Sicilian Sausage Soup

Sicilian sausage soup is one of the most flavorful starters you can ever taste. The smoky taste of sausages mingled with beans and a creamy soup can be an irresistible appetizer for just about anyone.

You can serve it at one of your parties and let your friends and family experience your wonderful cooking.

Its ingredients are quite filling. It can serve about 8 people.

Let’s have a look at how this appetizing soup is prepared.

Health Benefits

Sicilian sausage soup is a relatively healthy soup due to the presence of both sausages and beans into it. Both these ingredients are used for a healthy calorie less diet. If you want to maintain or reduce your weight this soup can be your choice of meal.

Enjoy this tasty treat without worrying about any extra calories!

Ingredients

diced celery: 3-4

diced carrots: 2

diced small onion: 1

minced garlic cloves: 3-4

diced chicken sausages: 5-6

cannellini beans: 2 cans

Chicken stock: 4 cups

tomato sauce: 1 cup

Italian seasoning: 1 tbsp

salt to taste

Freshly ground black pepper to taste

olive oil: 2-3 tsp

red pepper flakes to taste

chopped fresh parsley leaves: 1 cup

How To Make Sicilian Sausage Soup

1. Heat up some olive oil in a deep pan.
2. Add diced sausages, diced celery, diced carrots, diced onion and minced garlic into the pan.
3. Stir everything well so that the oil can stick to all the ingredients.
4. Let it cook for a minimum of 10 minutes on low heat. Make sure none of the ingredients get burnt.
5. Now add tomato paste into the pan.
6. Mix it well with all the vegetables and sausages.
7. Add cannellini beans into the pan.
8. Pour chicken stock into the pan after mixing the beans.
9. Add Italian seasoning after the stock and mix it thoroughly into the pan.
10. Season the soup with salt and pepper after that.
11. Let it simmer for about 20 minutes on low-medium flame.
12. Once, the soup turns a slight red color you can sure that it’s finally cooked.
13. Ladle out a big bowl of soup.
14. Garnish it with chopped fresh parsley leaves and red pepper flakes.
15. Serve hot!

Trivia

• The origin of sausages can be dated back to 2700 years ago due to its mention in the Odyssey that was written by Homer.

During World War II, sausages were called bangers because they exploded when fried.