Sausage Minestrone with Cheesy Toasts
A vegetable soup filled with sausage and topped with toasts covered in melted cheese.
Ingredients
- 1 pound sweet pork sausage
- 1 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
- 2 cups each sliced carrots, cabbage, and leeks
- 1 cup chopped celery
- 2 tbsp. chopped garlic
- 4 cups hot chicken stock
- 2 cups cooked chickpeas
- 4 slices French baguette
- 1 cup shredded mozzarella
- ½ cup grated Parmesan cheese
- ¼ cup minced parsley
- ½ tsp. red pepper flakes
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
- In a Dutch oven cook the sausage in the oil on low heat until it's no longer pink.
- Add the leeks, celery, carrots, cabbage, and garlic and cook for ten minutes on medium heat.
- Add the chickpeas and chicken stock and cook for five minutes.
- Meanwhile, top the bread slices with the mozzarella cheese and toast in the oven for a few minutes, until the cheese is bubbly.
- Top each bowl of soup with the cheesy bread, red pepper flakes, parsley and Parmesan cheese.
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