Red Lentil & Italian Sausage Soup

Ingredients

• Homemade Chicken Broth

  4 cup or 400g

• Sprouted Red Lentils

  Blue Mountain Organics

  8 oz or 400g

• Italian turkey sausage

  smoked

  9 serving 2 oz or 504g

• Red potato

  raw, with skin

  3 potato, medium or 639g

• Yellow onion

  sauteed

  ½ cup chopped or 44g

• Red bell pepper

  raw

  1 cup, sliced or 92g

• Olive oil

  1 tbsp or 14g

Directions

1. Heat olive oil in heavy frying pan, add Italian sausage and brown well, breaking sausage into pieces as it cooks. Add sausage to soup pot. In same pan, adding more oil if needed, brown onions until softened and barely starting to brown. Add onions to soup pot. Rinse out pan with 1 cup chicken stock, then add to soup pot along with rest of stock, lentils, ground fennel, thyme, and sage. Cook at lowest possible simmer for about 45 minutes, until lentils are softened, but still holding their shape. Drain red pepper while soup cooks, then chop into pieces about 1/2 inch square. Add red pepper to soup and cook about 45 minutes more, until some lentils are starting to fall apart and all flavors are well blended. Season with salt and fresh ground black pepper and serve hot.