Italian Soup Recipes: Zuppa Toscana

When we want to have warm Italian foods, having Italian soup recipes may be the best way for getting that warmness. There are many kinds of Italian recipes for soup and we will not be able to talk the entire recipes in this discussion. For that reason, I will focus my discussion in an Italian soup which is called Zuppa Toscana. This soup is really favorable in Italian foods as it has a really wonderful and delicious taste. Now, we will talk this recipe in more details.

Ingredients of Zuppa Toscana

This soup comes with really delicious taste. The combination of sausage, potatoes, and seasonings will surely make your tongue really flattered. It will melt your tongue for sure. This recipe of Italian soup is not really hard to be done. You will have easy steps for doing this soup and you also will do many things with the foods that you will have. Now, here are the ingredients that you should prepare.

1. 4 potatoes which are cut in ¼ inch piece
2. 2 packages of smoked sausage (32 ounces)
3. 12 slices of bacon
4. 1.5 cup of chopped onion
5. 4 cups of kale which are washed, then dried, and shredded
6. 3 teaspoon of garlic which is minced
7. 2 quart water
8. 4 tablespoons powder of chicken bouillon
9. 2/3 cup of heavy whipping cream

How to Make Zuppa Toscana

Now, it is time for us to learn about doing Italian soup recipes. The steps are quite simple to be done. You will only need one hour for finishing this food. That will surely be a short time as you will not have to have full attention over the cooking process. Here are the steps for making this Zuppa Toscana.

1. Start with heating your oven up to 150 degrees Celsius.
2. Then, when the oven has reached the desired temperature, you need to layer the links of sausage in the baking seeds and then you will bake the sausage for 25 minutes.
3. After you have baked it, you need to cut in in half length and then cut again the half-length in vertically with ½ slices.
4. Prepare your saucepan and put onions and bacon in it.
5. Cook the bacon and garlic in medium fire till the color of onions is nearly clear.
6. When the bacon and garlic done, you take it and put it aside and then, you add again onion and cook it for 1 minute then you follow it with adding chicken bouillon, potatoes, and water, then simmer it for about 15 minutes.
7. In the last minutes, you can add the last remaining and put aside ingredients like bacon, kale, sausage, and cream in the chicken bouillon mixture and simmer it for 4 minutes.

Those are the steps and ingredients that you need to do and prepare in these Italian soup recipes. You see that making this Zuppa Toscana is not a big deal and the satisfaction that you get will be full too. Now, you better make it and prove how delicious this cooking is.

• Tweet
• Share
• Share
• Share
• Share