Here's the recipe:
Ingredients
- l lb LightLife breakfast sausage
- 1 medium onion, diced(or mirepoix)
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 to 3 tsp Italian seasoning
- salt and pepper to taste
- 3-4 cups veggie broth
- 2-3 tbsp miso paste
- appox 2.5 lb potatoes, diced into small cubes
- salt and pepper to taste
- 2 cups Next Milk
- 1 tbsp flour
Instructions
- Saute the veggies in oil until soft. Add salt and pepper. Add sausage shortly after starting saute. Add garlic and cook 2 more minutes, or until fragrant.
- Mix miso paste in 1 cup of milk
- Add milk, broth, seasoning and potatoes. bring to a boil and then simmer for 30 to 60 minutes until potatoes are soft. Mash with a masher a bit.
- Mix rest of milk and flour. Add to soup, bring back to a boil, then remove from heat and let thicken.
I've been meaning to make it again since I've only made it once since becoming a plant-mouth. The last time was ok but I tend to obsess over perfecting recipes and after going vegan I've been wanting to port a few of my standbys over. My chili recipe is perfection but I felt my potato soup was still lacking.
A few weeks ago I promised my oldest I would make it for him. And I wanted to test out a brainfart I had for using miso to add some much needed umami since my old recipe used a can of condensed cream of chicken soup that basically carried the entire recipe. Turns out the miso was a great idea.
My kid is a standard picky eater kid and will usually only eat enough to qualify as a meal(we were all kids once and he just wants to get back to playing. I get it lol) but he has 2 servings.
A friend was over as well for a Dungeons and Dragons session and she is a fellow ND but has quite a few food aversions so I made sure to run the ingredients by her and check our food cheat sheet and it was all good. I did check last minute if the fake sausage was ok since she is Jewish and she said yep. She loved it. Wife loved it. Kid loved it and I am pissed because there isn't enough leftover for me to have it for lunch.
I'll try to share my chili recipe when I make it next as well. It's fucking good too.
Potato soup is one of my favorite comfort foods. I do not have discriminating tastes, so I'd probably just eat canned vegan potato soup if it was available, but it's not, so I learned to make my own. My recipe is generally similar to yours, except I I tend to favor oat milk over other kinds and use a higher milk:broth ratio.
I was actually going to go with unflavored almond milk but I decided to treat myself with Next. It's the closest I've had to the real thing and wanted to see how it fared.
And yeah, potato soup is also one of my favorite comfort foods. It's really an all time classic lol.
NEXT milk is a mix of oat milk and coconut milk. Haven't personally tried it, but if Silk weren't so expensive I'd definitely be interested in trying it.
