Food & Wine
Sausage tomato and potato soup
If you’re looking for a hearty, wholesome dinner for a cold winter’s night, you can’t do much better than this delicious sausage, tomato and potato soup.
Serves: 4
Ingredients:
- 5 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1 onion, finely chopped
- 1 carrot, peeled, diced 1cm
- 1 stick celery, thinly sliced
- 4 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 1 tablespoon very finely chopped rosemary
- 400g potatoes peeled and diced
- 3 x 400g cans chopped tomatoes in juice
- 6 Italian-style pork sausages
- Crusty bread to serve
Method:
- To begin, heat four tablespoons of the oil in a large saucepan over moderate heat.
- Add the onion, carrot, celery, garlic, rosemary and potatoes.
- Cover and fry gently, without browning, for about 15 minutes.
- Add the tomatoes, mix well and bring to the boil then simmer for 10 minutes.
- Fry the sausages in the remaining oil in a frying pan until cooked through.
- Cut into slices around about a centimetre thick.
- Add the sausage slices to the soup and mix well.
- Taste and season with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
- Drizzle with oil then serve with crusty bread.
Doesn’t that soup sound simply incredible? What’s your all-time favourite type of soup to curl up with on a cold winter’s night?
Written by Ray McVinnie. First appeared on Stuff.co.nz.
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