Italian sausage and pepper soup contains lots of fresh vegetable flavor along with deep Italian herbs and spices.
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Italian
Keyword: peppers, sausage, soup, spicy
Ingredients
1poundspicy Italian rope sausagecasing removed
1small yellow oniondiced
4bell peppersget a variety of colors, cut into bite-sized pieces
6-8clovesgarlicminced
2, 14.5-ouncecans Italian style diced tomatoes
6ouncestomato paste
8cupschicken broth
salt and pepper to taste
1/2cupfresh basilroughly chopped, or 2 teaspoons dried basil
1/4cupfresh parsleyroughly chopped, or 2 teaspoons dried parsley
2teaspoonsdried oregano
Instructions
Heat a large stock pot over medium-high heat. Saute the sausage in the pan, breaking it apart as it browns, and add the onions as well. Stirring regularly.
Once the sausage is cooked through, add the peppers and cook to your desired tenderness, continuing to stir often. Add the garlic and cook for an additional two minutes.
Add the diced tomatoes, tomato paste and broth, and scrape the bottom of the pan to loosen any cooked-on bits.
Bring the soup to a low boil. Add the salt and pepper, basil and parsley and allow to boil for about 10 to 15 minutes.