Sounds fancy right? I promise, I don’t make fancy food.
This is what happened when I had 30 minutes to feed the kids and get to work. I looked in the fridge and must have said at least 5 times, “I can’t do this, I have to order take out.” But in a moment of clarity I reached for the sausage and every vegetable I could find. In 20 minutes I had a soup my kids couldn’t slurp up fast enough.
My sofrito had 1 onion, 2 carrots, 2 celery, and 1 green pepper
The trick to this soup is having bone broth on hand, so make that first. With bone broth in your fridge or freezer, a whole new world of quick and easy healthy possibilities will liven up your dinner table.
Don’t write this one off just because it says sausage. This would have been just as good with ground turkey or white beans. A typical sofrito is like the french mirepoix or 3 vegetable combination of carrots, onions and celery. I have found improvising on this 3 veg combination to be very successful and tasty no matter what you choose.
Behold, I give you my 20 minute masterpiece…
Sofrito, mirepoix, or the start of most of my dishes
Ingredients
- 1 pound Italian sausage or ground meat with 1 tbsp sausage type spices
- Spices may include: onion powder, garlic granules, fennel, oregano, cumin, thyme, etc.
- 1 Tbsp olive oil, coconut oil, lard, bacon fat, duck fat, or beef tallow
- 1 liter bone broth or 2 cups bone broth and 2 cups fresh spring water
- 1-2 cups vegetables: I used 2 celery stalks, 1 onion, and 4 small carrots
- 1 box rice noodles or Jovial brand brown rice noodles
- 1 handful fresh parsley
- 1-2 tsp sea salt
- * optional - grated parmesan
Instructions
- First heat up an appropriate fat in a big pot to medium heat
- Dice the vegetables into similar sizes and sauté in the oil until soft (3 min)
- Add sausage or ground meat and spices, including salt
- Bash the meat until it's ground into the veggies and cook until brown (5 min)
- Pour in the broth and heat until boiling
- Toss in the noodles and boil to package directions, usually about (9-10 min)
- Turn off heat and season with salt and parsley to taste
- Serve with parmesan for those that enjoy dairy
- *I eat mine without noodles or dairy and it's still amazing!