Last night at 4:30 am I shot out of bed ran to the freezer and took out all the chicken bones and fix-in's to make chicken stock today.
Pondering the way to get back to sleep I ran back to the freezer and grabbed the already frozen chicken broth and a kielbasa sausage out of the other freezer.
I truly love all potato based soup's but as you know I am always looking for something new.
In my mind I thought oh what a great idea I have left over baby potatoes and the kielbasa so why not potato and kielbasa soup. As if it was never done. Really Lani? Better yet roasted!
I love to roasted veggies prior to adding it to the soup this too has been done forever and it just adds that old time taste like grams made. Helps makes the taste go one step further.
Let us get started
Ingredients
- 10 baby potatoes chopped
1 russet potato peeled and chopped
2 tablespoons of flour if needed to thicken
1 - 14oz kielbasa sausage chopped
2 quarts chicken broth
1 -2 garlic cloves finely chopped
1 onion chopped - 2 tablespoons of canola oil
Prep
Pour your chicken stock into a large stock pot and add the potatoes (reserve two cups of them chopped bite size) and let it simmer for a least one hour.
You want to be able to mash the potatoes to thicken the soup.
*If everything else is in the pot it becomes a chore to try to avoid mushing the onions and sausage.
While this is cooking make the rest of the ingredients.
In a skillet but a tablespoon of canola oil and fry up your chopped onions about 3 minutes prior to them being ready pop in the chopped garlic.
The reason for this is the garlic cooks so quickly and you do not want to burn it.
Once this is roasted toss the onions and garlic into your stock pot. Making sure the potatoes are done and mushed.
In the same pan you used for the onions now put the chopped kielbasa and brown it well.
Remember you are looking for the roasted taste in your soup. Once the kielbasa is done toss this into the stock pot.
Add the 2 cups of reserved chopped potato's. Let this all simmer on low for another hour.
I simmer all my soup to get all the flavor gather together. Many soup take under an hour mine a lot longer so all the ingredients can get acquainted. There is many a time when I will let my soup sit overnight then warm it up the next morning to get a taste.
Well almost everything is better then next day!
Love this season so soupy.
Don't for get to try making some homemade bread here is a link. See mine next to the soup.
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