Low carb Zuppa Toscana – I never eat at Olive Garden, but this is a pretty popular soup recipe I’d seen all over the…
Low carb Zuppa Toscana – I never eat at Olive Garden, but this is a pretty popular soup recipe I’d seen all over the interwebs for years. I had an abundance of ingredients I wanted to use and make a nice soup, so I whipped this up.
In a heavy pot, I browned Italian sausage with some garlic and onion. Then I added 6 cups of water with 4 teaspoons chicken boulion, some basil & oregano and red pepper. Instead of potatoes the original soup has, I diced the hard white stems/core of one cauliflower, plus chopped the leaves, which is the greens (reserved the florets for another use) and added that all to the pot, covered it and let it go on a medium simmer about 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, I stirred and tasted it for seasoning and added a bit more salt, added some heavy cream to finish (about 1/2 cup, shaken in a jar with 1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum to thicken), and whisked it in well to thicken. Then I turned the heat down and simmered another 10 minutes, uncovered. Turned out nice.
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That looks delicious. I would have never thought of replacing potatoes with cauliflower stems. Brilliant!
The tougher parts of cauliflower that most people don’t prefer to use taste just like the florets, but have a bit more tooth to them, almost like a potato 🙂 So I figured, why not? As for the cauliflower greens, I didn’t have any kale and really don’t care much for it (except in chip form), so I used those instead. If I make this again, I’ll use collards and/or spinach, because even though it’s a great-tasting dish, I think it needs a different type of green veg to amp it up a bit.
Yep, I can guess that despite the sausages it was very cauliflowery ?
But everything was edible, so why not?! ??
Right! I’m sure you’d like it, if you enjoy cauliflower.
It’s the only time I like kale.
Just made some similar ‘zuppa’ last week, hadn’t thought of using cauliflower stem for the potato.
Tasted even better the next day!
It always does! The red pepper comes through.
That’s the only thing I would eat when forced to go to Olive Garden by old people. Sometimes the old people wanted to go to Applebee’s (yech) but I could bargain ’em down to Olive Garden and eat this.
I don’t like kale except in this soup.
Lol Applebee’s is just OK but they know how to grill a thick pork chop (amazing) and I just get broccoli on the side w/all the “loaded baked potato” toppings (no potato). Other than Applebee’s, I haven’t eaten out in quite awhile and don’t really do it unless it’s for an event