Rachael Rays Hungarian Sausage And Lentil Stoup Recipes

RACHAEL RAY'S HUNGARIAN SAUSAGE AND LENTIL STOUP

Steps:

• In a medium sized pot, simmer lentils in chicken stock.
• In a second pot, sauté sausage in olive oil.
• Add garlic, onions and mushrooms to the sausage. Cook a few minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Add carrots, lentils, potato, salt and pepper, bay leaf, paprika (or substitute mixture) and rosemary to sausage pot. Don't worry about the woody rosemary stems - the leaves will fall off as it cooks.
• Add tomatoes to sausage pot. Bring to a good rolling boil and boil for 15 minutes.
• Combine the two pots.
• Wilt the greens in and remove the rosemary stems. Let sit 5 minutes off the heat before serving.

LENTIL SOUP WITH KALE AND SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Heat the EVOO in a soup pot over medium-high heat. Add the sausage and cook, crumbling with a wooden spoon, until browned. Add the garlic, bay leaves, rosemary, carrots, onions and potatoes and season with salt and pepper. Cook until the vegetables are soft, 7 to 8 minutes. Stir in the tomato paste and cook for 1 minute. Stir in the kale and nutmeg. Add the wine to deglaze the pot, stirring and scraping up any browned bits from the bottom. Stir in the chicken stock and 2 cups water and bring to boil (for thicker soup, use 2 cups less liquid).
• Stir in the lentils and cook at a low, bubbly simmer until the lentils are tender, 30 to 35 minutes. Remove the rosemary stems and bay leaves.
• Ladle the soup into bowls and top with a drizzle of EVOO and the shaved Pecorino.

HUNGARIAN HOT SAUSAGE AND LENTIL STOUP

Steps:

• Heat a medium soup pot over medium high heat. Add extra-virgin olive oil, 2 turns of the pan, then add sausage to pot and brown and crumble it, then add garlic, onions and mushrooms. Cook a few minutes, then add carrots, lentils, potato, salt and pepper, bay leaf, paprika or substitute mixture and rosemary (leaves will fall from stems as stoup cooks). Add tomatoes and broth and cover pot then raise heat to high and bring to a boil. Uncover pot and place heat back a bit but keep stoup at a good rolling boil. Cook 15 minutes until lentils and potatoes are tender. Wilt in greens in small bunches, remove rosemary stems and turn off heat. Let stand 5 minutes. Serve in shallow bowls with bread and butter to mop up stoup. Reheat leftovers thinning it with broth or water.

HUNGARIAN SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Peel the garlic.
• If you are using a meat grinder, run the peeled garlic through the grinder. Otherwise mince very finely.
• If you are grinding your own pork, don't trim the fat! It helps keep the sausage from drying out when cooking.
• Combine all ingredients in a bowl and mix well by hand to distribute the seasoning evenly throughout the meat.
• Cook and enjoy! This sausage greatly enhances Eastern European soups or stews.