SAUSAGE AND TOMATO SOUP
This Mediterranean inspired, chunky Sausage and Tomato Soup with potatoes and white beans is super hearty and delicious.
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 onion finely chopped
- 8 good quality pork sausages or 500g / 17.64oz sausage meat
- 2 garlic cloves crushed
- 2 tablespoons flour see notes for GF
- 1 tablespoon sweet smoked paprika
- 2 x 400g tin chopped tomatoes
- 1 ltr hot chicken stock
- 1 teaspoon white sugar
- 600 g white potatoes peeled and diced ½ inch
- 1 slightly heaped teaspoon dried oregano
- 400 g haricot beans (navy) drained
- Few handfuls of spinach optional
- Black pepper to taste (salt not needed, sausages are salty enough)
TO SERVE
- Toasted bread like sourdough
See notes for baby & toddler
Instructions
- Heat the oil in a large saucepan over a medium-high heat. If you are using whole sausages, snip open each sausage lengthways and remove the casing. Break up the sausages or sausage meat with your fingers as you add it into the pan.
- Add the onions and fry, stirring often for 10 minutes. Use your spoon to break the meat up into little chunks as you go, until golden and onions are softened. Once done, drain any excess fat off.
- Return the pan to the heat and turn to low. Add the garlic, flour and paprika and fry for 1 minute, stirring.
- Add in the tomatoes and stir in well. Then add the stock slowly, stirring all the time. Turn the heat to high and add in the potatoes, sugar and black pepper and bring to the boil. Then cover, turn heat to low and simmer for 15 minutes.
- Add in the oregano and haricot (navy) beans, stir in and bring back to the boil. Cover, reduce heat to low and simmer for a further 5 minutes. Then stir through the spinach (if using) and leave for a minute or so to wilt.
Notes
GO GLUTEN-FREE switch flour for cornflour / cornstarch.
Baby & Toddler
Because of the sausage that’s broken down into small pieces, this is only suitable for 12 month+. Use no or low-salt stock.
12 Months + You can smash down the potato cubes with the back of a fork or spoon.
YOUNGER CHILDREN & FUSSY EATERS
For kids that don’t like chunks of tomato, use finely chopped or crushed tinned tomatoes or even passata instead to go completely tomato lump-free.
STORAGE
You can store any Sausage and Tomato Soup leftovers in an air-tight container or resealable food bag in the fridge for up to 3 days (cook day + 2). You can also freeze them, just defrost for 24 hours in the fridge and reheat in the microwave, stirring halfway, until steaming hot all the way through.
Nutrition
Calories: 1020kcalCarbohydrates: 63gProtein: 48gFat: 65gSaturated Fat: 21gPolyunsaturated Fat: 9gMonounsaturated Fat: 29gTrans Fat: 0.5gCholesterol: 163mgSodium: 2046mgPotassium: 1980mgFiber: 12gSugar: 8gVitamin A: 3143IUVitamin C: 49mgCalcium: 157mgIron: 8mg
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