Rachael Ray's Hungarian Sausage and Lentil Stoup
photo by Pierre Dance
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 15
- Serves:
-
6-8
ingredients
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1 1⁄2 lbs bulk hot Italian sausage
- 3 garlic cloves, chopped
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 2 portabella mushrooms, gills scraped out, chopped
- 1 cup carrot, shredded
- 1 cup lentils
- 1 large starchy potato, peeled and chopped
- salt and pepper
- 1 bay leaf
- 2 teaspoons smoked paprika (or substitute a mix of 2 teaspoons cumin, 1 teaspoon sweet paprika and 2 pinches cayenne pepper)
- 3 sprigs fresh rosemary, intact on stems
- 1 (14 ounce) can chopped fire-roasted tomatoes or (14 ounce) can regular diced tomatoes
- 6 cups chicken stock
- 1 (10 ounce) box frozen spinach, thawed and drained
directions
- In a medium sized pot, simmer lentils in chicken stock.
- In a second pot, sauté sausage in olive oil.
- Add garlic, onions and mushrooms to the sausage. Cook a few minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Add carrots, lentils, potato, salt and pepper, bay leaf, paprika (or substitute mixture) and rosemary to sausage pot. Don't worry about the woody rosemary stems - the leaves will fall off as it cooks.
- Add tomatoes to sausage pot. Bring to a good rolling boil and boil for 15 minutes.
- Combine the two pots.
- Wilt the greens in and remove the rosemary stems. Let sit 5 minutes off the heat before serving.
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Mother of two, urban pagan, hippie chick, herbalist and massage therapist, love to cook and love to eat. I just started Weight Watchers online as a result of the last two! But I'm committed to finding and creating GOOD TASTING healthy foods so I can eat better forever, not temporarily diet to lose weight.