Sausage Recipe ✶ Portuguese Sausage Soup

This is an easy and fun soup to make that is full of flavor from Portuguese linguica sausage. It's delicious served with warm, crusty bread!

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 3 medium Yukon Gold potatoes, diced
• 1 large sweet onion, chopped
• ½ cup diced carrots
• ½ cup diced celery
• 3 cloves garlic, chopped
• salt and ground black pepper to taste
• ¼ teaspoon red pepper flakes, or more to taste
• 1 bunch kale, stems removed and leaves chopped
• 2 bay leaves
• 5 cups chicken broth
• ½ pound linguica sausage, diced
• ½ pound chorizo sausage, diced
• 1 (14 ounce) can diced tomatoes
• 1 (14 ounce) can garbanzo beans, with liquid

Cooking Directions

1. Heat oil in a soup pot over medium heat until it sizzles, about 1 minute. Add potatoes, onion, carrots, and celery. Cook and stir for 3 to 4 minutes. Add garlic, salt, pepper, and red pepper flakes. Stir for another 2 to 3 minutes.
2. Add kale and bay leaves to the pot. Cover and let kale wilt for 2 to 3 minutes.
3. Add chicken broth, linguica, chorizo, tomatoes, and garbanzo beans with their juices to the pot and bring to a boil, about 5 minutes. Reduce heat to medium and simmer until veggies are tender, about 15 minutes more.

Nutrition Facts

• calories447.5
• carbohydrateContent31.7 g
• cholesterolContent53.7 mg
• fatContent26.6 g
• fiberContent5.2 g
• proteinContent20.5 g
• saturatedFatContent8.8 g
• sodiumContent1713.2 mg
• sugarContent3.3 g