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Sausage and Potato Soup

This soup will become an easy, hearty staple your family will love! Filling and bursting with flavor, you have to give it a try.
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Servings 4 people

Ingredients
  

  • 1 onion chopped
  • 1 clove garlic minced
  • 1 pound sausage
  • 2 large potatoes or four small potatoes - chopped
  • 2 pints beef broth
  • 2 tsp smoked sweet paprika
  • 1/4 cup whole milk or heavy cream
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/4 tsp pepper

Instructions
 

  • Brown sausage, remove and leave some fat to sauté onions and garlic in.
  • Sauté onions and garlic until translucent and fragrant.
  • Add paprika, salt and pepper to the onions and garlic.
  • Add a splash of broth and deglaze the bottom before adding the rest of the broth.
  • Put chopped potatoes into the broth, cover and let simmer for 10-15 minutes, until the potatoes are tender.
  • After the potatoes are tender, add the milk and let simmer until desired consistency is reached.

Alternative method using ham and mashed potatoes

  • Sauté onions and garlic in butter until translucent and fragrant.
  • Add paprika, salt and pepper to the onions and garlic.
  • Add a splash of broth and deglaze the bottom before adding the rest of the broth.
  • Roughly one cup of mashed potatoes will work well. Whisk that into the broth.
  • Add the milk and ham and let the soup simmer until desired consistency is reached.
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