Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, kale, sausage & leftover mashed potato soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Kale and Italian sausage are sauteed together and topped with Cheddar cheese in this quick, easy, flavorful dish that makes a perfect dinner or hearty breakfast. Add sausage, potatoes, kale, and mushrooms to the stockpot. Add half-and-half and season with salt and pepper.
Kale, Sausage & Leftover Mashed Potato Soup is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Kale, Sausage & Leftover Mashed Potato Soup is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook kale, sausage & leftover mashed potato soup using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Kale, Sausage & Leftover Mashed Potato Soup:
- Prepare 1 medium onion, chopped
- Take 1 large stem celery, chopped
- Make ready 3 medium carrots, cut into 1/4" thick discs (or however you like to chop carrots for soup)
- Take 4 cloves garlic, peeled and smashed
- Make ready 1/2 Tablespoon oil
- Prepare 1 bunch kale, washed well, stems removed, and rough chopped
- Take optional: 4 cups arugula or spinach (I just happened to have arugula that needed to get used up)
- Get 6 cups unsalted liquid (water or broth of choice)
- Get 1/2 Tablespoon salt
- Make ready 1 pound sausage, cut into bite sized pieces
- Get 4 tomatoes, chopped or one 15 oz. can diced tomatoes (I just happened to have fresh ones that were starting to get wrinkly…)
- Prepare 1 bay leaf
- Get 1 teaspoon oregano
- Take 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- Take 2 cups leftover mashed potatoes
Add broth, stirring and scraping up any brown bits from bottom of skillet. Add to the pan along with the spices and bay leaf. Squeeze a lemon over the top of the dish and serve. *If the kale overcrowds the pan, remove the potato sausage mixture and sauté the kale by itself before adding everything back to the skillet. The sausage and bacon in this creamy kale and sausage soup give it a wonderful savory flavor, while the potatoes add just a bit of healthy starchy carb content, the cream a touch of richness, and lemon juice adds a bright acidity that really lets the flavors sing.
Steps to make Kale, Sausage & Leftover Mashed Potato Soup:
- In a 4 to 5 quart pot, bring 1/2 Tablespoon oil up to medium heat and sweat onions, carrots, celery, and garlic until onions start to turn translucent. (About 3 minutes or so.)
- Add kale, arugula, liquid, salt, and cook, covered, for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Once kale has wilted, add tomatoes, sausage, bay, and oregano and cook, COVERED, for another 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Add mashed potatoes and cook COVERED again for another 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Before the last 10 minutes of cooking, adjust seasoning if needed.
- Enjoy! :)
If you have a household full of kale-haters, this soup is the PERFECT way to. Add sausage and cook, working to break into bite sized pieces, until lightly browned, about five minutes. With a slotted spoon, transfer the sausage to a plate, leaving any rendered fat in the pot. Add the remaining olive oil to the pot, increase the heat to medium-high, and add the onion. Stir in the kale and nutmeg.
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