Creamy Gnocchi & Chicken Sausage Soup with the Best Garlic Bread | Easy One-Pot Soup

heavy cream

🥗Healthier: Greek yogurt

💰Cheaper: milk + cornstarch

Greek yogurt reduces calories while maintaining creaminess

Italian sausage

🥗Healthier: turkey sausage

💰Cheaper: ground pork

Turkey sausage is leaner, while ground pork is often less expensive.

parmesan cheese

🥗Healthier: nutritional yeast

💰Cheaper: grated pecorino

Nutritional yeast is dairy-free, while pecorino can be more affordable.

Dice half a white onion.

Cut up some baby carrots or two medium carrots.

Slice one red medium pepper.

Turn heat to medium high and add olive oil.

Add sweet chicken Italian sausage (or pork, hot or sweet Italian sausage, ground beef, or ground turkey) and cook until fully brown, adding 1/2 teaspoon of salt.

Remove the sausage from the pan.

Turn heat to medium, add 2 tablespoons of butter and the diced onions, cooking until translucent.

Add in the carrots and bell peppers.

Imagined adding flour and cooking it down for a few minutes, then deglazing the pan with white wine (note: flour was forgotten).

Create a roux in a separate pan by cooking down flour with butter, then add it back into the soup.

Add the Italian sausage back in along with 6 cups of chicken broth, 1 cup of heavy cream, and Italian seasoning.

Add a parmesan rind to the soup.

Cover and simmer on medium for about 6 minutes.

Check for salt and seasonings.

Add in gnocchi from the fridge section of the store and washed baby kale (or spinach).

Cook for 4 minutes and take out the parmesan rind.

Combine butter, garlic powder, onion powder, dried parsley, red pepper flakes, and fresh garlic until the butter is soft to make garlic bread.

Use 2 medium loaves of bread or 1 large baguette, cutting slits but not all the way through.

Put butter in between the slits and brush garlic mixture on the outside.

Cook garlic bread at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for about 8 minutes until crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside.

Serve the soup topped with freshly grated parmesan cheese and fresh basil.

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