Sausage Vegetable Soup With Dumplings

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 12 ounces lean sausage meat, ground
• 4 cups water
• 14 1/2 ounces vegetable broth
• 12 ounces juice, v8 brand
• 1/2 cup red pepper, drained, seeded, coarsely chopped canned
• 1 cup green cabbage, coarsely chopped
• 1 (10 ounce) can refrigerated pizza dough, cut into 1 x 2 inch strips, you will only need 1/3 of the can
• 1/4 cup flour
• 1 teaspoon chili powder
• 1 potato, cubed
• 1 carrot, sliced
• 1 stalk celery, sliced
• 1 small onion, coasely chopped
• 3 cups water
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper

Recipe

• 1 put the 4 cups of water, the v8 juice and the vegetable broth into a medium sized pot.
• 2 crumble the uncooked sausage into small pieces and add to pot.
• 3 add the potatoes, carrots, onion, cabbage, and red peppers and the salt, pepper and chili powder to the pot.
• 4 press the pizza dough as flat as possible then cut into small pieces about 1 x 2 inches, which will become the dumplings.
• 5 sprinkle the flour on the dumplings and set aside.
• 6 when the vegetables are almost tender add the dumplings and flour into the soup and simmer for about 10 more minutes.
• 7 season with more salt and pepper if needed.