneness of kale.
- Salt and pepper to taste, serve topped with remaining crumbled bacon.
- When I add the stock base and cream I start with the minimum amount required and then taste and add or not to suite my own personal preference.
I love that it's so easy to make and it has such an incredible flavor thanks to those hearty bits of sausage. So, "zuppa" means soup in Italian. "Toscana" refers to the Tuscany region of Italy. Therefore, "Zuppa Toscana" translates to "Tuscan soup" or "Tuscan-style soup." Traditionally, this soup is made with lots of veggies, beans, potatoes, olive oil, spices, Italian bacon, and Tuscan bread (it kind of reminds me of a minestrone). Transfer to a paper towel-lined plate with a slotted spoon; set aside to drain. You don't have to venture out to your favorite Italian restaurant to get this classic, decadently satisfying sausage and potato soup.
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