a hearty white bean soup flavored with hot sausage and greens. Delicious and simple to prepare on a chilly winter day. It will still taste good if you use another sausage, an onion in place of the shallots, and other greens in place of the kale.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 1 hr |
| Additional Time: | 8 hrs |
| Total Time: | 9 hrs 15 mins |
| Servings: | 8 |
Ingredients
- 1 cup dry navy beans
- 4 cups water
- 1 large bunch kale, rinsed, stemmed and chopped
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 pound spicy linguica sausage, sliced
- 1 cup chopped shallots
- 4 cups chicken broth, divided
- salt and pepper to taste
- ½ teaspoon hot sauce, or to taste
Instructions
- Place beans into a large container and cover with several inches of cool water; let stand at room temperature for 8 hours to overnight. Drain and rinse before using.
- Pour 4 cups water into a pressure cooker and add beans. Close the lid and cook until beans are soft, about 25 minutes. Use the natural release method to release pressure. Do not drain.
- Bring a separate pot of salted water to a boil. Cook kale in boiling water until bright green and tender, about 2 minutes. Drain in a strainer and cool under cold running water. Set aside.
- Heat olive oil over medium heat in a large soup pot. Cook linguica sausage in hot oil, stirring occasionally, until browned, about 5 minutes. Remove from the pot with a slotted spoon and set aside.
- Add shallots to the same pot; cook and stir until soft, about 3 minutes. Pour in a splash of chicken broth and scrape up any browned bits of sausage.
- Return sausage to the pot. Add beans and their cooking liquid. Stir in remaining chicken broth. Bring soup to a boil, reduce heat to low, and simmer uncovered for 15 minutes. Add kale and cook for about 4 minutes more. Season with hot sauce, salt, and pepper.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 304 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 21 g |
| Cholesterol | 37 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 5 g |
| Protein | 14 g |
| Saturated Fat | 6 g |
| Sodium | 980 mg |
| Sugars | 4 g |
| Fat | 18 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Used polish kielbasa instead. Sauteed onions, celery, garlic, and red pepper flakes. Added a splash of heavy cream and some stone ground mustard. Topped with parmesan in individual bowls.
Did it all in one pan. I used spicy Italian sausage, a can of pinto and one of black beans. Omitted hot sauce bec already spicy. Didn’t need salt or pepper either. Delish and super easy.
I doubled the recipe & used spicy smoked sausage instead of the linguica. I also added a couple carrots & celery. Turned out great!
Great recipe. I did change up the ingredients a bit. I used white beans and hot Italian sausage. I also added celery, carrots and garlic. The kale I dropped directly into the pot. It turned out great. I will definitely make again.
Yum! I used some spicy sausage made by a local butcher, which was fabulous – no extra hot sauce needed. I also added 1 teaspoon smoked paprika.
It was awesome. Don’t over salt while cooking as the meat releases alot of salt. I also added a second can of beans just to thicken it up and give it more nutrients.
Substituted navy beans for canned white kidney beans, added diced tomatoes with with jalapeños and added sliced baby carrots. Super tasty!
I embarrassed to be one of those who rewrites a recipe but I’m guilty. I did not want soup. It’s summer in Texas but I have to give the writer credit for this combination that I love. I cooked the kale as suggested and drained. I sauted 1/2 onion chpd, 4 cloves of chopped garlic and 3 slices of bacon cooked and chopped. I added the kale into the sauted mixture and then added 2 T of lemon juice, 1 T thyme and 1 tsp of garlic salt. I added 2 can of drained navy beans and simmered. This was really good!
My family and I really enjoyed this soup, really easy and quite inexpensive and my kids ate kale! Yep this has become a regular in our house but I would also make it for company. I have also made it using homemade sausage filling which I had in the freezer from Chef John’s breakfast sausage patty recipe which was just amazing in this soup, it has quite a bit of fennel and orange zest. Of course as sausage is typically a heavily seasoned meat, the type of sausage you use will have a big impact on how this soup turns out, as will the flavor of your broth. If you substitute the sausage for a milder one like keilbasa you might add italian seasoning and a pinch of red pepper flakes or such. Also I am a lazy cook and so I just sauteed the shallots and sausage first and added kale last instead of all the extra taking things out and in.
Necessity is the motherhood of invention right? I only had ground chorizo In the freezer but it made a great soup!!! Actually more like I pot of greens, beans and sausage – deliciousness!
Hit the spot. I was craving something brothy but hearty and elegant. This recipe did it. Added lentils and used ground Italian sausage instead of cased sausage. Needed no additional seasonings. Delicious!
I’ve made this several times. 2 cans of white beans any type work. I like andouille sausage best. Any greens will do. I like chard or kale.
This soup is amazing. I did not put the hot sauce in it, but I did put spicy smoked sausage. I highly recommend it.
Delicious! I like spicy so I used a smokey Jalepeno sausage! I also added potatoes and carrots. I will make this again!
I made this but with lots of changes. I don’t own a pressure cooker so I put the beans in my crock pot with other ingredients. We don’t like leafy vegetables in soup so I used carrots and celery. Essentially I made bean soup with sausage, I used Polish because that is what I had, instead of ham. It was great.
A delightful blend of flavors and textures. I substituted a spicy turkey sausage and turkey broth. My husband devoured the soup – and he’s hard to please.
This soup is soo good! It reminded me of a soup we have in Brazil, called “Caldo Verde”, which came from our Portuguese heritage. I don’t like to have to clean a lot of pans, so I did not follow the instructions exactly. First, I substituted the linguiça for Kielbasa Sausage, because I can’t find it where I live. Then, I used the sautée mode in my Instant Pot to brown the sausage and than added the shallots and cooked until soft. I added some chicken broth and scraped up any browned bits of sausage. I added the rest of the chicken broth and the beans and pressure cooked for 25 minutes. After the natural release, I turned sautée mode on again. I had to add more chicken broth, so next time I’ll start with 6 instead of 4 cups. I added the kale, uncooked, salt and pepper and cooked for about 4 – 5 minutes. I tasted and it was really good already! I decided to add the hot sauce , but I did not find it necessary. Next time, I will start with 6 cups of chicken broth and I will add more beans. This is a really tasty and easy to make soup! I totally recommend!
Made this tonight for dinner and it was so so tasty. I used spicy Italian sausage, added fresh garlic, used onion instead of shallot, and added a bay leaf. I doubled the recipe. A total keeper. My picky eaters gobbled it up.
Fantastic. Add a bit of salt to your liking. So good.
The soup is really good but most of these directions are really unnecessary. I bought the dry beans not knowing I had to let them sit in water for 8 hours, so I just boiled them on the stove until they were as soft as I wanted. It took a while, but not 8 hours!! Also with the kale, I just added it in raw at the end while the soup was simmering. It gets the same effect; I do the same thing when I make zuppa toscana, another great kale soup. I also used kielbasa as the sausage which was fine. Great tasting soup, but yeah, I really don’t know why all of that extra stuff is listed. It could be simplified way more.
I couldnt find the spicy turkey sausage so I used italian sausage instead. We loved it! I ate at TGI Friday’s last night and had the soup again and I noticed that the sausage was not a kielbasa type sausage or even the kind that was suggested in the recipe. It was a ground turkey meat and probably was sausage. The flavor was due to the spices in the sausage I believe. I will continue to try to find the spicy turkey sausage. We will have again and again!