Simple Tuscan Soup

This recipe comes together quickly for a homemade weeknight meal that you don’t have to spend hours making.

It uses Nourished With Nature Pastured Pork + homemade chicken broth and a few other fresh ingredients that make it hardy, warm, nutrient dense and customizable to your diet preferences.

Serves 4, double it for lunch leftovers!

 

INGREDIENTS:

  • 1 lb Nourished With Nature Italian or Fresh Ground Pork Sausage

  • 1 Tbsp Nourished With Nature Pork Lard

  • 1 large onion (or 3 small if they are homegrown)

  • 1 head of garlic (or 8 cloves) pressed or diced

  • 2 Tbsp dried Italian Herbs (oregano, thyme, rosemary)

  • 4 medium size russet potatoes (can substitute cauliflower), peeled and diced into 1” chunks

  • 2 Quarts Chicken Broth made from Nourished With Nature pastured chickens (about 8 cups)

  • 1 bunch of fresh spinach (kale or chard also work), washed and chopped

 

INSTRUCTIONS:

  1. Over medium to high heat cook pork sausage with lard in large stock pot, browning then crumbling until it’s cooked all the way through.

  2. Add in onion and cook 1-2 minutes until translucent

  3. Add in garlic and dried herbs and cook until you can smell the garlic becoming fragrant

  4. Add in diced potatoes

  5. Add in broth and simmer until potatoes are cooked through (about 10 min)

  6. Turn off heat and add in chopped spinach, allowing to wilt

  7. Serve up into bowls and enjoy!

Cook pork sausage in a large stock pot over medium high heat, browning and crumbling

Cook pork sausage in a large stock pot over medium high heat, browning and crumbling

Dice up onion, garlic and herbs and add into sausage.

Dice up onion, garlic and herbs and add into sausage.

Cook onions and garlic with sausage until translucent and fragrant.

Cook onions and garlic with sausage until translucent and fragrant.

Add in your diced potatoes.

Add in your diced potatoes.

Add in chicken broth and simmer until potatoes are cooked through.  Turn off heat, add in spinach.

Add in chicken broth and simmer until potatoes are cooked through. Turn off heat, add in spinach.

Enjoy with a slice of crusty artisan bread or a side salad!

Enjoy with a slice of crusty artisan bread or a side salad!

What substitutions are you going to make?

Are you eating Paleo, following the Carnivore diet or eating gluten free?