Indiana Harvest Sausage Lentil Soup Recipe 415

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cover the lentils with boiling water and allow to sit for 15 minutes. Drain.
• In a large stockpot over medium heat, heat the olive oil and saute the onions, leeks, garlic, salt, pepper, thyme, and cumin for 20 minutes, or until the vegetables are translucent and tender. Add the celery and carrots and saute for another 10 minutes. Add the chicken stock, tomato paste, and drained lentils, cover, and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer uncovered for 1 hour, or until the lentils are cooked through and tender. Check the seasonings. Add the kielbasa and red wine and simmer until the kielbasa is hot. Serve drizzled with olive oil and sprinkled with grated Parmesan.
• Place the chickens, onions, carrots, celery, parsnips, parsley, thyme, dill, garlic, salt, and peppercorns in a 16 to 20-quart stockpot with 7 quarts of water and bring to a boil. Skim the surface as needed. Simmer uncovered for 4 hours. Strain the entire contents of the pot through a colander, discarding the chicken and vegetables, and chill. Discard the hardened fat, and then pack the broth in quart containers.

Steps:

• Crumble and brown sausage in oil in a 6 or 8 quart pot. Rinse, drain and pick over lentils. Add lentils, vegetable packet and broth to pot. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer, covered, for 1 hour, stirring occasionally, add zucchini after 30 minutes. Add tomatoes and wine to soup. Simmer, uncovered, for 15-30 minutes. Vegetarian Soup Recipe Variation: Start the soup with sautéing the vegetables that go into ratatouille: a red and green pepper, large onion, 2 medium zucchini, a small eggplant--cut up into 1-inch chunks. Add the soup mix and 8 cups broth. Simmer 45 minutes, add the tomatoes and simmer 10 minutes. Serve with grated Parmesan cheese! Slow Cooker Recipe* In large skillet crumble and brown sausage in oil, stir in contents of seasoning packet. Transfer to bowl of slow cooker and add broth. (May start soup night before and cover and refrigerate overnight.) Rinse, drain and pick over lentils, place into slow cooker and stir well. Cover and cook on High 4-5 hours. Add tomatoes, zucchini and wine and continue on HI 1 hour. *This soup takes less than 2 hours to make on the stove, so the slow cooker may not offer much convenience unless the plan is to start it in the morning so you can come home to hot soup. Be careful though, lentils tend to break down over time so if you cook this for more than about 6 hours you may end up with lentil puree instead of individual beans.

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven, cook sausage over medium heat until no longer pink. Drain fat and crumble sausage; return to Dutch oven along with remaining ingredients except mustard. Simmer, covered, 1 hour or until lentils and vegetables are tender. Stir in mustard. Remove and discard bay leaf before serving.

Steps:

• Place sausage in a large pot. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Add onion, celery and chopped garlic, and saute until tender and translucent. Stir in lentils, carrot, water, chicken broth and tomatoes. Season with garlic powder, parsley, bay leaves, oregano, thyme, basil, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat. Cover, and simmer for 2 1/2 to 3 hours, or until lentils are tender.
• Stir in pasta, and cook 15 to 20 minutes, or until pasta is tender.