Recipe: Delicious Italian stretch soup!

Italian stretch soup!. Great recipe for Italian stretch soup!. I came up with this because I had different little bits of left overs on hand and not really enough to make any one thing. My husband had made corned beef and cabbage the night before so I decided soup was on the menu.

In some regions of Italy, such as Veneto, soup is eaten more than pasta. If possible use fresh vegetables and herbs from the garden. A large batch of traditional Italian Wedding soup. You can have Italian stretch soup! using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Italian stretch soup!

1. You need 5 of strips bacon keep the bacon grease..
2. It's 6 of sausage links( casings removed).
3. It's 1 cup of hamburger( cooked) can cook with the pork I just had already cooked burger left over..
4. Prepare 3/4 of onion, chopped.
5. You need 1 of lg. mushroom (sliced).
6. You need 1/2 of head cabbage ,chopped(red is what i had great flavor nice surprise).
7. You need 2 tbsp of garlic.
8. Prepare 1 tbsp of Italian herbs.
9. It's 1/2 gallon of more or less to liking stock of choice( I had stock from corned beef and cabbage left ).
10. You need 3 of potatoes.
11. Prepare 4 of carrots.
12. You need 2 tbsp of butter/ and or coconut oil.

I'm not sure where the name of this soup originated, but my aunt in Pennsylvania shared the recipe with me. Even in our hot Florida climate, this soup always satisfies. Family and friends frequently ask me to prepare it. —Nancy Ducharme, Deltona, Florida Sometimes, a simple chicken noodle soup or pureed veggie soup just doesn't cut it. And when those times arise, the best way to step up your soup is by making a classic Italian soup.

Italian stretch soup! step by step

1. Use a stock pot thin enough you can sauté in. If you don't have one a sauté pan/ fry pan works too..
2. Cook up the bacon till crisp enough to crumble but not loose flavor in stock pot. Set aside just to cool then crumble. Put back into stock pot along with the bacon fat..
3. Add butter and or oil, onion, and mushroom. Sauté till onion is caramelized. I used the butter and bacon fat for flavor and added coconut oil cuz there was a lot to sauté and didn't want to add more fat..
4. Add Italian herbs sauté a couple minutes add in hamburger and sausage. Cook till most all pink is gone. Add garlic . Sauté another min. Add cabbage..
5. Once cabbage is tender add carrots potatoes and stock..
6. Cook till veggies are all tender add salt and pepper to taste..

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