Bertuccis Sausage Soup

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Bertucci's Sausage Soup

This recipe was in the Washington Post probably about a decade ago --we have made it for years and if you follow the amounts below it makes about 1 gallon of soup!! That amount was fine when I had hungry teenagers at home along with their friends but with only a party of two I halved it tonight and we still will have leftover lunches for the week. I also have lightened it up with brown rice and I guess I need to give a huge shout-out to Trader Joes as most of the ingreds were from them!!




  1  small  onion -- diced
  8 small  Italian sausage -- remove skin,small pieces (see only 5 sausage in the package)
  14 cups  chicken broth -(only used 6-7 cups - a full box and a leftover half box)
  2 cups  white rice (love the convenience of TJs precooked Brown Rice-used the whole pkg)
  2 cans  chunky italian tomatoes -do not drain (used a 28 oz can)
 1/4 pound  spinach -- (1 pkg) torn up (6oz pkg)
 2/3 cup  fresh mozarella (oops how good is your eyesight -no fresh moz so used ricotta --it was a great substitution)

Break up sausages into 1/2 inch pieces and put them into a large soup pot along with the diced onion.
***OK so I just squeezed out small pieces out of the casing into the  pan --its been since last year since I" made this and next time will do true 1/2" pieces as these were more like 1" size! ***

   Saute the sausage and onion (do not add oil or butter) over low heat until the sausage pieces are golden.  Be careful not to burn the onion.

Add the stock and bring to a simmer. (alright so I brought it to a boil then lowered to simmer)

  Add tomatoes.













Then add rice and continue simmering until rice cooked about 15 min


   Add the spinach  and cook a few more minutes.
 
Add salt and pepper to taste. (mine needed no additional seasoning)

Garnish each bowl of sausage soup with a tablespoon of shredded mozarella prior to serving.
***OR Ricotta --it was a great substitution and it added a creamy element to the soup) ***

Makes about 1 gallon. (or not if you halve it!!)
                 



Comments

  1. KathrynNovember 2, 2010 at 3:58 PM

    oh my gosh, mom. that almost looks like a SOUP instead of your usual STOUP! Impressive. i want to make this one this week for sure!

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