Spicy Sausage Lentil & Kale Soup

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This Spicy Sausage Lentil and Kale Soup is protein-packed and full of vegetables. Make a batch to enjoy for dinner or pack it for lunch all week!

 

This Spicy Sausage Lentil and Kale Soup is protein-packed and full of vegetables. Make a batch to enjoy for dinner or pack it for lunch all week!

*Photo updated 9/2016*

Hi Friends!

I have a soup recipe to share with you today. The title is a bit misleading because I actually didn’t use spicy sausage, I just made the soup spicy. However, you could use spicy sausage if you wanted to!

Make a big pot of this Spicy Sausage, Lentil and Kale Soup and enjoy it for lunch all week long!

This soup isn’t much to look at…but it tastes great! I made this at the request of Katie, who asked me a few weeks ago to come up with a recipe for sausage & lentil soup! I love making my readers happy, so I got to work. I made my version extra spicy & hubby and I both loved it! You can easily sub spinach for kale if you’d like!

Here’s the recipe:

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Spicy Sausage, Lentil & Kale Soup

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  • Author: Lindsay L
  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Cook Time: 30 minutes
  • Total Time: 40 minutes
  • Yield: 4 1x
  • Category: Soup

Ingredients

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  • 1 c carrots, chopped
  • 1 c red peppers, chopped
  • 1 c sweet potato, diced
  • 3 clove garlic, minced
  • 1 leek, diced
  • 2 chicken sausages, sliced
  • 2 c cooked lentils
  • 4 c low-sodium chicken broth
  • 1 can no-salt-added diced tomatoes
  • 1 tsp paprika
  • 1 tsp cumin
  • 1–2 tsp cayenne pepper, to taste
  • black pepper, to taste
  • 3 cups chopped kale

Instructions

  1. In a large pot, saute garlic, leeks, carrots, peppers and sweet potato over medium heat for 10 minutes.
  2. Add the sausage, lentils, broth, tomatoes and spices.
  3. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer until veggies reach desired tenderness (15-20 min).
  4. Stir in kale, let simmer an additional 5 minutes.
  5. Serve warm.

Notes

To make this vegetarian/vegan, use veggie broth, leave out the sausage and add your favorite beans or tofu!
Use whatever veggies are your favorite if you don’t like the ones I used.
You could use spinach or any other leafy greens instead of kale.
Pretty simple, right? Like I mention in the notes, this soup is easy to customize. Use your favorite veggies or whatever you have on hand…Add some beans instead of lentils…you get the idea! I used spinach & mozzarella chicken sausages from Meijer but any kind of sausage should work.

 
 

Enjoy!
–Lindsay–

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  1. Oh yay. I get super excited with all the soup recipes popping up now. I literally have eaten soup for Dinner every single day for the past 5 days. I can’t help myself, they are just so delicious when it’s cold out.
    This one looks amazing….especially because it has my favorite kale:)

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  15. Crazy, but I totally made a variation of this over the weekend! I used spinach instead of kale and added turkey sausage at the end cuz I thought it was missing something.
    This looks amazing as well though. Definitely gonna try it the next time I’m craving lentils 😀



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