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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Italian >> Italian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Heat olive oil in large pot, and saute onion. | 2. Remove casings from Italian sausage and cut up into 1 inch pieces, add to pan. | 3. Cook sausage until brown about 10 minutes, remove from pan and drain half the fat. | 4. Add the zucchini, squash, eggplant, red pepper, mushrooms and salt and pepper. Cook until tender, about 5 minutes. | 5. Add the chicken broth, stewed tomatoes, and sausage to the pot, and bring to a boil. | 6. Reduce heat to medium/low - low to a simmer for 20-25 minutes until vegetables are tender and sausage is cooked through. | 7. Stir in fresh basil in last 5 minutes. | 8. You can reduce the fat and calories by using a turkey based sausage, or make this a vegetarian dish by using a soy/tofu sausage or even garbanzo beans. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
extra virgin olive oil	1	tablespoon		-	-	-	-
onion	1			60.0	14.01	1.65	0.15
italian sausage	1		mild	1569.4315	2.9484	64.637	142.1107
zucchini	1	cup	sliced quartered	-	-	-	-
yellow squash lengthwise	1	cup	sliced quartered	-	-	-	-
eggplant	1		cubed	-	-	-	-
red bell pepper	1			-	-	-	-
portabella mushroom	1	cup		18.92	3.3282	1.8146	0.301
chicken broth	2	cans		189.1	4.575	26.962	6.343999999999999
tomato	2	cans	stewed	124.1379	27.5262	6.4768	1.0795
salt				-	-	-	-
basil	1	tablespoon		0.6095	0.0702	0.0835	0.017

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