Kale, Sausage, and Mushroom Stew

Name: Kale, Sausage, and Mushroom Stew
Yield: makes 4 servings
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil; 1 pound Italian sausage, sweet or hot, cut into 1-inch or smaller pieces; 1 pound kale, leaves stripped from stems; 1/2 pound mushrooms, trimmed and sliced; 1 tablespoon roughly chopped garlic; 1 teaspoon hot red pepper flakes, or to taste; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; 2 cups stock or water

December 20, 2011

By building this stew one ingredient at a time—in a manner not unlike that of making soup—the process is streamlined and nearly everything is browned. This makes the flavors so much more complex that the stew needs no stock to finish it off. (Should you have some stock on hand, however, by all means use it.) To make this stew even tastier, use a mixture of mushrooms or add a few reconstituted dried porcini and use their soaking liquid to replace some of the water.

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