I love a hearty meal in a pot, and soup is a great place to pack a wide variety of colorful vegetables. This hearty, vegetable-filled soup with Italian sausage is a nice change from the usual, and one I make whenever the weather is cool enough.
This year’s goal: Freeze garden squash (which is always plentiful) so you can make this soup year-round, keeping it local and organic (on the cheap!).
Hearty Italian sausage soup loaded with vegetables
Foods that can be cooked and served in one dish are my favorite. Soups are usually this type of food. (Do a happy dance for fewer dishes!) The key to getting any one-pot meal is to pack in lots of veggies and a good protein.
For the vegetables in this soup, I use zucchini and yellow squash from the garden, because I always have more of these than I know what to do with! I also add canned Italian stewed carrots and tomatoes. Finally, I throw in some fresh spinach right at the end. If this combination doesn’t appeal to you, you can absolutely change some of them, but my crew loves it.
If I’m feeling ambitious and don’t mind a few more dishes because I didn’t make a huge mess preparing dinner, my coconut flour crackers go really well with this soup.
Hearty Italian Sausage Soup Recipe
One of our favorites, a colorful soup with Italian sausage and bone broth.
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In a large pot, brown the sausage until almost cooked.
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While it’s cooking, mince the garlic, slice the carrots and zucchini and yellow squash.
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Add the minced garlic to the sausage and cook for another minute.
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Stir in the broth, tomatoes and carrots.
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Boil for 15 minutes.
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Add the zucchini, yellow squash, black pepper and onion salt and simmer for another 10-15 minutes.
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Turn off the burner and add the spinach.
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Stir and wait 5 minutes for the spinach to wilt.
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Serve and enjoy!
Nutrition facts
Hearty Italian Sausage Soup Recipe
Amount per serving (2 cups)
Calories 564
Calories from fat 234
% daily value*
Fat 26 g40%
Saturated fat 9 g56%
Cholesterol 57 mg19%
Sodium 3027 mg132%
Potassium 2522 mg72%
Carbohydrates 67 g22%
Fiber 11 g46%
sugar 37 g41%
Protein 27 g54%
Vitamin A 6161IU123%
Vitamin C 95 mg115%
Calcium 379 mg38%
Iron 15 mg83%
* Percent daily values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
If your family likes a little heat, try using spicy Italian sausage! Also, feel free to vary the vegetables based on personal preference.
More One-Pot Suggestions
If you need more one pot meal ideas or just really love soup, try some of these. If it’s an Instant Pot recipe and you don’t have one, it’s usually pretty easy to adapt it to the stovetop by just covering and boiling until tender.
Food in a pot
soups
Side note: This post about the pumpkin surplus cracked me up!
Do you have a favorite soup recipe? I’d love to hear about it below.
