Sausage Soup

Prep Time: About 15 minutes  Cook Time: 40 minutes

Ingredients:

• 1 pound ground Italian sausage (1/2 mild, ½ spicy) (if unground remove the sausage from the outer skin).

• 1 chopped onion

• 5 cups beef broth

• 2 cups chopped tomatoes (or one 16oz can drained diced tomatoes)

• 1 8oz can tomato sauce

• 2 zucchinis chopped

• 2 large carrots chopped

• ½ cup dry red wine

• 1 Tablespoon dried Basil

• 1 Tablespoon dried Oregano

Directions:

1. Bring the broth to a boil, add in the tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, red wine, Basil, and Oregano and lower heat.  

2. Add the chopped carrots and zucchinis to the broth.

3. In a separate pan, sauté the sausage over medium-high heat. Transfer the cooked sausage to the soup.

4. Keep about 1 tablespoon of sausage drippings in the pan and saute the onion in it until transparent. Add the onion to the soup.

5. Simmer until vegetables are tender then serve! (about 40 minutes from when you put veggies in).