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Great recipe for Italian Lentil Soup with Hot Sausage and Escarole. It's a very old recipe from my mother and her mother before her, but slightly updated by me. It's all the sausage you'd have in the original, but minus all the trouble of packing it into a pig intestine first.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have italian lentil soup with hot sausage and escarole using 16 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Italian Lentil Soup with Hot Sausage and Escarole:

1. Prepare 2 tbsp olive oil, extra virgin
2. Get 1 large onion, chopped
3. Prepare 1 tbsp salt
4. Make ready 4 clove garlic, minced
5. Take 1 1/2 lb ground pork
6. Get 1 tbsp Italian red pepper flakes
7. Prepare 1 tbsp fennel seeds
8. Take 1 tbsp granulated garlic
9. Prepare 1 can 28oz. whole peeled tomatoes in tomato juice
10. Get 5 large potatoes, diced
11. Take 1 lb lentils, rinsed
12. Get 10 cup water
13. Get 1/4 cup Provolone cheese, grated
14. Make ready 1/4 cup pecorino Romano cheese, grated
15. Get 1 bunch escarole, torn up
16. Take 1 1/2 cup ditalini

Add the garlic and red pepper flakes. Increase the heat to medium high, add the broth, water, tomatoes, lentil, Parmesan rind & bay leaves and bring to a boil. This soup is a copycat version of Carrabba's Spicy Sausage Lentil soup! It's loaded with hot Italian sausage, lentils, ham, veggies and is totally delicious!

Instructions to make Italian Lentil Soup with Hot Sausage and Escarole:

1. Heat the oil with the onions and salt on low heat in an 8qt pressure cooker.
2. After a few minutes, toss in the garlic, and heat until the onions start to soften
3. Toss in the pork with the red pepper flakes, granulated garlic, and fennel seeds.
4. When the onions are very translucent, and the pork is cooked through, add the can of tomatoes. Turn the heat up to medium high, and stir frequently, ensuring there is enough liquid on the bottom to keep everything from sticking.
5. When the tomatoes are really soft from cooking, mash them up into itty bitty blobs, stir, taste, and adjust this base as needed.
6. Add the potatoes and lentils and stir.
7. Fill the pressure cooker up with the water to a bit over 2/3 of the pot, seal, turn the heat to high, and bring to pressure.
8. Keep it at pressure 10 minutes, remove from heat, and then, 10 minutes later, cool the pot to unseal.
9. Stir to break up the lentils a bit, and then add the Provolone and Romano cheeses. Stir again, taste, and adjust the salt, red pepper, and fennel, as desired.
10. Return the open pot to low heat and add the escarole. Stir it a bit to incorporate.
11. In a separate saucepan, boil the ditalini with a dash of salt until al dente.
12. Strain the ditalini and incorporate it into the soup. Stir, taste, adjust as needed, and serve.

We love soup, especially if it involves lentil, like Tuscan lentil soup, Instant Pot smoked sausage and lentil soup or easy vegetable lentil soup! This is a classic, simple version of an Italian comfort food. Add some shaved Parmesan cheese, a crusty baguette and a nice glass of Chianti. Include binge-watching episodes of Montalbano and this Sicilian girl is in heaven on a Winter's night. Making the Italian Sausage & Lentil soup is easy.

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