Zuppa Toscana

Italian

Zuppa Toscana

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Zuppa Toscana is Italian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the soup. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

45 min Medium Gluten free

Ingredients

Serves
6

The quantities follow this count.

How to cook it

  1. Heat the olive oil in a large pot and brown the sausage, breaking it up, about 8 minutes, then spoon off any excess fat.

  2. Add the onion and garlic and cook until soft, about 4 minutes.

  3. Stir in the red pepper flakes, then pour in the chicken broth.

  4. Add the sliced potatoes and simmer until tender, about 15 minutes.

  5. Stir in the chopped kale and cook until wilted, about 5 minutes.

  6. Pour in the cream, season with salt, and warm through without boiling, then serve.

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Serve it with

A Italian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Zuppa Toscana, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Zuppa Toscana carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Zuppa Toscana
Allergen In this dish Cook this instead
Peanuts No
Tree nuts No
Dairy Yes Chicken Cacciatore
Gluten No
Shellfish No
Eggs No
Soy No
Fish No
Sesame No
Coconut No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories
550 kcal
Protein
16 g
Carbs
18 g
Fat
46 g
Fiber
2 g
Sugar
3 g
Sodium
860 mg
Saturated fat
18 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Zuppa Toscana takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. It is at its best in the fall and winter, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.

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