Eat By Design
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 55 minutes
Special Equipment: baking dish, large soup pot
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 3 medium carrots, peeled and diced
- 2 parsnips, peeled and diced
- 1 large onion, diced
- 4 cups peeled butternut squash, cut into bite size cubes
- 1 white potato, peeled and cubed
- 1 sweet potato, peeled and cubed
- 1 whole bulb of garlic, top chopped to exposed tops of garlic cloves
- 1 lb sausages cut into ½ inch pieces
- 8 cups homemade chicken broth or enough to cover vegetables
- 1 28 oz. can diced tomatoes, with liquid
- 2 cups lightly packed, coarsely chopped kale with stems removed
- ¼ teaspoon ground allspice
- ½ teaspoon thyme
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
Steps
- Preheat oven to 425ºF.
- In a baking dish add diced carrots, parsnips, onion, squash, potato and garlic.
- Toss with olive oil and bake for 40 minutes, stirring vegetables around halfway through.
- Meanwhile, brown sausages over medium heat for 5 minutes. This step is for extra flavor. You can also skip this step and put the sausages right into the simmering stock and they will cook through.
- Once veggies are cooked, set garlic aside to cool. You may want to throw it in the freezer for a few minutes.
- Transfer the veggies and sausages to the soup pot and add stock, tomatoes, spices and kale. Bring to a boil.
- Add garlic to the soup pot. The individual cloves should squeeze easily from their skins.
- Reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes.
*To save time skip the roasting step. Add oil to your soup pan, and then add onions and garlic. After 5 minutes add the rest of the ingredients and bring to a boil. Simmer for 20-30 minutes or until veggies are soft.
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