Creamy Potato, Sausage and Kale Soup is hearty, comforting and delicious. Pork sausage is cooked with onions and garlic in a creamy broth with cooked red potatoes and kale. I like to serve this soup with a slice of crusty bread or a melty grilled cheese sandwich. This soup serves 6 in about 1 hour and 20 minutes.
Happy Monday!
I swear these weeks keep going by in a blink of an eye. Is it just me? Because I feel like I’m reliving Groundhog’s Day and keep waking up on a new Monday and have to grocery shop…again. However I will say, this weekend was pretty great. We laid low, Seamus [our dog] recently had surgery and he’s still healing so we didn’t want to leave him home for long and risk him jumping on the couch (as he’s known to do when we aren’t looking) and tear a suture. He’s nine years old but still very much acts like a puppy. So I made soup, we played cards… it was great.
Speaking of soup 😉 there has never been a creamy soup that I didn’t like.
Truth. Not only is this potato, sausage and kale soup one of my favorites but it’s incredibly soul-satisfyingly delicious too! There’s so much textural things happening; creamy, buttery potatoes, chewy and tender sausage and kale. And I feel good about the creamy nature of the soup because there is kale floating among the potatoes and sausage.
And if I’m doing my math right, that’s like two vegetables vs. 2 cups half & half, so they should totally cancel each other out. Right?
Did I mention this is a one-pot soup?
Golden.
To make This Potato Sausage and Kale Soup You Will Need:
- redskins
- onions
- garlic
- dried red pepper flakes
- thyme
- bulk breakfast sausage
- unbleached all-purpose flour
- low-sodium chicken broth, half & half and kale.
If you happen to live somewhere without access to half & half, for this recipe, you can use 1 cup whole milk with 1 cup heavy cream.
Start by placing 6 to 8 small to medium (around 1 pound total) redskin potatoes into a heavy pot or Dutch oven. Cover with water by 2-inches and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer with the lid askew for 20 to 25 minutes or until the potatoes can be easily pierced by a fork, with zero resistance.
Drain the potatoes into a colander set into your kitchen sink and return the pot to the stove top.
Then add 2 teaspoons light olive oil into the pot, add 1 cup diced yellow onion and a pinch of kosher salt and sauté until tender and translucent. Next add in the 2 cloves minced garlic and 1 teaspoon minced fresh thyme leaves and cook for 1 to 2 minutes.
Next add in the pound of bulk breakfast sausage and cook on medium to medium-low heat until browned and fully cooked. About 10 to 15 minutes or so.
You want there to be browned bits [or fond] on the bottom of the pot, there is so much flavor there.
Stir in 1/4 cup unbleached all-purpose flour until fully absorbed and no trace of flour remains. Because all brands of sausage can be different, there could be differing amounts of fat, with that said add a little more flour if needed to absorb any remaining traces of fat.
Once the flour has been absorbed, add in a few pinches of red pepper flakes
Then pour in the 6 cups of low-sodium chicken broth.
Be sure to scrape any brown bits up off the bottom of your pot. Then add in the 2 cups half & half.
Stir, bring to a simmer and continue to cook until the soup is starting to thicken.
Add in the diced (cooked) redskin potatoes and the chopped kale. Stir and continue to cook until the kale has wilted and the soup is thick. About 15 more minutes or so. Sometimes, because I’m extremely impatient, I wait for the kale to wilt and then I stir in a slurry of 2 tablespoons cornstarch mixed with 2 tablespoons cold water.
Once the potato, sausage and kale soup has thickened, season with salt and pepper to taste and ladle it into bowl and serve alongside a loaf of crusty bread or grilled cheese sandwich. Or neither and eat as is. Creamy and flavorful! I hope you love this soup as much as we do!
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Potato, Sausage and Kale Soup
Ingredients
- 6 to 8 small red potatoes, up to 8 depending on size
- 2 teaspoons light olive oil
- 1 cup diced yellow onion
- 2 cloves peeled fresh garlic, finely minced
- 1 teaspoon chopped fresh thyme leaves
- 1 pound mild breakfast sausage
- 1/4 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
- 2 pinches red pepper flakes, more or less to taste, optional
- 6 cup low-sodium chicken broth
- 2 cups half & half, (see notes)
- 2 cups chopped fresh kale
- kosher salt, to taste
- freshly ground black pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Start by placing 6 to 8 small to medium (about 1 pound total) redskin potatoes into a heavy pot or Dutch oven. Cover with water by 2-inches and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer with the lid askew for 20 to 25 minutes or until the potatoes can be easily pierced by a fork, with zero resistance. While the potatoes cook, I prep the remaining ingredients.
- Drain the potatoes into a colander set into your kitchen skin and return the pot to the stove top. Once cool, dice the potatoes into bite-size pieces.
- To the pot add the olive oil, the yellow onion and a pinch of kosher salt. Sauté until tender and translucent, about 5 to 8 minutes. Then add in the garlic and thyme leaves and cook for 1 to 2 minutes.
- Next add in the bulk breakfast sausage and cook on medium to medium-low heat until browned and fully cooked, about 10 to 15 minutes or so. You want there to be browned bits [or fond] on the bottom of the pot, because there is so much flavor in those.
- Stir in the flour until fully absorbed and no trace of flour remains. All brands of sausage can be different, so add more flour if needed to absorb any remaining traces of fat. Once the flour has been absorbed, add in a few pinches of red pepper flakes before pouring in the 6 cups of low-sodium chicken broth, scraping those brown bits up off the bottom of your pot. Then add in the 2 cups half & half.
- Stir, bring to a simmer and continue to cook until the soup starts to thicken. Then add in the diced potatoes and chopped kale. Stir and continue to cook until the kale has wilted and the soup is thick. About 15 more minutes or so. Alternatively, you can wait for the kale to wilt and then thicken it by stirring in a slurry mixture of 2 tablespoons cornstarch mixed with 2 tablespoons cold water.
- Season the soup with kosher salt and black pepper to taste.
- Ladle soup into bowls and serve with a loaf of crusty bread.
Notes
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So Lauren, now that I know what you meant, I’m laughing at myself…but I read “set into your kitchen skin” (in the second paragraph) about eight times before I realized that you meant “set into your kitchen SINK”. I actually Googled “What is a kitchen skin.” LOL!!!!! Anyway, this will be dinner tonight. Thanks for sharing!
Gah! Stupid autocorrect! I swear, I have no appropriate words for how I feel about it. Ha Ha! Kitchen skin – I can’t imagine what Google pulled up for you! Anyways, sorry for that! I hope you enjoy the soup, Angie!
I made this over the weekend and it was delicious! The whole family enjoyed it. It’s a keeper!!!
I’m so glad Barbara!
Do you think breakfast sausage could be swapped for spicy Italian??
sure!
I have noticed that many of your recipes call for Kale, I am not a big fan of Kale, however, I love spinach. Could I substitute spinach for kale and it so how else should I differ? Quanity, time, etc?
thank you so much
sam