Italian Sausage Soup

This sausage soup is total comfort food in a bowl with red pepper, spinach, and frozen egg noodles that give it such a from scratch feel to it!

Do you ever eat something and it reminds you of a nostalgic food but you can't put your finger on it? That is this Italian sausage soup for me. I think, in part, the nostalgia is due to the frozen egg noodles. The thing is...I can't remember who it was that made the recipe with frozen egg noodles. I feel like it was my mother-in-law but it very well could be my grandma. Who knows! What I do know is that you cannot go wrong with a sausage soup with red bell and spinach in it. The nostalgic noodles were just a bonus :)

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What you need:

• 1 lb. Italian sausage
• 1 small onion, diced
• 1 small red bell pepper, diced
• 2 tsp. minced garlic cloves
• 2 Tbsp. unsalted butter
• 2 Tbsp. all-purpose flour
• 6 cups chicken broth
• 12 oz. Reames frozen egg noodles
• 2 cups half and half
• 3 cups baby spinach
• 1/2 tsp. black pepper
• 1/2 cup shredded Parmesan cheese

Directions:

1. In a large stock pot over medium-high heat, brown and crumble Italian sausage. Then remove from pot.
2. In the same pot, melt butter and add onion, red bell, and garlic. Saute for 4 to 5 minutes.
3. Sprinkle with flour and stir. Cook for 1 minute, stirring constantly. 
4. Add chicken broth and bring to a boil.
5. Then add egg noodles and return to a boil. 
6. Cook for 20 minutes, stirring often.
7. Add sausage, half and half, and spinach and cook until spinach has wilted and soup is heated through.
8. Add pepper to taste.
9. Serve topped with Parmesan

Recipe from The Gunny Sack

I can't get enough of the comfort foods this time of year, like this One Pot White Chicken Lasagna Soup. I highly recommend this Cheeseburger Soup from The Recipe Critic - it's another family favorite that we make often.

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