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Tuscan White Bean and Sausage Soup
Created by Chef Dean
A robust one-pot meal from the Tuscan hills: bronzed sausage, creamy cannellini beans, and tender greens swimming in a garlic-perfumed broth that tastes like it simmered all day but comes together in under an hour.
This soup represents everything I love about Italian peasant cooking. It wastes nothing. It forgives much. It rewards patience with flavors far greater than its humble ingredients suggest. Tuscan farmers have been making variations of this dish for centuries, stretching whatever meat they had with beans and whatever greens grew in the garden.
The secret lives in building layers. You'll brown the sausage first, rendering its fat and creating fond on the bottom of your pot. That fond becomes the foundation. The aromatics soften in the sausage drippings. The beans contribute their starchy cooking liquid. By the time you've finished, you'll have a broth with body and depth that no canned stock could match.
I've taught this soup to nervous cooks who swore they couldn't make anything from scratch. Every one of them left with confidence. The technique is forgiving. The ingredients are accessible. And the result is a pot of soup that makes people ask for the recipe before they've finished their bowl.
Ingredients
sweet Italian sausage
Quantity
1 1/2 pounds
casings removed
extra-virgin olive oil
Quantity
2 tablespoons, plus more for finishing
yellow onion
Quantity
1 large
diced
| Ingredient | Quantity |
|---|---|
| sweet Italian sausagecasings removed | 1 1/2 pounds |
| extra-virgin olive oil | 2 tablespoons, plus more for finishing |
| yellow oniondiced | 1 large |
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