Best Kale Soup Recipe with Sausage (2024)

Best Kale Soup Recipe with Sausage – A hearty soup filled with nutritious and delicious ingredients. Each slurp is filled with bold Italian flavors, tasty pork sausage, and chunks of vegetables and kale. Cook it on the stovetop or in a slow cooker.

This nutritious and delicious kale soup with sausage is so hearty and comforting on a cold day. Full of fresh vegetables, Italian seasonings, lots of kale, and pork sausage, this is bound to become a new family favorite. Better yet, it can be made on the stove in about 30 minutes or you can set it and forget it in a slow cooker.

The Italian flavors in this sausage kale soup only get better over time. Store the leftovers and enjoy them for weekday lunches, or easily freeze a batch so you can have a delicious meal ready in a pinch. A bowl of this soup is so warming and filling, it’s perfect for both lunches and dinners.

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What You’ll Need to Make the Best Kale Soup

The ingredients in this soup recipe with kale are simple, inexpensive, and versatile. Feel free to add in more of your favorites or mix it up by adding different vegetables, meats, or seasonings. These are the ingredients you’ll need:

• Chopped kale
• Sweet Italian pork sausages
• Chicken broth (homemade chicken broth or storebought)
• Onion and garlic
• Celery and carrots
• Italian seasoning
• Red pepper flakes
• Potato
• A bay leaf

How to Make Kale Soup on the Stove

Step 1: First, saute the onion in a large pot with some oil over medium heat.

Step 2: Once it’s golden and fragrant, add in the sausage and cook until browned.

Step 3: Add the garlic, celery, carrots, and seasonings and saute until the veggies are tender.

Step 4: Pour in the broth, potato and add the bay leaf. Bring the soup up to a boil, then let it simmer for 15 minutes.

Step 5: To finish, stir in the kale and simmer until it’s wilted. Serve and enjoy!

How to Make This Kale Soup Recipe in a Crock Pot

Step 1: First, saute the onion in a large skillet on the stove with some oil over medium heat. As soon as it’s ready, add in the sausage and cook until browned.

Step 2: Now, add the onion and sausage mixture, the vegetables, seasonings, broth, and the bay leaf into the bowl of a slow cooker.

Step 3: Next, cook on high for 6 hours or low for 8 hours.

Step 4: Lastly, when the soup is ready, stir in the kale and let it cook for another 5 minutes or until the leaves have wilted. Serve and enjoy!

Tips and Substitutions

• Don’t have kale at home? Feel free to swap it with spinach instead.
• Add as many extra vegetables, legumes, or beans as you like. This soup would be delicious with chunks of white or sweet potatoes, cooked chickpeas or lentils, and canned diced tomatoes.
• To make this soup vegan or vegetarian-friendly, swap the sausage for a plant-based meat alternative and use vegetable broth instead of chicken broth.
• Make your own homemade instant pot chicken broth or instant pot beef bone broth to add heaps of fresh flavors to this meal.
• Serve each bowl of soup with parmesan cheese on top, with a slice of fresh no knead bread, or next to a warm chicken panini sandwich.

Storing, Freezing, and Reheating

Store your leftovers in sealed containers in the fridge. The soup should stay fresh for about 4 or 5 days.

To freeze kale soup, keep it in a sealed container or zip bag. It can be frozen for up to 3 months. You can thaw the frozen soup by leaving it in the fridge overnight or reheating it right from frozen.

You can reheat the chilled or frozen soup for a few minutes in the microwave (stirring in between each minute) or in a pot on the stove over medium heat.

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