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Zuppa Toscana Soup
Olive Garden copy cat
by: Kim Schonefeld
Ingredients
Makes 7 Quarts
1 lb Italian Sausage
1 lb Hamburger
1 yellow onion (diced)
10 medium potatoes (cubed)
1 lb bacon (cut into small pieces)
3-1/2 tsp.minced garlic
7 quarts chicken stock
Directions
Have 7 quart jars sterile and ready with lids and rings. Place sausage, hamburger, cut up bacon, and diced onion in a large skillet. Brown, crumble and place on paper towels to drain.
Place diced potatoes equally into jars raw add 1/2 tsp. garlic to each jar. In large stock pot heat your chicken broth to boiling.
Spoon the cooked sausage, hamburger, bacon ,onion mixture equally into each jar. Fill jars leaving 1" head space with boiling chicken broth.
Wipe rims well, add lids and rings, Process 90 minutes at 10 lbs for quarts 75 minutes pints.
Add tag to jar with directions: When opening to serve add 1/2 -3/4 cup chopped kale or spinach to boiling soup for 3 minutes. lower to simmer add 1/2 cup of half and half or cream. Enjoy!
I've made this a couple of times. I substituted 4 or 5 cans of different types of beans --black, garbonzo, kidney, etc, for the potates and it was awesome!!!
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