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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Italian >> Italian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Bring large soup pan to high heat and add oil. Saute onions, zucchini, celery, carrots, and bay leaves until onions are translucent. | 2. Add stock, tomatoes, beans, basil, oregano, Italian seasoning, salt + pepper to taste, water, green beans, Parmesan rind, and garlic. Bring to boil and then reduce heat to simmer for 25 minutes. | 3. While soup is simmering cook sausage on charcoal/gas grill with a hunk of smoking wood (if available). | 4. Add pasta,spinach, and water and simmer for 25 minutes longer. | 5. When sausage is finished cooking, chop it into small chunks. | 6. Add red wine and sausage and cook for 5 minutes longer. | 7. Serve each bowl with about 1 teaspoon of basil pesto. Sprinkle freshly grated Parmesan to taste. Have extra virgin olive oil at table to drizzle in soup. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
vegetable oil	9	tablespoons		1055.088	0.0	0.0	122.4
red onion	2	cups	diced	-	-	-	-
zucchini	1 1/2	cups	diced	31.62	5.7846	2.2506	0.5952
italian green bean	1	can	cut drained	-	-	-	-
celery	2	stalks	chopped	20.48	3.8016	0.8832	0.2176
garlic clove	6		minced	26.82	5.9508	1.1448	0.09
chicken stock	8	cups		691.2	67.77600000000001	48.38399999999999	23.04
carrot	4		chopped	118.08	27.5904	2.6784	0.6912
red kidney bean	1	can	drained	910.3448	164.9655	67.2276	0.6897
great northern bean	1	can	drained	930.09	171.1201	59.9757	3.1277
tomato	1	can	diced	40.2099	8.6898	1.9658	0.4468
tomato sauce	1	can		-	-	-	-
water	4	cups		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
bay leaf	3			-	-	-	-
oregano	1	tablespoon	dried	7.95	2.0676	0.27	0.1284
italian seasoning	1	tablespoon		-	-	-	-
spinach	1	box	thawed frozen	-	-	-	-
shell pasta	1 1/2	cups		-	-	-	-
red wine	1/2	cup		-	-	-	-
parmigiano reggiano cheese	1	inch		-	-	-	-
italian turkey sausage	1	lb		716.6768	21.0921	68.2657	39.6894
basil pesto	2	cups		-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.