The sausage provides a base of flavor for the apple and yellow lentil soup and adds texture and protein to the final product, becoming a meal in a bowl.
Apple and Yellow Lentil Soup with Sweet Italian Sausage
Servings
8 Servings
Ingredients
- 4 Sweet Jack’s Italian Sausages sliced into rounds
- 2 cups yellow or red lentils
- 1 onion finely chopped
- 1 clove garlic minced
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- Pinch of chili flakes
- 1 cup shredded Granny Smith apple
- 1 cup shredded carrot
- 1/2 cup white wine
- 1/3 cup apple cider
- 8 cups chicken or vegetable stock or use water and a bit more salt
- Salt to taste
- Basil or parsley for garnish
Instructions
- Soak lentils overnight. Heat a heavy-bottomed pot on medium heat.
- Drizzle 1 tablespoon oil in pot and sear sausage slices until golden brown.
- Remove sausage from pan and reserve until ready to serve soup.
- In the same pot used to sear sausages, sauté onions and garlic until toasty. Add tomato paste, pepper, ginger powder, cumin, and chili flakes and sauté for two minutes. Add shredded apples and shredded carrots. Cook until soft.
- De-glaze with white wine, and then add apple cider, chicken stock and lentils; sim- mer until soft and almost falling apart. Add salt to taste.
- Pour the soup into bowls, top with the seared sausage and thinly sliced basil or parsley.
- As seen in Joy of Kosher with Jamie Geller Chanukah 2014 – Subscribe Now
Why not? Its kosher sausage and has no dairy – what would be the issue?
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seriously, Sausage in a kosher recipe?
this makes no sense