Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, italian stretch soup!. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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.
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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook italian stretch soup! using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Italian stretch soup!:
- Prepare 5 strips bacon keep the bacon grease.
- Make ready 6 sausage links( casings removed)
- Prepare 1 cup hamburger( cooked) can cook with the pork I just had already cooked burger left over.
- Get 3/4 onion, chopped
- Prepare 1 lg. mushroom (sliced)
- Prepare 1/2 head cabbage ,chopped(red is what i had great flavor nice surprise)
- Take 2 tbsp garlic
- Make ready 1 tbsp Italian herbs
- Make ready 1/2 gallon more or less to liking stock of choice( I had stock from corned beef and cabbage left )
- Prepare 3 potatoes
- Get 4 carrots
- Make ready 2 tbsp butter/ and or coconut oil
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Steps to make Italian stretch soup!:
- Use a stock pot thin enough you can sauté in. If you don't have one a sauté pan/ fry pan works too.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Once cabbage is tender add carrots potatoes and stock.
- Cook till veggies are all tender add salt and pepper to taste.
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