Gnocchi, Sausage & Spinach Soup

Gnocchi, Sausage & Spinach Soup

1 yellow onion, diced

1 roasted red pepper, diced (I used homemade pickled ploblono peppers that had some heat to it, yum)

sea or Kosher salt and fresh black pepper

1 pound italian sausage ground like jimmy dean

4 cloves garlic, minced

1 tsp dried basil

32 oz chicken broth

1 lbs gnocchi (store bought or make your own)

2 cups fresh baby spinach leaves, rough chopped

3/4 cups half and half or heavy cream 

In a large pot brown sausage, onion, peppers, garlic and dried basil until cooked. If there is any grease to drain, do so.  I didn't have much grease.

Add chicken broth. 

simmer for 20 mins.

Add the gnocchi and spinach, cook until gnocchi float to the top, usually 3 minutes.

Add the half and half.

Enjoy.

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 These are my diced onions and homemade pickled peppers I added

 This is the soup before I added the half and half

This is the soup done. 

Yum, boy was it good.  It had a spiciness to it from the peppers, so if you used roasted red peppers it wont. It doesn't make a large batch. So you can make it to see if you like it.  If you like it, next time double the batch.

This is the kind of gnocchi I used.  It was OK, but I have made homemade gnocchi before.  Really not that hard, but much better. Either way, the soup is great!!

These are what gnocchi's look like if you aren't familiar with them.