Slow Cooker Italian-Style Bean Soup

Ingredients

  • 1 package (16 ounces) bean soup mix, flavor packet discarded if there is one
  • 1 pound sweet Italian sausage, casings removed
  • 1 jar (26 ounces) pasta sauce (I used tomato basil.)
  • 2 empty pasta sauce jars of chicken broth
  • Parmesan cheese, grated or shredded

Instructions

  1. Rinse beans well in sieve with running water.  Pour beans into large pot, cover with water, and bring to boil.  Boil for 10 minutes, remove from heat, cover pot and soak beans 1 hour.  Drain in sieve and rinse well with running water.  Transfer beans to slow cooker.  
  2. Meanwhile, cook sausage in large skillet until cooked through, breaking into pieces as sausage cooks.  Drain sausage then add to slow cooker.  Pour in pasta sauce and two jars of chicken broth.  
  3. Cover and cook on LOW for 8 to 10 hours or HIGH for 4 to 5 hours.  Serve topped with parmesan cheese.  

Comment

This recipe is from A Year of Slow Cooking.  It was really delicious and I enjoyed it quite a bit!  I think that the guys might have tried it over rice, but I just ate it plain.  Very flavorful and yummy.