Escarole Soup Amongst Zucchini In Addition To Italian Sausage

Ingredients:

3/4 lb hot Italian sausage (casings removed)
two pocket-size zucchini, diced
1 pocket-size onion, diced
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 large caput escarole, chopped
two quarts chicken, turkey or vegetable stock
1 15-oz tin cannellini beans, drained
1/2 teaspoon sweetness paprika
1 tablespoon Italian herb seasoning
salt
freshly terra firma dark pepper

Pecorino Romano to garnish (optional)


Directions:

Roll the sausage into 1/4 inch balls. In a large, heavy-bottomed stock pot, saute the sausage until browned on all sides as well as nearly fully cooked. Remove to a newspaper towel-lined plate as well as gear upward aside.

Drain off to a greater extent than or less of the grease, leaving almost 1-2 tablespoons inwards the pot. Saute the zucchini, onion, as well as garlic until the onion is translucent as well as the zucchini is nearly fully cooked, almost 5-10 minutes. Add the escarole as well as saute until it starts to wilt. Add the remaining ingredient, including the sausage balls as well as simmer for xx minutes or until the escarole is soft as well as the sausage is 100% cooked through. Sprinkle amongst Pecorino Romano as well as serve.

My thoughts:

We convey had such a hot, humid as well as incredibly rainy summertime thus when it live was below 85 for to a greater extent than than a few hours, it felt downright chilly. I went to a novel grocery shop that only opened upward as well as amidst other things, they had escarole. Why escarole tin live difficult to find, I don't know. We convey a pretty large Italian population as well as things similar fennel as well as every form of Italian deli meat as well as cheese known to (wo)man are pretty slowly to discovery but escarole, non thus much. This shop had non exclusively escarole but curly endive which is rattling nearly the same thing. Fancy greens!

Anyway! I was excited to run into it but as well as thus brought it domicile as well as had nada to produce amongst it. It's 1 of my favorite greens inwards a soup because it doesn't instruct slimy (ew) as well as maintains a fleck of it's texture lots of its flavor as well as sturdiness. Since nosotros are nearing on the halt of August as well as it was exclusively almost fourscore out, I decided to move for it as well as brand something that seems fall-ish (although autumn does non start for to a greater extent than or less other month!) as well as a fleck hardy. Since zucchini (along amongst escarole) is inwards flavour now, I added that to the soup to volume it upward a bit. Leafy soups ever move out me a fleck hungry fifty-fifty when they convey chunks of yummy locally made sausage inwards it. I actually loved how the soup came out, it was filling but did convey a lite flavor almost it--perfect equally nosotros skid into cooler days.

Weird Tip: My married adult man has problem heating homemade soup upward at operate for luncheon (it never seems to come upward out correctly) thus he used the broth from a bowl of soup to brand rice as well as and thus topped it amongst the remaining enterprise ingredients to brand a slightly brothy dish that reheats nicely inwards the microwave.