Lentil Sausage Soup

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons olive oil

• 1 1/2 cups chopped yellow onion

• 1 cup chopped carrot

• 2/3 cup chopped celery

• 8 oz. spicy Italian sausage

• 6 cups unsalted chicken stock

• 1 1/2 cups dried brown lentils

• 6 thyme sprigs

• 3 bay leaves

• 1/2 cup chopped parsley

• 1 teaspoon kosher salt

• 1 teaspoon black pepper

• 9 oz. fresh kale

Instructions

1. Heat oil in a Dutch oven over medium-high. Add onion, carrot and celery; cook stirring often, 5 minutes.

2. Add sausage; cook, stirring often until crumbled and no longer pink, about 3 minutes.

3. Add stock, lentils, thyme and bay leaves; bring to boil. Cover and reduce heat to medium; simmer until lentils are tender, about 20 minutes.

4. Add parsley, salt, pepper and kale; cook, stirring constantly, until kale wilts, about 1 1/2 minutes. Discard thyme sprigs and bay leaves.