Classic tuscan soup loaded with bacon, sausage, potatoes, and kale in a creamy broth.

Cooking Instructions

Step 1:

Add water to meal in slow cooker.

Smaller Portions - Add 4 cups of water.
Regular Portions - Add 6 cups of water.
Bigger Portions - Add 8 cups of water.

Step 2:

Set time. Cook in slow cooker on LOW for 2-3 hours [thawed] or 3-4 hours [frozen].

Step 3:

When cooking is finished, remove italian sausage from crockpot and shred apart with two forks. Return to pot and stir.

Serve as soup.

Slow Cooker (Crockpot) Sizes

The size of your crockpot can affect the outcome of your meal. If your crockpot is smaller than what we recommend, you may need to cook your meal a little longer. If it’s larger than what we recommend you may need to shorten the cooking time. You will need to keep a close eye on the chicken as it cooks. Here are the crockpot sizes we recommend for each meal size to help cook your meals just right:

Smaller Portion (SP) - 3-Quart Crockpot
Regular Portion (RP) - 4-Quart Crockpot
Bigger Portion (BP) - 6-Quart Crockpot

Pressure Cooker (InstantPot) Cooking Instructions

Though Beehive Meals are primarily designed to be cooked within a slow cooker (Crockpot), many of our meals can be cooked in a Pressure Cooker (InstantPot). Please reference our Pressure Cooker Instructions in the helpful links below.

Troubleshooting and Helpful Links:

Pressure Cooker (InstantPot) Cooking Instructions
How to avoid tough, rubbery, or even chewy chicken in your slow cooker
5 Tips to Help Get to Know your Slow Cooker

Serving Suggestions

Pairing this soup with a sandwich is a great option, but our Zuppa Toscana can be the star of dinner by itself. Simply add a side salad, vegetable side, and seasoned potato, or bread, rolls, and biscuits to round out this meal.

Nutritional Information

INGREDIENTS: ground italian sausage (pork, beef, salt, spices, sugar, lactic acid starter culture, paprika, garlic powder, spice extractives, sodium nitrite, bha, bht, citric acid), bacon (cured with water, salt, sodium nitrite, sugar, brown sugar, smoke flavoring, sodium phosphates, sodium erythorbate, sodium ascorbate, apple flavor (water, sugar, dextrose, natural flavoring), flavoring), potatoes (potatoes, dextrose, disodium pyrophosphate, potassium sorbate), heavy cream (cream, carageenan, mono and diglycerides), kale, onion, spices.

CONTAINS: DAIRY, SOY, CORN.

Allergen Disclaimer: This product is manufactured in a facility that processes soy, dairy, wheat, tree nuts, shell fish, fish, peanuts, and eggs and may contain traces of these products.