Rachael Perron shares a tomato tortellini soup recipe on KARE 11 Saturday that transforms pantry staples into a delicious winter meal.
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Well we’ve already talked about prepping your knives for soup season this morning, so let’s pair that with a great recipe. Yeah. Kowalski’s culinary director Rachel Perent is here with something that smells absolutely wonderful and is right up all of our alleys. — How
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— you? I’m great. Um, today is a fun day for us. It’s taste of Kowalskis, so it’s the most Kowalski’s of Kowalski’s events is the, the October event features. All of our signature branded products, it’s a great day to come in and try — all that we have to offer under our
— private label, um, 800 plus and growing, you know, like products that, and these are things that I work on with, um, a team there that’s, um, some of my own recipes. These are things I’m serve and make in my own home. — I mean these are the best of the best
— products if you want a free sample, endless free samples go to. All the Kowalski’s branded products. They’re an amazing, um, amazing line, my favorite in the store for sure, um, but we’re gonna make a soup that features some of these products in some unusual ways. It’s great for, you know, coming home from the apple orchard today or the pumpkin patch, you know, this is what you wanna have waiting for you, and it’s really easy and fast to pull together. What you smell is some garlic that I warmed up in a little bit of oil, um, just to get it warmed up really to take the, the raw taste off of it. You don’t, you don’t need it to be softened yet or dark. Or anything and then I add in some bulk here with some white beans and some tomatoes. These are canned. I do maybe recommend going for a low sodium option, um, because beans and tomatoes in cans can get quite salty quite fast. So another thing I’m gonna add in here is a Quilski’s product is this is our signature smoked mozzarella Italian sausage. Um, it looks like this. It’s precooked, so this is just need again to get warmed up. This is providing the bulk for our soup. We need some seasonings here. We’re gonna add in another one of my favorite products, a recipe of mine, our Kowalski’s pizza seasoning. So you shake it on a pizza, but it’s great in pasta sauce, soups. Um, I use it in meatloaf. So this has got a blend of oregano, basil, onion, garlic, the things that you think of as being associated with Italian food. Meatloaf needs a serious comeback, by the way. I am all about it. Let’s do it next time I’m here, by the way, um, so I love that, I mean, I don’t have to measure a bunch of things, just one thing all at once, everything, a little bit. Extra crushed red pepper and black red pepper for me. Um, you could also leave that out if you wanted to. And then because of that spice, the sausage is a little spicy tomatoes have some acidity, a pinch of sugar in there will kind of take that down and kind of bring everything into a nice bit of a balance. We obviously need a little bit of liquid to make a soup, so I’m using chicken broth. You can use stock, beef or vegetable, whatever works for you. Um, you just want something that again it’s going to have a lot of flavor and Again, maybe go for something low sodium. Do you stew this together at all before you put the uh tortellini in there? I’m gonna, well, after I add this next ingredient, I’m gonna add the tortellini very at the very, very end, pasta sauce. This is our tomato basil pasta sauce. Got a new label on it, something to look for today if you’re in the store. I don’t know if you’re a Rayos fan, Carbone’s, Michael’s of Brooklyn. Our pasta sauce is truly the best. We’ve tried them all. We’ve got the best of the best flavor there, um, so it’s a good option to try, but this is again one of those workhorse ingredients. It’s not just for pasta. It can provide all those things. I would otherwise have to cut up onions, celery, you know, carrots, all that stuff, other seasonings and tomato. You just add a boost of flavor all at once and just kind of get that going, and this is like this is 4 minutes. So this is very, very easy, very easy. And then the last 2 minutes of the 2 to 3 is just gonna be adding your tortelloni. I’m using again a Kwski’s branded product. This is our 4 cheese tortelloni. You could use a ravioli, but I love a filled pasta because it has great texture. It makes us feel extra hearty and brilliant comforting. This is 10 minutes of your time and you — have this beautiful meal
— and super full of flavor. It’s just like punchy. It’s, it’s spicy. It’s salty. It’s sweet. It’s, it’s comforting. It’s got that bulk from the beans, the tomatoes. I love the great get some of the fat in the sausage to render out too to — like have these hearty dishes
— if you care to at the end, by the way, you can add just a little, just a little hint of cream that’s just like a table that’s fun and a little lemon juice too. Um, I always think that just adds a little bit of a, a bright lift at the. it just gonna again, it’s all about balance and layers and everything there so that’s our tortellini and tomato. What a great, uh, what a great recipe, Rachel, as always, uh, you’re the best. Um, what else can people find? What are the other like you literally have 800 different, well, not, no, not for that’s not, they’re not 800 samples a day. I’m gonna get fired if someone thinks that we have that many products in the store with our label on them, but today you come in and you can try a handful of them. So that really was a letdown 800 to. but come on in and give them a try. I do also want to recommend Bobby, you’re doing the thing I insist. Our Parmesan herb bread has to be served with this soup. It’s isn’t that bread good? It’s our exclusive recipe. We make it from scratch in our bakery, and if you see a truck bread. Oh well, you know, if you’re ever out at 4 in the morning, you see a Kowalski’s truck drive into one of our stores. They’re probably delivering bread. We’re not out at 4 in the morning unless you’re coming here. Yeah, unless you’re coming here, but that that bread’s fresh and really, really good. Great, Rachel. Well, I’ll, we’ll try during the break and we’ll come right back. — Sounds
— good. Thank you right back.
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