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White Bean Soup with Kale and Hot Turkey Sausage

When the weather starts to get colder outside, sometimes nothing else will do but a warm bowl of soup. This White Bean Soup with Kale and Hot Turkey Sausage is hearty, warm, and spicy – just the way I like it. The original recipe calls for Spanish chorizo but I couldn’t find chicken chorizo in my store (bummer) so I substituted hot turkey sausage. I cooked the sausage first before beginning and this soup came together pretty quickly. It wasn’t until I was almost finished making this soup that I realized it’s nearly identical to the Kale, Bean, and Sausage Soup with Parmesan Cheese I made last month. Since I devoured that soup and discovered I love kale, I knew this soup wouldn’t last long either.

The ingredients:

Sauté onion and garlic in a pan and cook until soft. Add in chopped sausage. (If using chorizo, add chorizo to the pan first and cook for a minute before adding onion and garlic.)

Warm broth in a microwave for 3 minutes and add to the pan with beans. Bring to a boil.

Stir in kale and black pepper and cook over medium heat for 6 minutes.

Additions: None

Omissions: None

Substitutions:

Hot turkey sausage for Spanish chorizo

Overall Rating: Love It

Source: Cooking Light Magazine

Kale, Bean, and Sausage Soup with Parmesan Cheese

The temperatures are dropping into the 40s this week which puts me in the mood for some warm soup! Kale, Bean, and Sausage Soup with Parmesan Cheese to be exact. The recipe actually calls for escarole but my grocery store didn’t have any so I used kale instead. Normally, the old me wouldn’t have even looked for escarole and would have automatically reached for spinach instead. But part of the point of this blog is to try new things and expand my palette so instead of taking the easy way out with spinach, I turned to kale, which I don’t think I’ve ever eaten before. A nutritious leafy green, kale wilts easily like spinach so it works well in soup like this. Mixed with sweet turkey sausage, fennel, and cannellini beans, this soup is satisfying and exactly what I want on a chilly evening.