Sausage, Spinach, and White Bean Soup
This sounds really good and your slow cooker does most of the work, all you have to do is brown the sausage, then put everything in the slow cooker. This recipe called for canned beans, feel free to cook dry beans for this as a cost saver, you will need 3 1/2 cups cooked beans. Canned beans are a prepared item, not a processed item.
Ingredients
- 400 grams smoked sausage, OR chicken sausage, thinly sliced
- 3 cloves garlic, smashed and minced
- 1 onion, diced
- 2-3 carrots, chopped
- 2 stalks celery, chopped, go with import for this
- 2 cans Great Northern Beans, 15 oz cans drained and rinsed
- 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
- 2 bay leaves
- 4 cups chicken stock, fresh or from powder
- 3 cups spinach, fresh or frozen, thawed and drained
- salt and pepper, to taste
- olive oil, as needed
Instructions
- Heat a large non stick pan with a splash of olive oil and brown the sausage slices, when browned after 4-5 minutes, put them in the slow cooker. To the slow cooker, also add the garlic, carrots, celery, beans, oregano, and bay leaves. Then stir in the chicken stock and 2 cups of water until combined. Season with salt and pepper to your liking.
- Cover and cook on Low setting for 7-8 hours or High setting for 3-4 hours. Stir in the spinach and cook until that is wilted and warmed through. Serve.
Notes
Figure about 100 Baht/500 grams for smoked sausage at Makro. Prepare the beans from dry beans for a substantial cost savings or to save time, and if they are available in your location, use the canned beans. For 8 servings, this is about 37 cents per serving.
Variants, instead of sausage, use 2 chicken breasts, boneless and skinless, cube them up and throw right into the slow cooker, no need to brown. Use vegetables you have on hand.
Adapted from an internet recipe.
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