Bertucci's Sausage Soup Recipe

Bertucci’s sausage soup is special in itself because of the major nutrients it carries when made in beef broth. The sausages are perfectly cleaned and fried and then simmered in the beef for flavor. Moreover, the soup gets thickened after simmering and retains all the essential nutrients in it.

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The recipe is super easy for making a perfect Bertucci’s Sausage soup at home. You have to add the ingredients one by one and simmer all of them together. Your soup will be ready in about half an hour.

Peeling the Sausage

Bring the sausage and use the knife to clean it. Then peel the sausage and use the same sharp knife to dice or chop the sausage. Once the sausage is chopped, the next step is to fry it in the cooking pot.

Frying up the Sausage

Put the chopped sausage in a cooking pot and fry it along with the diced onions. These will be stir-fried and changes color to brown one. Once both of them are fried pour the broth.

Pouring the Beef or Chicken Broth

Pour the broth of your choice. I usually prefer beef broth so pour the beef broth into the fried sausage and let the sausage simmer in the boiled broth for some time. This simmering will also allow the broth to get thicker. As long as the broth is simmered, the soup gets yummier.

Serving the Soup

The soup is served after adding the spices. You can use additional spices if you like your soup to be spicy but the authentic soup recipe does not give a spicy soup which is why I only use salt and pepper for the basic flavor. After sprinkling and melting the cheese at the top, the soup is served in the serving bowls.

Why do we add tomatoes to the soup?

Tomatoes added to the soup after adding the broth are essential in this recipe for the actual flavor of the soup. The tomatoes added to the same boosts up the nutrition level and the flavor of the whole soup and the soup would not be the same if you skip the addition of tomatoes.

Nutritional Importance of Sausage Soup

This Bertucci sausage soup is super delicious to be served on a winter evening or on cozy nights. It gives immense relief to your body and also gives long-term health benefits as it contains all the essential nutrients for making the body healthy.

It boosts our immune system and also improves digestion. It provides vitamins to the body and what else you need to get out of bed and do some work in the winter days other than this yummiest Bertucci’s Sausage soup.

INGREDIENTS

2/3 cup shredded Mozzarella Cheese
1 cup uncooked White Rice
Salt to taste
Freshly grounded black pepper to taste
1/2 onion peeled and diced
6 sweet Italian Sausages
14 cups Beef or Chicken Stock
1 cup Chunky Italian Plum Tomatoes
1/2 pound Spinach Cleaned and destemmed

Method to make Bertucci’s Sausage Soup

Firstly you have to prep for the recipe. Bring the sausages and then clean them by removing their skins. Once these are cleaned and the skin is removed, you should chop them.
Take a cooking pot and then put the chopped sausages into this pot. Turn on the heat on the stove and let cook.
Bring the onions and dice them. Finely diced onions then should be thrown into the cooking pot along with the sausages.
Continue frying both of them together and make sure you have not added any sort of oil or butter in it. The mixture is completely dried.
Bring the beef or chicken stock and pour it into the cooking pot. Stir well. Boil the mixture and then let it simmer for some time to develop the flavors in it.
In the next step, you must add the rice to the simmering broth. Once the rice is added you should add the tomatoes at the same time.
This will take a simmering of almost 20 minutes. Bring the spinach and add this fresh spinach to the cooking pot in which the whole mixture is already simmering.
Sprinkle the essential spices including salt and pepper. Stir well so that it will be settled properly.
Once the soup gets the required color and texture, you should turn off the heat and let it air cool.
Bring the shredded mozzarella cheese to the top of your cooked sausage mixture.
Serve hot after sprinkling the cheese.

Conclusion

You should make this easiest soup more often. It is not specific to make it in winter. You can even make it in the summer for good energetic days. To go through a long hectic working day, you must own this recipe so that there will be more ease in your life.

The cheese-topped white rice cooked soup is so worth it to even serve to the guests as they would surely fall in love with the soup and will definitely ask you for the perfect and exact recipe so that they can try out the soup with their own hands.

FAQs?

Do we fry the sausage in butter or oil?

No butter or oil is added to the pot while frying the sausage. Sausage is fried individually and then the diced onions are added to it but you cannot add any liquid for frying it.

Do we add chicken broth to the sausage soup?

It all depends on your own choice. You can either add the beef broth or the chicken broth to your soup. Some people mostly add beef broth to make the soup even more healthy.

Is it okay to sprinkle cheese over the cooked soup?

Sprinkle the shredded cheese just before turning off the heat. The cheese will start melting remove it from the heat and serve your soup while hot.

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