Skinnymixer’s Zuppa Toscana features in the Family Favourites of the cookbook Dinners 4.

Inside The Healthy Mix Dinners 4 you’ll find Dinners is FULL with 36 Dinners. Whether you are feeding your family on a tight budget, needing to get dinner on the table fast, watching your calorie intake or perhaps cutting back on takeaway.

The Zuppa Toscana is a cookbook exclusive recipe…

I love a good potato soup and there is something truly special about the combination of potato, cream, bacon and Italian sausage. Kale is definitely not my favourite ingredient to use but for the texture and contrast it adds to this soup, it is definitely worth adding.

If you love my Pasta al Forno in SkinnyMediterranean, then you will love this Italian sausage mince mixture in the Zuppa Toscana.

I think I first heard of Zuppa Toscana as the popular soup you can get from The Olive Garden franchise in America.

This soup is so much more than that though. It is so satisfying without being too heavy or too creamy.

What ingredients you will need

cream or Greek yoghurt
crispy bacon
kale leaves
Parmesan cheese
pork mince
red wine vinegar
Stock Concentrate
streaky bacon
waxy potatoes
onion powder

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Tips & Dietary Needs

Protein swap – You could try swapping the pork mince to chicken or beef mince.
No Chicken Stock Concentrate? We highly recommend making Niks Chicken Stock Concentrate for best results! Vegetable stock concentrate will work. You can also replace the water with liquid stock.
Don’t like kale? The testing team also tried using broccoli florets and baby spinach.
Dairy-free – Use dairy-free cream or Greek yoghurt of choice. Flora plant cream is our go-to for dairy-free cream when you don’t want the coconut flavour.
Low carb – We have a low carb variation that replaces the potato with cauliflower.
Lower calorie – Use shortcut bacon and low-fat Greek yoghurt. Replace half the potato with cauliflower.
Paleo – Use compliant bacon. Replace potato with cauliflower if desired.
Go veggie – Use vegetable stock concentrate. Omit bacon. Replace mince with firm tofu, crumbled into pan with spices. Add 2 Tbsp nutritional yeast with tofu. Add 1 tin cannellini beans, rinsed in the last 5 min of cooking.
Low Fodmap – Omit garlic and garlic powder. Use 1 Tbsp garlic infused olive oil to cook mince. Replace onion powder with dried chives. Replace onion with 1 leek (green part only). Use compliant stock concentrate and lactose-free cream.

How to Cook

Start pan-frying your bacon,
Mince garlic and chop onion.
Combine Sausage Mixture and brown with bacon.
Prepare soup base in the Thermomix with half the potatoes in the simmering basket.
Once all cooked, combine together with kale.

How to Serve

Top with some crispy bacon & Parmesan cheese.

Storage & Meal Prep

Fridge – Store in the fridge for up to 3 days.
Make ahead – freeze cooked for up to three months.

From the Testing Team

Tanya H – I made the low carb version and used chicken mince. The cauliflower cooked perfectly during the recipe time – tender with no need to adjust timing. Texture and flavour were both excellent, and it still felt like a hearty, comforting dish. Loooved it!!
Michelle R – Vegetarian variation. I fried tempeh mince with smoked paprika in place of bacon, and crumbled tofu instead of mince. Amazing dish… upped the chilli flakes cause i like it Will make again!
Tara L – Absolutely Incredible. I was like KALE . But it was actually really really good. No changes made. Loved it! 10/10
Mel C – Wow! I almost didn’t make this one, because I don’t like kale, but glad I did. Coles subbed a bag of kale instead of a bunch, so I picked out as many stems as I could, but there I still found a few while eating it. I think I’ll make it again, using spinach instead, and see how that goes, because I loved the flavours, I just can’t get past the texture of kale. I might also increase the chilli next time too
Betty W – Really enjoyed the flavours of this one and like how the bacon and mince is cooked in the pan rather than thermie. When we make this again, I’d personally like more potatoes in the steaming basket and more kale.

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