Easy Tuscan Soup

Easy Tuscan Soup

Ingredients

  • 1 pound Italian sausage
  • ½ onion, finely chopped

  • ½ teaspoon garlic minced

  • 1 cup dry white wine

  • 4 medium Yukon gold potatoes, diced

  • 8 cups chicken broth

  • 2 teaspoons salt

  • 2 teaspoons pepper

  • 1 Tablespoon Italian seasoning
  • 2 cups sliced mushrooms
  • 4 cups roughly chopped kale
  • 3/4 cups heavy whipping cream
  • 2 teaspoons red pepper flakes

Directions

  1. Cook the sausage in a large stock pot until browned.
  2. Remove the sausage from the pot and then cook the onions in the grease from the sausage.  Cook until translucent.
  3. Add the garlic and cook for 1-2 more minutes.
  4. Add the wine to deglaze the pan, simmer for 5 minutes.
  5. Add the chicken stock and the potatoes and bring to a boil.  Cook until potatoes soften approximately 15 minutes.
  6. Add the salt, pepper, Italian seasoning mushrooms and sausage.  Cook for 5 minutes.
  7. Add the kale and stir until the kale wilts.
  8. Add cream and stir to combine.
  9. Ladle to soup bowls and then top with Parmesan and a sprinkle of red pepper flakes.