Sausage, Potato and Spinach Soup
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Hearty, comforting, and done in 30 min. Made with crumbled sausage, tender potatoes and sneaked in greens!
A bowl of true comfort food that comes together so quickly on your dinner table in 30 min or less. That’s something I can live with all week. And even though it’s a piping hot bowl of soup, I can probably have this all year long, warming me up from the inside out.
Packed with spicy Italian sausage, tender bite-sized potatoes and hearty baby spinach, this is a complete meal in a single bowl, served with all the crusty bread for dipping. It’s like a warm hug in a bowl.
Tools For This Recipe
Dutch oven
Sausage, Potato and Spinach Soup: Frequently Asked Questions
For a milder option, you can go for sweet or mild Italian sausage.
Absolutely! But because dried herbs are often more potent/concentrated than fresh herbs, you need less when using dry. The correct ratio is 1 tablespoon fresh herbs to 1 teaspoon dried herbs.
Yes! You can freeze the leftovers without the heavy cream (cream soups tend to separate when frozen) in individual freezer bags, thaw overnight, and reheat on the stovetop, adding heavy cream when serving.
Sausage, Potato and Spinach Soup
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 pound spicy Italian sausage, casing removed
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 onion, diced
- ½ teaspoon dried oregano
- ½ teaspoon dried basil
- ½ teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes, optional
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- 5 cups chicken broth
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 pound red potatoes, diced
- 3 cups baby spinach
- ¼ cup heavy cream
Instructions
- Heat olive oil in a large stockpot or Dutch oven over medium heat. Add Italian sausage and cook until browned, about 3-5 minutes, making sure to crumble the sausage as it cooks; drain excess fat.
- Stir in garlic, onion, oregano, basil and red pepper flakes. Cook, stirring frequently, until onions have become translucent, about 2-3 minutes; season with salt and pepper, to taste.
- Stir in chicken broth and bay leaf, and bring to a boil. Add potatoes and cook until tender, about 10 minutes.
- Stir in spinach until it begins to wilt, about 1-2 minutes. Stir in heavy cream until heated through, about 1 minute; season with salt and pepper, to taste.
- Serve immediately.
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As a man who often comes home hungry and has to make dinner to feed our family this recipe was great. It was easy, relatively quick, and from simple ingredients. I made this last night for my family and it was delicious. We served it with a hearty bread to soak up all that deliciousness. However, my wife and I both thought it could have used anther couple cups of spinach. There was just enough leftover for my wife and I to both take some to work for lunch today.
This was delicious. Made it with Chicken sausage, kale, and half and half as those were the ingredients I already had. Came out excellent. Whole family enjoyed even picky 3 year old.
Is it a coincidence that every yummy recipe I find on Pinterest leads me to your website? After 25 years of cooking you have put the spark back in my meal planning! My family thanks you!!! 🙂
I made this delicious soup for dinner on a cold and drizzly night and it was hearty and rich enough to feed my hardworking husband who doesn’t think soup is a meal. We loved it and I only made a few minor tweaks. I used fat free half and half, I forgot the chicken broth, so I used water and a touch of bouillon. I added mushrooms in my sauteed sausage and onions. And I made kale chips in the oven while I was making cornbread to go with it and I floated the kale on top of the soup in addition to the wilted spinach. The whole think was delicious! and really rich and decadent. Will be made next time I have dinner guests for sure…
This reminds me of my favorite Olive Garden soup! They use kale… but I also love spinach- maybe even broccoli? Our local market makes a terrific chicken Italian sausage (can’t tell the difference!) so that would be another potential substitute, since I keep it in my freezer.
Love it! Keep’em coming…..
I made this tonight for an event. So yummy, easy and healthy. Everyone loved it.
I am really enjoying your recipes, they are fantastic!
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Delicious! Made it last night with turkey sausage and family loved it. Thanks for recipe.
Love this! Looks like the perfect thing for a cold night snuggled on the sofa!
This soup ROCKED! My husband loves sausage, spinach and potatoes so this was amazing for us. One thing I did was, instead of adding the spinach in the soup, I just put it in our bowls and then poured the soup super hot over top. That still cooked the spinach and wilted it once you stirred it up. I’ve had bad experiences with wilted spinach not keeping well. Not sure if that would have happened in this recipe or not. But DAMN GIRL! This was good.
I made this for my family tonight. It was a hit! I’m going to have to double it next time. 😉
I made this over the weekend and it was damn delicious! Not only was it great tasting it was super easy and fast to make. This one is going in the rotation! Thanks for the great recipe
Made this tonight and it was a huge hit! Love your site! Such fantastic recipes!!
Excerpt from conversation with my mom. Me: “I’m going to make soup!” My mom: “You get carried away with food pictures, does the recipe have a lot of review?” Me: “No. She posted it yesterday, but I trust her and that one recipe I made from her blog didn’t let me down!”
Just ate a bowl of this soup and it was delicious! Spicy & hearty! I added in a carrot, diced & some sliced mushrooms because I wanted more veggies. I also used 2 cans of low-sodium chicken broth and then did another 11oz of water. I didn’t add salt and thought the soup was still a bit salty (I assume from the sausage), but I think it will pair well with some baguette slices! Thank you Chungah!
Soup never fills me up but one with sausage, potato and spinach just might. Looks really good! Pinned!
Slurp – this is my kind of soup, quick, fresh, and easy. 🙂 The hubs will ask for more sausage in it.
This one is a fall family favorite in my home, super easy and Damn Delicious :). One suggestion I’d like to offer…if you like making enough for leftovers…swap some kale for the spinach, it holds up better when re-heating!
My wife is not a fan of spicy Italian sausage, but could go for the milder version. Of the many different types of sausage and ingredients available these days, which would you recommend to be a great sustitute? In turkey or chicken versions.
It really depends on your wife’s personal preference – but I would personally choose chicken over turkey!
I’m using bratwurst because that’s what i have on hand…..my son used the last of my Italian the other day. 🙁 I am pretty sure any sausage could substitute for your taste.
Yummm! I’m one of those girls too, who can eat a pipping hot bowl of soup any day of the year 🙂
You can substitute Non-Fat Half and Half for the heavy cream! Can’t wait to make this soup – sounds wonderful.
Very tasty and easy to put together! The only change I made was to eliminate the heavy cream-didn’t have any. Otherwise just delicious.
Ohh, here I go again to thaw out the sausage! Just happen to have everything needed on hand and will make this for dinner today. I can’t bring myself to count calories for every dish I make but using some good judgement on frequency works just fine. Looking forward to dinner tonight … if I can wait until then! Thank you for such great and ‘damndelicious’ recipes.