Easy Creamy Kale Soup
An easy creamy kale soup recipe is the best way to add kale to our diets. Kale has plenty of health benefits but needs a lot of help in the flavor department. Luckily, soups combine the flavors of multiple ingredients to give us something truly delicious and healthy.
Why You’ll Love This Easy Kale Soup Recipe
- Homemade Soup – There is nothing terribly wrong with canned soup, but homemade will always be better, if not only due to freshness.
- Easy Recipe – The Instant Pot makes soup from scratch so much easier.
- Perfect for Canning – Canning soup is a great way to meal prep and this simple soup fits perfectly if you’re into canning.
Is an Instant Pot Good for Making Soup
This easy creamy kale soup gives us a healthy and delicious way to eat more kale and is perfect for meal prep ideas. Spoiler alert: the answer is yes! Making a comforting soup recipe at home usually means filling a stew pot with the prepared ingredients over medium heat or medium-high heat for hours in a heavy-bottomed pot.
The goal is to simmer the ingredients so the flavors combine in the creamy broth for a deliciously hearty soup. Comforting soups takes time using traditional methods. Luckily, different variations in cooking can change the way we make soup at home.
The Instant Pot uses a combination of heat, pressure, and steam to cook food faster while keeping meat tender and juicy.
Easy Creamy Kale Soup Ingredients
- Italian Sausage: Sausage fits perfectly with kale. You can use simple ingredients like premade Italian sausage, or you can make some sausage using pork, beef, and Italian seasoning. Change things up a bit by using spicy Italian sausage instead.
- Onion: This creamy soup is filled with fresh veggies, of course, you can add in anything you’d like. That’s the beauty of a homemade bowl of soup.
- Garlic: We can add in more flavors by adding smaller things like garlic; small but mighty.
- Oregano: Italian seasoning goes a long way in this sausage soup with kale recipe.
- Cauliflower: You may come across a creamy potato kale soup recipe and it is a great soup. However, we removed the potatoes and added cauliflower for a lighter bowl of soup.
- Tomato Paste: Tomato paste is going to add some flavor to this easy creamy kale soup recipe. However, it is also going to start thickening things up.
- Kale: Fresh kale works best in this recipe. We use traditional Tuscan kale or lacinato kale. You can add the kale in however you’d like, chopped kale is an option, or add it in whole.
- Chicken Broth: The broth uses a chicken broth base. However, you can also use beef broth or even vegetable broth for a healthier version.
- Heavy Cream: Here is where the best soup becomes a creamy soup. The heavy cream does the heavy lifting in making the broth thick and tasty.
- Italian Parsley: More Italian seasoning to tie things together. Add in some spice for a hotter bowl of soup.
- Parmesan Cheese: Top everything off with a bit of parmesan cheese for the perfect bowl of soup.
Why is Kale Soup Good For You
Kale’s nutritional information is the most important aspect of this healthy soup recipe. Kale is a powerhouse green filled with nutrients like vitamins A, K, and C. The whole family will get a healthy dose of those vitamins with one bowl of soup.
The nutrients in kale help our bodies with everything from skincare to immune system health. In fact, kale isn’t the only ingredient adding nutritional benefits to this recipe. A handful of ingredients can give us all the nutrients we may be lacking, from garlic, chicken broth, onions, and even parmesan cheese.
The cooked sausage also adds in some protein along with basic nutrients. Overall, this easy creamy kale soup is perfect on a cold day or for a boost of nutrients any time of year.
How to Make Easy Creamy Kale Soup
- Set your Instant Pot to saute mode. Add the oil and Italian sausage. Brown the sausage for about 5 minutes, using a wooden spoon to break it up as it browns. Drain any excess fat.
- While still in saute mode, add the garlic, onion, and oregano. Stir and cook for about 3 minutes until the onion is translucent.
- Stir in the chicken broth, tomato paste, and cauliflower.
- Place the lid on the Instant Pot and set the manual timer to 5 minutes.
- When the cooking time is done, carefully do a quick release with the long end of a wooden spoon.
- Set the Instant Pot to the “Keep Warm” setting and remove the lid. Stir in the kale. Replace the lid and let it sit for about 3 minutes.
- Remove the lid once more and stir in the heavy cream. Keep stirring until heated through, 1-2 minutes. Then season the soup with salt and pepper and stir it in.
- Ladle the soup into bowls. Top with parsley and parmesan cheese, and serve.
How to Store Kale Soup
Finding new recipes like this easy kale soup recipe is always fun. However, we need a way to store leftovers since we aren’t sure how much will be left once we have had our fill. We don’t want to skip out on the airtight container.
We can store half the soup in a container in the fridge for up to a week. We can reach for a serving every day for the entire week if we want. Another option is to store the leftovers in the freezer, where it will hold up for 3 months!
This creamy sausage soup is a powerhouse recipe we should all keep on hand.
Easy Creamy Kale Soup
Ingredients
- 1 Lb Mild Ground Italian Sausage
- 1 Tbsp Avocado Oil
- 1 Large Onion, Diced
- 3 Cloves of Garlic, Minced
- 1 Tsp Oregano
- 2 Cups Cauliflower Florets
- 1 Tbsp Tomato Paste
- 1 Bunch of Kale, Washed, Stems Removed and Roughly Chopped
- 48 Oz Chicken Broth
- 3/4 Cup Heavy Cream
- Salt and Pepper to Taste
- Freshly Chopped Italian Parsley (For Serving)
- Grated Parmesan Cheese (For Serving)
Instructions
- Set your Instant Pot to saute mode. Add the oil and Italian sausage. Brown the sausage about 5 minutes, using a wooden spoon to break it up as it browns. Drain any excess fat.
- While still on saute mode, add the garlic, onion, and oregano. Stir and cook about 3 minutes until the onion is translucent.
- Stir in the chicken broth and tomato paste and cauliflower.
- Place the lid on the Instant Pot and set the manual timer to 5 minutes.
- When the cooking time is done, carefully do a quick release with the long end of a wooden spoon.
- Set the Instant Pot to the “Keep Warm” setting and remove the lid. Stir in the kale. Replace the lid and let it sit for about 3 minutes.
- Remove the lid once more and stir in the heavy cream. Keep stirring until heated through, 1-2 minutes. Then season the soup with salt and pepper and stir it in.
- Ladle the soup into bowls. Top with parsley and parmesan cheese and serve.
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