With just a few simple and wholesome ingredients, you can make this most amazing and comforting Gnocchi Sausage Soup in less than 30 minutes!
A recipe re-doooo ! We first posted this in December of 2011. That’s like a 100 in blog years. This was our first viral recipe and I remember doing cart wheels in the kitchen…not pretty, lemme tell ya and it’s a small kitchen. A simple little happy dance woulda sufficed but we are food drama queens so I celebrated big…
We love this soup for so many reasons. First because it tastes good! Close second, it requires very little effort. Made with simple ingredients that come together in a big way.
Gnocchi is readily available in stores these day. You will find it in the pasta aisle. I found this at my local grocers and paid 1.99 for it..a nice surprise. I remember when it was closer to six bucks.
BUT, if your not a fan of gnocchi or can’t find it, rotini noodles are a great sub.
Sausage: We used mild italian style. Easy to find, easy to use. You can sub chicken sausage, spicy sausage, just about any kind of uncooked sausage. NOTE: As much as we love smoked, cooked sausage I find the smoky flavor doesn’t pair as well with this soup as uncooked sausage.
Once you have sautéed your sausage and added the veggies, there isn’t much left to it!
I like heavy cream but I have made this with half and half and have gotten great results.
Sub great add-ins would be chopped carrot, celery, regular red pepper in lieu of roasted.
The sausage does most of the seasoning for you. It enhances the broth and cream…so the better the sausage, the better your soup!
SALT: I didn’t give specific quantities of salt because if you use low sodium broth or very salty sausage it will vary greatly. Your taste buds are the best tool for this. Love my job!
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To soup! The fast, the fresh and the flavorful!
Clink!
Kathi
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Simple and flavorful soup with sausage and gnocchi that comes together in 30 minutes!
- 1 pound mild Italian sausage bulk or removed from casings
- 1 small yellow onion, diced
- 3 garlic cloves, chopped
- 2 roasted red peppers, diced I use store bought
- 3 tablespoons tomato paste about half of a 6 ounce can
- salt and fresh black pepper to taste sausage is salty. Taste before adding a pinch was a time
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- 48 ounces chicken broth 1 1/2 boxes
- 1 pound gnocchi or 1 cup dried rotini noodles
- 2 cups fresh baby spinach leaves rough chopped
- 3/4 cup heavy cream or half and half
- Parmesan cheese for topping fresh grated
In a dutch oven or large soup pot, brown the sausage. Tipping the pan, remove all but one tablespoon of the grease.
To the sausage add chopped onion. Sauce until tender. About 5 minutes.
Add roasted red pepper, garlic and tomato paste sausage onion mixture. Saute until fragrant and tomato paste is incorporated into the sausage.
Add chicken stock, cream and basil. Bring to a simmer and add gnocchi. Cook for 5-10 minutes or until gnocchi is tender and floats to the top.
Turn off heat and add spinach. Let spinach wilt and serve!
Top with a sprinkle of parmesan cheese and serve with fresh crusty bread and simple green salad if desired.
Sausage: We used mild italian but any kind of uncooked sausage such as chicken or spicy italian will work.
Gnocchi can be subbed with rotini noodles if you prefer.
Could you freeze this soup?
Yes! Freeze in freezer bags, remove all the air and lay flat in your freezer for up to 3 months.
Amazingly delicious and hearty! I think I’ll add some shrimp next time, and there will be a next time!
Hi Jude! Glad you loved it! You might Like this Mexican Shrimp Chowder too if you like shrimp in your soup! https://laughingspatula.com/mexican-shrimp-and-corn-chowder/
I make this ALL THE TIME!! Awesome thing is you can make everything in advance – hold the cream (half and half) and gnocchi – and freeze it. Then all you have to do is defrost and take it from there.
It’s April 24th in Upstate NY and we have a windchill of 37 degrees… Perfect weather for it.
Love this soup. Have you ever made it in an insta pot?
Hi Tara! I have not embraced the insta pot …yet!
Jazzed this one up a bit. With the Italian sausage, I added shrimp and diced lobster tail meat to the mix and mixed a Mediterranean tomato sauce rather than just paste to the chicken stock. Added my needed spices to give it a kick. My wife demands it joins the regular rotation of the meals I cook for dinner.
Thank you for the great foundation to work with!
Shrimp and Lobster! Oh MY! That sounds heavenly in that wonderful broth! So glad you liked it and truly appreciate your nice note!
nothing like a great sense of humor to make all laugh and laughter makes us hungry. Great response. And can’t wait to make the soup. Keep on smiling. :\(
This is legitimately one of my favorite comfort food recipes! I get hounded for the recipe every time I bring it to work for lunch. It is just that good!
Made this soup today. Turned out amazing. Easy to make. Only thing I would change is adding zucchini. I think it would make it even better.
I think zucchini would be wonderful in this! I’m so glad you liked it!
Thank you Kathi!!! Reading your post made me chuckle & I needed that dose of humour (& no, that is not the wrong spelling! It is the way the British spell it:)) today. Great recipe btw!!!
Thanks Maria! Glad to know someone gets my humor! LOL!
This looks amazing. Does anyone happen to know the nutritional information, or amount of calories per serving?
This is so delicious! I made it for dinner tonight. It will definitely be in heavy rotation this winter.
Thanks Molly! I love this soup and still make it all the time!
Hey Kathi. We do not have 1/2 & 1/2 in Australia and rather than your suggestion to use heavy cream in it’s place which I’d prefer not to, can I use reduced fat milk only or would coconut milk suffice or ???? Recipe sounds so yum and as I just discovered your site, will certainly love to try it when weather gets a bit colder as now in mid-January here[mid-summer] and is a touch warm for soup!! Looking forward to your next email and thanks, wishing I’d discovered your site a long time ago.
Half and half is half milk and half cream. You can make your own! I wouldn’t recommend milk alone…it will curdle and make the soup kinda murky. As far as coconut milk goes…yes. That will work. Just use full fat. Will drastically change the flavor though. This soup is really good without the cream at all also. Hope that helps!
Above you said you wouldn’t recommend milk alone but then you said the soup is really good without the cream. So…. If half and half is milk and cream and you said make without the cream then hat just leaves the milk?? I’m confused, can you clarify please? I’m not much of a cook and I only have milk on hand! Thank you so much!! 🙂
Hi Lindy – I would not use milk, I would simply omit the dairy product entirely. You can use half and half or cream. Hope that helps…I think I’m confused now! 🙂
Is that roasted pepper from a jar or fresh?
Either works great. I have used both. I like the jarred stuff from Trader Joes if you go that route. Thanks!
Do you think I could use a green pepper? I don’t have a red pepper
Yes! that will be fine!
This soup is absolutely delicious. I used Italian ground turkey instead of chicken and gnocchi. I will definitely be making this again in the future! My soup ended up making about 5 2-cup servings. I can’t seem to select stars from my phone, but 5 star recipe for sure!
Thank you Mirelle! Ground turkey is a great sub for the sausage! Clever idea!
Great looking pot of soup, Kathi….I love how you tossed in the spinach. 🙂
Hi Pat – Thanks for the nice note! Gotta get our veggies in somewhere…even if it’s in-between bites of cream and sausage 🙂
love a soup like this that can make a nice substantial meal!
Hi David,
Thanks for the nice note!
This looks so yummy for fall and winter! And yes, I agree to gnocchi is really tough to spell 🙂
Hi Melanie – I guess I shoulda googled it or paid attention to my spell check…I always think its wrong 🙂
Oh my word this looks amazing! Perfect food for a cold & rainy day, like today… Glad to connect via FBC! 🙂
Thanks Johlene! Have a great day!
The soup looks great no matter how one spells it. It will be very welcome in our home once the weather cools down here in Southern California. As for the snarky little note, I say ignore it. Some folks have nothing better to do than be snippy. Surely there are kinder, gentler ways to help out a fellow blogger. Congratulations on a wonderful recipe!
Agree! Everybody is so bold behind their computer xoxoo! Glad to see you back blogging!
This looks awesome! The combination of gnocchi and sausage with the tomato and heavy cream sounds flavorful and hearty. Perfect for filling hungry bellies on chilly days! Pinning 🙂
Thanks Rachel! Have a great day!
Man, some people! I _ave to say t_at it’s ridiculous _ow some folks need to c_ill. I am making t_is soup immediately! T_anks Kat_i !
This will be perfect for the very cold weather ahead. Looks wonderfully filling!
Looks & sounds sooo yummy & comforting, and E-Z to prepare. I’m sure my family will enjoy this soup, since we love spinach. I might add in a bit more because it wilts down so much. I like that you used GnoccHi… LOL…I gave this (only) 4 stars because I haven’t made it as yet, but I’m sure this is a 5* dish.