Sausage Minestrone Soup

Heart Warming Food

Freezable

Batch cooking friendly

Flavours develop over time.

30 minute cooking time.

Ingredients
2 tablespoon olive oil
1 onion diced
3 cloves garlic
1 celery stalk diced
1 carrot diced
1 zucchini diced
2 boiled potatoes (peeled and diced)
5 cups vegetable stock
2 x 400g cans chopped tomatoes
2 cups shredded kale or silverbeet
400g white beans, drained & rinsed
½ cup gluten-free shell pasta
1 tray Cleaver’s Organic Sausage or any type of sausage (casing removed)
¼ cup fresh basil chopped
Salt & pepper to taste

Instructions
1. In a large pot, heat over medium to high heat.
2. Add onions, garlic, celery, carrot, zucchini and potatoes and cook, stirring vegetables until begin to soften - 5 minutes.
3. Add sausages and break them up as you’re frying them for about 5 - 8 minutes.
4. Stir in stock and simmer until vegetables and sausages are cooked for about 10 minutes.
5. Add kale or silverbeet, beans and pasta. Simmer until the pasta is tender – about 10 minutes.
6. Add basil. Season to taste. 

Supercharge with add-ons:
Broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, leek, brussel sprouts, watercress.
Crumble some goat’s cheese as a garnish to give it a creamier texture.

Yields 4
Energy:  464 kcal
Protein: 24g     Carbohydrate: 65g      Fat: 12g
Fibre: 11g