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Sausage: Hearty Rice & Sausage Soup

Source of Recipe

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List of Ingredients

1 pound turkey sausage or bulk pork sausage
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup coarsely chopped green sweet pepper
1 clove garlic -- minced
1 14 1/2 ounce mexican-style stewed tomatoes
2 cups water
1 10 1/2 ounce condensed beef broth
1/2 6 ounce can tomato paste -- (1/3 cup)
1/2 teaspoon chili powder
1/3 cup quick-cooking rice
1 medium zucchini -- halved lengthwise
and sliced 1/4-inch thick
dairy sour cream -- optional
broken tortilla chips -- optional


Recipe

In a large saucepan or Dutch oven cook sausage, onion, green pepper, and garlic till onion is tender and sausage is brown. Drain off fat. Cut up any large v vegetables in stewed tomatoes. Stir in undrained tomatoes, water, beef broth, tomato paste, and chili powder into sausage mixture. Bring just to boiling; reduce heat. Add uncooked rice; cover and simmer for 5 minutes. Add zucchini and cook 5 minutes more or till rice and zucchini are tender. To serve, top each serving with, our cream and tortilla chips, if you like. Makes 4 main-dish servings.