Creamy Italian Sausage Soup (Keto friendly)

A simple soup that is perfect for cold weather or really anytime. This ia a keto recipe but is easily adaptable so if you’re not on keto you can add beans and pasta to it!

Ingredients:
5-6 pieces of thick cut bacon
1 LB bulk Italian sausage
1 32 ounce carton chicken broth
1 cup of water
1 cup of heavy cream
1 cup chopped onion
5 cloves minced garlic
1 teaspoon red pepper flake
salt and pepper to taste
1 tablespoon of “Better Than Bullion” Roasted chicken base
2 cups chopped cauliflower
2 cups chopped kale
Grated parmesan cheese for garnish
(To make it a hardier soup and you’re not doing keto you can then add one can of drained cannellini beans and one cup of Ditalini pasta. Please note that if you do this you need to also add an additional 2 cups of chicken broth to the soup)

Hey guys welcome back to my kitchen and happy New Year if you are a repeat offender I love you and if you’re new to this channel then welcome now I hope you had a great holiday season I myself at the beginning of December had to have surgery on my right foot which rendered

Me slightly handicapped for 8 weeks so I’m on a knee scooter which you probably can’t see in this shot I don’t think you can you can hear it it’s nice and squeaky um but you can see it in the video so I just want to let you know that’s what’s going on

I’m I should be absolutely fine uh but that’s the reason why I wanted to keep today’s tutorial or today’s recipe really quick simple and easy not to mention it’s January and you know what that means time to diet yay um but in all seriousness this

Is a keto recipe so if you’re doing a keto diet this soup is absolutely perfect for you and if you’re not dieting this recipe is very adaptable and I will show you where you can add some beans and pasta to really bulk this up and make it a nice hearty meal so

Enough talking let’s get cooking so I’m going to start off with a heavy bottom pot on my stove and I’m going to put the heat on medium medium high and we’re just going to Brown off some bacon so all you really need is four to five pieces of bacon cut up I

Actually have a little bit more here because I needed to cook the bacon I had before it went bad so just get it in your pan and then slowly Brown your Bacon okay so this bacon looks really good so I’m going to remove the bacon from my pot using this slotted type spoon to help drain off some of the fat Okay so there’s our bacon set that off to the side and now you’re going to take one lb of bulk Italian sausage and add that to the pot break it up um you can leave it in bigger chunks if you want um or you can break it down as much as I do

I kind of like it in smaller pieces but just slowly Brown off your sausage Now that our sausage is cooked I’m going to remove that uh just like the bacon with a slotted spoon and then I like to take a piece of paper towel and just drop it in the bottom of the pot to absorb some of that extra

Grease I like to leave a little bit of the fat in the pan because to that we’re going to add about one cup of chopped onion or one medium onion and five cloves of minced garlic and we’re just going to sauté that scraping the bottom to get those nice tasty Brown

Bits and then we’ll add about a teaspoon of red pepper flake I’ll sauté this until the garlic becomes nice and fragrant and the onion is a little translucent then I’m going to add back the bulk sausage and one whole carton of chicken br off which is about 4

Cups bring your heat up to high cuz we want to get this up to a nice simmer and of course we’re going to season this with salt and pepper to Taste when the soup comes up to a simmer you could add your B bacon in and then 2 cups of roughly chopped cauliflower as well as 2 cups of chopped kale if you don’t like kale you can substitute it with spinach but you’ll need to double

It to almost four cups because it’s just not as bulky as kale then you’re going to want to add 1 cup of water and one heaping tablespoon of the better than bullion reduced sodium chicken base now this is where you would add your beans and pasta you can use

Cantalini beans or navy beans drain those completely and then add the whole can as well as one cup of short green pasta like deini put your lid on and when it comes up to a boil you want to lower your heat to medium low place your

Cover back on and then simmer the soup for about 15 to 20 minutes until the pasta is cooked to Al Dente and your veggie these are tender then lastly you’re going to add 1 cup of heavy cream to your pot then you can shut the heat off and stir the cream

In your soup is Done I’ll just plate some up for you take a look at that this really is a delicious soup what makes it even better is if you add some freshly grated Parmesan cheese right on top if you like it spicier you can add some more red pepper flake or even some cracked black

Pepper either way it’s going to be Delicious well there you have it folks Italian sausage soup I hope you guys try and enjoy the recipe and you know what to do like share subscribe and hit that notification Bell so you don’t miss out on anything and as always guys until next time bye