Sweet potato minestrone with turkey sausage
7 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| ½ | pounds | Smoked turkey sausage; cut in 1/4\" slices |
| 1 | cup | Diced onion |
| 1 | cup | Diced carrot |
| ¾ | cup | Thinly sliced celery |
| 3 | cups | Water |
| 3 | cups | Diced peeled sweet potato |
| 1 | teaspoon | Dried oregano |
| ½ | teaspoon | Coarsely ground pepper |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Salt |
| 29 | ounces | No-salt-added whole tomatoes; canned, undrained and coarsely chopped |
| 15 | ounces | Great northern beans; canned, rinsed and drained |
| 8 | cups | Coarsely chopped spinach |
Directions
1. Combine first 4 ingredients in a Dutch oven over medium-high heat; saute 7 minutes or until sausage is browned.
2. Add water and next 6 ingredients (water through beans). Bring to a boil; cover, reduce heat, and simmer 30 minutes or until vegetables are tender.
Stir in spinach; cook an additional 2 minutes.
Yield: 7 servings (serving size: 1-½ cups).: PER SERVING -CALORIES 221; FAT 7.3g; PROTEIN 12.1g; CARBOHYDRATES 29.3g; FIBER 6.3g; CHOLESTEROL 0mg; IRON 4.2mg; SODIUM 525mg; CALCIUM 189mg. each serving provides 16,973 IUs vitamin A and 48mg vitamin C.
Copyright sources: 1997.COOKING LIGHT 1997. FAMILY.COM For variation: see "Sweet Potato Minestrone" >eat-lf Archive Jan-98 Recipe by: Cooking light and Family.com Posted to Digest eat-lf.v097.n026 by KitPATh <phannema@...> on Jan 22, 1998