Everyone slurps up the excellent soup that was made by my husband’s uncle. It tastes great when paired with crusty French bread! We prefer our food spicy, so you might not need as much cayenne pepper as the recipe specifies.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 40 mins |
| Total Time: | 55 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 12 servings |
Ingredients
- 2 cloves garlic, peeled
- ½ red onion
- 1 pound ground Italian sausage
- 10 large russet potatoes, peeled and cubed
- seasoning salt to taste
- ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon cayenne pepper, or to taste
- 1 (12 fluid ounce) can evaporated milk
- ¼ cup butter
- 1 teaspoon dried parsley
Instructions
- In a blender or food processor, puree garlic and onion. Heat garlic and onion puree with Italian sausage in a skillet over medium heat. Cook until sausage is no longer pink.
- Transfer the sausage mixture to a large soup pot. Add potatoes and water to cover. Stir in the seasoned salt, black pepper and cayenne pepper to taste. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat and cook until potatoes are tender. when potatoes are done, stir in the butter, evaporated milk and parsley. Cook long enough for the butter to melt. Serve hot with bread or crackers.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 448 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 58 g |
| Cholesterol | 48 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 7 g |
| Protein | 14 g |
| Saturated Fat | 8 g |
| Sodium | 356 mg |
| Sugars | 6 g |
| Fat | 18 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
This soup is awesome. My husband loves it and I make it as recipe is written. I get spicy Italian sausage and add a tad bit more of cayenne because we are spicy. It is even better with garlic French bread for dipping.
Made as noted but did cut the cayenne back to 2 teaspoons. Aplenty hot for us. Great soup.
Love it. I cut down on the Chyanne and added a cup of chicken broth and 4 cups of water. The recipe did not specify how much water so I merely covered the potatoes and sausage
This is an amazing delicious soup, I made it exactly only just one teaspoon of cayenne pepper and had to simmer down milk to make the evaporated milk .I cooked bacon and crumbled it as a garnish.
I use turkey sausage, have also used turkey brats (jenno’s)minced garlic when cooking sausage, onion flakes instead of red onion. one less clean thing to clean up. :). I also add kale or spinich.
Very good i did add carrots and an acorn squash to up the vegetables!
Not bad, a little too spicy and rich for me even with no cayenne. Next time I’ll use a milder sausage or something a little less greasy. We added some mashed potatoes (courtesy of Bob Evans) to thicken it up and balance out the spice a little. we were a little short on “real” potatoes and only had red ones. Mashed definitely improved the flavor. We also added a bit of chicken stock just to finish some off that we had in the fridge. We’d make another batch if in the right mood. We had plenty left of this batch to freeze half of it for later.
My family loved this. My only advice is less Cayenne. I added 2tsps and it was still a bit much. We like heat and spice in our foods, but I’d definitely go down to 1 or 1 and a half teaspoons. Otherwise a great recipe! I also added carrots and celery, which was a lovely addition. I highly recommend this to anyone interested in a new, delicious meal.
The only changes i made was not using a food processor because mine broke and used whole milk instead of evaporated milk, then I used a hand mixer at the end to chop up some the the potatoes and thicken up the liquid. will make again, maybe adding some leftover mashed potatoes or instant potatoes
Very good soup. I used Turkey Sausage, skipped the parsley & added broccoli and it turned out great.
Made this as directed except combined with Direction #3 from Absolutely Ultimate potato Soup by Karena. I wasn’t sure the original recipe was going to be a thick soup, so that is why I combined recipes. Turned out absolutely perfect!Used the frozen white onions instead of a red (didnt have ), and used jenny-o sweet italian turkey sausage. My husband added it to his “favorite recipes” list hanging on the fridge!!!!
absolutely delicious! I used half water half chicken broth when boling the potatoes. Other than using a white onion instead of red, I changed nothing else and it was perfect! my bf brought containers to the office ladies at work!
YUM!!! I only had hot italian sausage so used that. Not to spicy and everyone loved it. The only thing I’m going to change next time is cooking the sausage, DRAINING it and then adding the puree.
Made this and it came out OK, but broth was a bit to watery. Ended up adding a can of cream of mushroom to help boost the flavor. If I did it again would substitute 2 cups of beef stock for some of the water.
My family liked this. My husband likes spicier foods, so it was good for him, but it wasn’t too spicy that my kids wouldn’t eat it.
I just finished making this recipe and all I can say is wow! I made it “as is” except for cutting back on the cayenne a bit. It was a new twist on potato soup and the whole family raved. Thanks for a new staple in my house. Update: I found that putting some of the cooked potatoes in the blender and adding them to the soup made for a thicker base!
We really like this. If you want it to be spicy, you probably have to add more cayenne.
Didn’t love this one at all. It was pretty peppery, and the sausage didn’t add anything for me.
I really liked this! It’s very simmilar to Olive Garden’s soup. Omitted the cayenne, because using hot Italian sausage added plenty of heat. Left the skin on about half of the potatoes, used broth instead of water, added a little chopped carrot, celery, and spinach. Pushed a potato masher through it a couple times to thicken it up. The only reason I’m not giving it 5 stars is because my husband didn’t like it, so I probably won’t make it again.
This is really comparable to Zuppa Toscana. Where are the water measurements? I used chicken broth anyways, but that would be helpful. Tasted good anyways.
Loved this soup. Perfect meal for a chilly spring day. I did not have any Italian Sausage, so used regular sausage meat and added some Italian spices to the soup. Both my husband and I love it and will serve it often.