Sausage and White Bean Soup with Chef Scott Peacock

Italian sausage

🥗Healthier: turkey sausage

💰Cheaper: ground pork

Turkey sausage is lower in fat, while ground pork is often cheaper.

parmesan cheese

🥗Healthier: nutritional yeast

💰Cheaper: grated pecorino

Nutritional yeast offers a cheesy flavor with fewer calories.

Soak 1 pound of dried white beans overnight.

In a pot, add the soaked beans, 8 cups of light broth, and a good pinch of salt; bring to a simmer.

Add chopped onion and a good pinch of salt; cook until soft.

Add chopped celery and carrots; season with a good pinch of dried thyme and more salt.

Add crushed and drained canned tomatoes to the pot.

Stir the softened vegetables into the beans.

Cut 1 pound of Kielbasa sausage into roughly half-inch wheels and brown them quickly in the pot.

Add the browned sausage to the beans.

Blanch a big bunch of kale in salted water, cool it, squeeze out the water, and chop it up; add to the pot.

Simmer everything together for about 10 minutes.

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