Smoked Sausage Stew

Submitted by Molly53

"Not all stews need to be time-consuming to prepare. A nontraditional stew with chunks of smoked sausage, both cooks and develops its flavor quickly. This is also the kind of recipe that can be prepared without bringing a load of groceries home. Most of the ingredients are pantry shelf staples and everyday vegetables."

 

• Ready In: 45mins
• Ingredients: 12
• Serves: 4-6

ingredients

• 6 carrots, peeled and julienned
• 2 medium onions, peeled and quartered
• 1 1⁄2 cups celery (diced or sliced)
• 1 (10 1/2 ounce) can beef broth or (10 1/2 ounce) can beef consomme
• 1 cup water
• 1 bay leaf
• 1⁄8 teaspoon pepper
• 2 potatoes, peeled and diced
• 1 tablespoon flour
• 1 lb smoked sausage, cut into 1-inch pieces
• salt, to taste
• parmesan cheese, grated

directions

1. Place vegetables in a saucepan with consomme or broth, water, bay leaf and pepper.
2. Heat to boil; reduce heat, cover and simmer for ten minutes.
3. Add potatoes; cook ten minutes longer or until vegetables are tender.
4. Remove bay leaf.
5. Mix small amount of liquid with flour to make a paste; stir into vegetables.
6. Add sausage.
7. Cook, stirring occasionally until sausage is hot and liquid is thickened.
8. Add salt to taste.
9. Top each serving with Parmesan cheese.

Reviews

[runningwild69]

This turned out great, even though I had to make a couple of adjustments. I didn't have beef broth so used 2 packets of beef flavoring from ramen noodles (really) & water. Didn't have bay leaf so used fresh thyme. Added small can of mushrooms. All that and still tasted great and was super easy. Potaotes took 30 minutes to cook.