Recipe - Italian Sausage And Tomato Cream Sauce

1 pound Sweet Italian sausage or
chorizo sausage; casings
removed
1 cup Chopped onion
2 lg Garlic cloves; cut or sliced up
5 cup Beef stock or canned broth
2 cup Chopped tomatoes; (about 3/4
pound)
1 cn Tomato sauce; (8ounce)
1 lg Zucchini; cut or sliced up
1 lg Carrot; thinly cut or sliced up
1 Mediumsized green bell
pepper; minced
One half cup Dry red wine
2 tablespoon Dried basil
2 tablespoon Dried oregano
8 ounce Purchased fresh cheese
tortellini; up to 10
Freshly grated Parmesan
cheese

Saute Italian sausage in heavy Dutch oven over mediumhigh heat until
cooked through, crumbling with back of spoon, about 10 minutes. using
slotted spoon, transfer sausage to large bowl. Pour off all but 1
tablespoon drippings from Dutch oven. Add onion and garlic to Dutch oven
and saute until translucent, about 5 minutes. Return sausage to Dutch oven.
Add stock, tomatoes, tomato sauce, zucchini, carrot, bell pepper, wine,
basil and oregano. Simmer until vegetables are tender, about 40 minutes.
(Can be prepared 2 days ahead. Cover and refrigerate. Bring to simmer
before continuing.)

Add tortellini to soup and cook until tender, about 8 minutes. Season soup
to taste with salt and pepper. Ladle soup into bowls. Sprinkle with
Parmesan and serve.

Serves 6.

Bon Appetit October 1993

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