Simple, 1-pot Sausage, Spinach, Potato Stew. Flavorful, healthy, Whole30 compliant and perfect for colder months.
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Introducing my newest HEALTHY comfort food love: Sausage, Spinach, Potato Stew. That can be made in 1-Pot. As in 1-pot Sausage, Spinach, Potato Stew. This one's a game changer.
To answer your questions: YES, I've made this stew multiple times since it has entered my life. I am a non-meat-and-potato loving girl in a house of of boys who are my complete dietary opposites.
THIS stew = compromise.
Tons of spinach and veggies for me, ANNNNNNND All. The. Meat. And. Potatoes. for them.
I attribute my newfound love of stew to two things - 1) how easy it is to make, and 2) how amazing (and filling) this super chunky sausage, spinach, potato stew actually is.
This stew comes together REALLY quickly.. 35ish minutes as compared to the traditional 96 hours that are usually recommended for a traditional oven top stew. Admittedly, you get less awesome house smells, buuuuut sometimes you get home late, don't plan super well and you don't want to wait until midnight to eat. Hi, welcome to my world.
Sausage, Spinach, Potato Stew.. game changer.
This guy starts with a solid base: olive oil, garlic, onions, chicken sausage and LOADS of spices.
Then it gets a little more awesome by adding diced tomatoes, chicken bone broth and sweet potatoes (for thick creamy texture).
After all this simmers for about 20 minutes and the flavors mingle and get to know each other, we end with a healthy dose of fresh spinach leaves because, well... HEALTH (you can always skips if your kids are morally opposed to eating green things in their food).
That's it. That's the stew. It requires a bit of front-end chopping to prep the veggies, but I'd guess you can get the whole thing prepped and bubbling in under 20 minutes.
Serve this up with hot, crusty bread or melty grilled cheese sandwiches. Match made if heaven I'd say.
Time Saving Tips and Tricks
Prep: Garlic, onion and sweet potatoes can be chopped ahead of time to make throwing this stew together really simple.
Make Ahead: This soup is a perfect make ahead meal. In fact, I think it tastes even better after a day or 2 when the flavors have had the chance to hang out, mingle and get acquainted with one another.
Freezer: This is a perfect recipe to double. Personally I could eat soup/stew every night of the week, but around the 3rd time in a row that I serve it for dinner I get accused of getting lazy. Freeze half the batch in a freezer safe container, pull it out later, and enjoy a night off from making dinner.
📖 Recipe
1-Pot Sausage, Spinach, Potato Stew
- Yield: 5 servings 1x
Description
Simple, 1-pot Sausage, Spinach, Potato Stew. Flavorful, healthy, Whole30 compliant and perfect for colder months.
Ingredients
- 1 Tbs olive oil
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- ½ cup chopped onion
- 1 lb. ground Italian chicken sausage
- 2 tsp Italian seasoning
- ¼ tsp salt + more if desired
- ½ tsp smoked paprika
- ¼ tsp black pepper + more if desired
- ⅛ tsp red pepper flakes
- 4 cups chicken bone broth
- 1 can diced tomatoes, undrained
- 2 medium sweet potatoes, chopped into ½" pieces
- 4 cups fresh baby spinach
Instructions
- Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add garlic, onion, chicken sausage, Italian seasoning, salt, paprika, black pepper and red pepper. Cook stirring frequently, until the sausage is browned.
- Stir in the broth, tomatoes with their juices, and potatoes. Bring to a boil. reduce heat to low, cover and simmer, stirring occasionally, until the potatoes are just tender 20-30 minutes. Add the spinach and cook, uncovered, until the spinach is tender, 5 minutes more. Season with additional salt and black pepper and serve.
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Karly
Okay, now I'm reaaaally craving fall. This looks so delicious and jam packed with flavor- definitely need to try this as soon as the temperatures give us a break!
Jennie
Bailey, these soup recipes look SO DELICIOUS and am very excited about trying them (and your spiced pumpkin ideas too). Can the Sausage sweet potato stew be made with pork sausage too?
Thank you and looking forward to seeing more of your wonderful real food ideas.
Bailey Sissom
I haven't tried it, but I'm sure that would be delicious! If you try it.. report back!
Kristen
Have you made this with your homemade sausage recipe? I was thinking of making it with turkey....
Bailey Sissom
I haven't tried it. The homemade turkey sausage on the site is for a maple breakfast sausage and the sausage used for this soup is Italian flavored. You would need to switch up the spices. I would try going to the meat counter and asking if they have a chicken or turkey sausage that is Italian flavored. Even if they don't have it "ground," you could buy the link and just remove the casing. Hope this helps!