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Sausage and Lentil Soup

Here's how you make Sausage and Lentil Soup
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  • Servings: 8
  • Prep: 20m
  • Cook: 90m
    • The following recipe serves 8 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 1 large carrot
  • 2 celery stalks
  • 1 large yellow onion
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • 1 to 2 tablespoons oil (olive oil)
  • 1 pound Italian Sausage (spicy, I used mild)
  • 8 cups chicken broth
  • 1 can (28 ounce) diced tomatoes (I used 2 14.5 ounce cans of diced tomatoes,1 was basil,garlic, and oregano & the other was green peppers & onion)
  • 2 cups dry lentils
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
  • 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
  • 1/2 teaspoon oregano
  • 1/2 teaspoon thyme
  • 1/2 teaspoon fennel seed (I used the same amount of fennel powder)
  • 1 bay leaf
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Dice the first four ingredients and sauté them in a large pot with the oil. Sauté until tender.

  • Step 2: Remove vegetables from the pan and add the Italian sausage, removed from the casing, to the pan. Brown then drain off fat.

  • Step 3: Pour 8 cups for chicken broth, add the vegetables back into the pot.

  • Step 4: Add tomatoes and lentils.

  • Step 5: Add remaining ingredients.

  • Step 6: Simmer until the lentils are tender, 30-45 minutes.

  • Step 7: Remove 1/3 of the soup and puree. then return it to the pot.

  • Step 8: Correct the seasonings and remove bay leaf.

We hope you enjoy this recipe!

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