Italian stretch soup!
Italian stretch soup!

Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, italian stretch soup!. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Italian stretch soup! is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Italian stretch soup! is something which I have loved my whole life.

Great recipe for Italian stretch soup!. I came up with this because I had different little bits of left overs on hand and not really enough to make any one thing. My husband had made corned beef and cabbage the night before so I decided soup was on the menu.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have italian stretch soup! using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Italian stretch soup!:
  1. Prepare 5 strips bacon keep the bacon grease.
  2. Prepare 6 sausage links( casings removed)
  3. Prepare 1 cup hamburger( cooked) can cook with the pork I just had already cooked burger left over.
  4. Take 3/4 onion, chopped
  5. Get 1 lg. mushroom (sliced)
  6. Make ready 1/2 head cabbage ,chopped(red is what i had great flavor nice surprise)
  7. Prepare 2 tbsp garlic
  8. Make ready 1 tbsp Italian herbs
  9. Get 1/2 gallon more or less to liking stock of choice( I had stock from corned beef and cabbage left )
  10. Make ready 3 potatoes
  11. Take 4 carrots
  12. Prepare 2 tbsp butter/ and or coconut oil

We added pasta, chickpeas and arugula to turn it into a meal. Serve with: Garlic bread and Caesar salad. Bread soup, also known as Italian ribollita, is no exception. For centuries, cooks have used bread to stretch leftover soup and make it extra filling.

Instructions to make Italian stretch soup!:
  1. Use a stock pot thin enough you can sauté in. If you don't have one a sauté pan/ fry pan works too.
  2. Cook up the bacon till crisp enough to crumble but not loose flavor in stock pot. Set aside just to cool then crumble. Put back into stock pot along with the bacon fat.
  3. Add butter and or oil, onion, and mushroom. Sauté till onion is caramelized. I used the butter and bacon fat for flavor and added coconut oil cuz there was a lot to sauté and didn't want to add more fat.
  4. Add Italian herbs sauté a couple minutes add in hamburger and sausage. Cook till most all pink is gone. Add garlic . Sauté another min. Add cabbage.
  5. Once cabbage is tender add carrots potatoes and stock.
  6. Cook till veggies are all tender add salt and pepper to taste.

If this is your first time hearing of bread soup, just think: many of us like to crumble crackers in our soup. It stands to reason that bread and soup are naturals together. I love this soup because you can add almost anything to it! Toss in any fresh or canned vegetables you have, or even leftover roasted vegetables. This budget-friendly recipe is a great meatless meal, or add in ground sausage, sliced Italian sausage or ground beef to stretch this soup even further!

So that is going to wrap this up with this exceptional food italian stretch soup! recipe. Thank you very much for reading. I’m sure you will make this at home. There’s gonna be interesting food at home recipes coming up. Don’t forget to save this page in your browser, and share it to your loved ones, colleague and friends. Thanks again for reading. Go on get cooking!