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Roasted Garlic and Potato Soup with Sausage and Kale

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Step up your lunch game with this easy and nutritious roasted garlic and potato soup with sausage and kale!Step up your lunch game with this easy and nutritious recipe for roasted garlic and potato soup with sausage and kale. 

This post is sponsored by the United States Potato Board.

This recipe is lunch made simple. Make it the weekend before and refrigerate for the rest of the week! While roasted garlic, sausage, and kale make up a large portion of this soup, potato is the star. It adds texture and comfort in one simple bowl of soup!

One thing that I have found very difficult to adapt to ever since I started working from home is making sure to eat during the day. I know this sounds completely off the wall, but I’m completely serious. When you go off to work every day, there is a schedule to keep to. You get to work at say 8-9 am. You have lunch at say 12-1 pm. You work until 4-5 and then you go home. Pretty simple concept right? Well, working from home caught me by surprise. I would seriously go for 8 hours straight sitting in my home office, eating absolutely nothing. This became a problem. I became cranky, like really cranky. It wasn’t until early last year that I started keeping to a strict schedule. Starting work by 9 am, taking breaks throughout the day, taking a half hour for lunch, and stepping out of my office by 6 pm. I forced myself to step away from work completely at night, and you guys, I have never looked back.

I think it is so important to keep yourself on track, whether it is food-related or not, and lunch is just as important as every other meal of the day. It’s a time of day to take for yourself. Regroup. You get it. Right? One mistake I always made when working a 9 to 5er was going out for lunch. Seriously, I spent so much money on lunch and it was absolutely ridiculous. It is so simple to make yourself a good and hearty lunch, that you can look forward to. This is where this roasted garlic and potato soup steps in.

Step up your lunch game with this easy and nutritious roasted garlic and potato soup with sausage and kale!

This soup is comfort in a bowl, you guys, but it doesn’t lack in nutrition. It’s the perfect soup to make over the weekend, refrigerate and portion out for the week ahead. It doesn’t take very much work or time and it will seriously fill you up when you most need it: at lunchtime. While sausage, kale and garlic play a very important role in this super delicious soup, the potato is by far the star of the show.

Whether it’s russet, Yukon gold, or red, Zach and I eat potatoes ALL-THE-TIME. They are such a versatile vegetable that can be used in so many different ways. In the case for this soup, the potato acts two ways. It adds a certain heartiness from the chunks of potato, but it also adds a certain amount of creaminess. The pureed potato in this soup adds a creaminess that you would otherwise get from 2-3 cups of heavy cream. It also is a natural thickener, which is a double bonus in my book!

So instead of heading out to lunch everyday, make it a New Year’s resolution and try to start bringing your lunch instead. It’s so much better (and cheaper) for you! I hope you guys enjoy this roasted garlic and potato soup. It’s one of those soups that Zach and I make multiple times of year!

Step up your lunch game with this easy and nutritious roasted garlic and potato soup with sausage and kale!

Step up your lunch game with this easy and nutritious roasted garlic and potato soup with sausage and kale!

Roasted Garlic and Potato Soup with Sausage and Kale

Servings:

12

Nutritional information is only an estimate. The accuracy of the nutritional information for any recipe on this site is not guaranteed.

Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 45 minutes

Ingredients
  

  • 1 head of garlic
  • 1 pound loose sweet Italian sausage
  • 2 tablespoons vegetable or canola oil
  • 1 medium yellow onion diced
  • 3 large carrots peeled and diced
  • 2 stalks of celery diced
  • 6 cups chicken broth or stock
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 2 pounds Yukon gold potatoes peeled and chopped into 1-inch pieces
  • salt and black pepper
  • 1 tablespoon Italian seasoning
  • 1/2 cup half and half heavy cream, milk, or other milk alternative
  • 3 cups chopped kale
  • 2 tablespoons fresh parsley

Instructions
 

  • Preheat your oven to 450 degrees F. Chop the bottom off of the head of garlic so that the cloves are exposed. Place the garlic (exposed side-up) into a mold of a regular-sized muffin tin. Cover loosely with foil and place it in the oven. Roast the garlic for about 45 minutes or until fragrant and browned slightly. Remove from oven and let cool. Once cool enough to handle, release the cloves from the head by pressing firmly on the top. Set aside.
  • In a large pot or dutch oven, add the sausage. Heat over medium heat and cook until browned and cooked through. Remove the sausage with a slotted spoon and transfer to a plate, leaving the fat behind. Add the oil to the pan only if you find there is not enough fat left over from the sausage. Add the onion, carrots and celery. Cook until the veggies are tender, about 7-8 minutes. Pour in the chicken broth and add the cubed potatoes. Season generously with salt, black pepper and Italian seasoning. Bring the soup to a boil and then reduce to a heavy simmer. Cook until the potatoes are tender, about 20 minutes. Add roasted garlic cloves to the pot. Turn the heat off and discard the bay leaf. With your immersion blender (alternatively you may use a regular blender - see below), blend the soup until about half of the soup is pureed. You will still want some larger chunks of potato and veggies remaining. Turn the heat back on to medium and add the already-cooked sausage, half and half (or substitute) and the kale. Cook until the kale is wilted substantially, about 6 minutes. Adjust the seasoning to taste and remove from heat.
  • Serve the soup immediately garnished with fresh parsley. The soup is best served next day or throughout the week for a quick lunch!

Step up your lunch game with this easy and nutritious roasted garlic and potato soup with sausage and kale!

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13 Responses

  1. This soup looks thick and warming and absolutely delicious. I too forget to eat during the day and am making a conscious effort to eat lunch. Even if it’s only fruit! Great post and thanks for the reminder that we do need to take care of our bodies. Sammie.

  2. Soup looks delicious, pinned, printed. I can relate to the forgetting to eat. Am home alone all day, a SAHM. Love food, but have gut issues,as in no large intestine, so have to eat small meals. GERD as well. Then was sick for a very long time, think my appetite changed.Anyway,have the opposite problem most 54 year olds have. As in keeping weight on.Not in a good way. Was very self conscious most of my childhood as I got teased. Then I discovered the gym. Anyway, another topic. Will eat lunch for sure when making this soup!

  3. Forgetting to eat is not something that happens for me :) If anything else, I want to eat all day long because there is always food around. This sounds incredible. Eating a hearty and delicious lunch is definitely something that doesn’t always happen when I am home!

  4. I am totally the same! When I used to work out of my home, there was no way in this world I’d have missed a lunch break but now I have to force myself to step away from my computer and grab something. Soup is at the top of my list of favorites for lunch and this one looks incredible!

  5. 5 stars
    This soup is amazing!! I don’t bother putting it in the blender, I just mash with a potato masher and it’s great.

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Hello! I'm Justine.

I’m a blogger and web developer from the beautiful state of Oklahoma, where my loving husband, two adorable kids, and two mischievous dogs keep me on my toes 24/7. My idea of heaven includes endless summer days, getting lost in a good book, and whipping up some delicious homemade bread.

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