Tuscan Potato Soup - Easy to Make Vegetarian!

Name: Tuscan Potato Soup - Easy to Make Vegetarian!
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 8 serving(s)
Ingredients: 1 lb hot Italian sausages (vegetarians use sausage-flavored meat substiture like "Gimme Lean") or 1 lb vegetarian sausage, casing removed (vegetarians use sausage-flavored meat substiture like "Gimme Lean"); 1 large onion, thinly sliced; 1 lb red potatoes, well scrubbed and cut into 1/2 inch chunks; 6 garlic cloves, crushed; 6 cups vegetable broth; 2 cups kale, cleaned and roughly chopped; 2 cups whole milk (skim or soy may be used); 1 tablespoon red pepper flakes (optional); salt and pepper, to taste

Submitted by merron-iru kami

"A hearty, rich soup full of potatoes, greens and garlic! It's easy enough for a beginner cook!"

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Ready In:: 1hr
Ingredients:: 9
Serves:: 8

ingredients

1 lb hot Italian sausages (vegetarians use sausage-flavored meat substiture like "Gimme Lean") or 1 lb vegetarian sausage, casing removed (vegetarians use sausage-flavored meat substiture like "Gimme Lean")
1 large onion, thinly sliced
1 lb red potatoes, well scrubbed and cut into 1/2 inch chunks
6 garlic cloves, crushed
6 cups vegetable broth
2 cups kale, cleaned and roughly chopped
2 cups whole milk (skim or soy may be used)
1 tablespoon red pepper flakes (optional)
salt and pepper, to taste

directions

Brown the sausage in the bottom of a large stock pot, breaking it up with a utensil as you go.
Once meat is no longer pink, add onions and continue to saute until they are translucent (if using meat substitute, you may wish to add a few teaspoons of olive oil to prevent sticking).
Add potatoes and garlic to the pot and stir to incorporate them. Once garlic becomes fragrant, add the vegetable stock and red pepper (if using) and bring to a boil.
Once potatoes are tender, add chopped kale and cover the pot. Once the kale has wilted, remove the pot from heat, add milk and season with salt and pepper.
For Vegetarian use only the Vegetarian sausage. Note they do not have casings.

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merron-iru kami

<img src="http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/susied214/permanent%20collection/adoptedspring08.jpg"> Pescetarian, lovin' the hippie-eats, learned to cook authentic Japanese fare in Kyoto! Okay, I figured I should add a bit to the above, so here goes: I'm a on-air personality on a radio station in the city where I live. My girlfriend and I recently bought an art gallery and are in the midst of remodelling the lofts above it for a living space. My girlfriend and I travel frequently - we just got back from a three week trip to Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil - and I love to pick up recipes as I go. We've been vegetarian (although we eat fish) for about a year and a half and I absolutely love it. We eat tons of fresh veggies and fruit and pasta and grains and a moderate amount of fish...and I can't imagine ever craving meat in my diet again! My family are a very meat-and-potatoes type of mid-western, so they are absolutely baffled by this. I think they must imagine what goes on their dinner-plates (Steak, a few pieces of broccoli, a baked potato) and wonder how we can survive on what's left after you remove the meat. Luckily, I'm a pretty good cook - no, make that a very daring cook! No fear! - and my girlfriend is kind of human garbage disposal. Seriously, she's never met an obscure ethnic dish she didn't like. So, that's it for now.

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