Tuscan Soup

KelBel's Note:

This tastes like the Tuscan soup you can get at the Olive Garden. My husband says its a keeper.

• Total Time: 45 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• 6 cups chicken broth
• 1 onion, chopped
• 3 (3 1/2 ounce) hot Italian sausages
• 3 large potatoes, cubed
• 6 -8 ounces fresh spinach, washed, chopped, tough stems removed
• 1/4 cup evaporated milk
• salt and pepper

Directions:

1. Remove skin from sausage and crumble into frying pan.
2. Add chopped onion, and cook over medium heat until meat is no longer pink.
3. Place meat in a large stock pot; add stock and potatoes.
4. Boil until potato is cooked, about 10 minutes Add spinach.
5. Continue boiling until spinach is lightly cooked, about 5 minutes.
6. Remove soup from heat, stir in evaporated milk, and season to taste with salt and pepper.

Reviews

[Chef #1404231]

Followed the recipe note for note and liked the result. I might have over seasoned with pepper a bit because they Soup did have a bit of heat to it. Like others I will try mild sausage next time and will see how that strikes me. Either way this is a good soup and worth tinkering with.

[Red in US]

This soup was okay but missing something. One reviewer suggested maybe it was because she used mild sausage but I used fresh homemade hot italian sausage and it was still missing something.

[annlouise]

It was ok, but like one reviewer said, it seemed to need something else. I followed the recipe exactly, except for substituting cream for the milk. I also only had mild sausages, because we don't like the hot stuff. Perhaps the spicy sausage is the "oomph" that I missed? Still, it is an easy and relatively quick soup.