PIN the Slow Cooker Sausage Stew to try it later!

Many readers know that I started my carb-conscious eating journey with the original South Beach Diet. Back then I ate a lot of dried beans, but for years now I’ve been creating lower-carb versions for earlier recipes that had beans. And this Slow Cooker Sausage Stew is an easy recipe with some of my favorite flavors, and I’ve updated it to be lower in carbs. 

This new slow cooker stew with Italian sausage uses cauliflower rice to replace the Cannellini beans in the original version of the recipe. (If you were a fan of that one, you can still find it by using the link.) I tested the new version with my assistant Kara, and we both loved it. And my neighbor John came over to be a taste tester, and he also pronounced it delicious!

One thing I love in this slow cooker stew is adding chopped kale to the slow cooker after the sausage, broth, tomatoes, spices, and cauliflower rice have cooked for a few hours. The raw kale softens perfectly in the last hour of cooking time. Or cook it a little bit longer if you want even softer kale. And the kale is one of my favorite parts of this dish!

I know my site has a lot of recipes that use Italian sausage, and I never get tired of it. If you’re also a sausage fan who likes the slow cooker, I hope you give this a try. And personally I’d always eat this kind of stew with Parmesan cheese sprinkled on at the table!

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PIN Instant Pot Buffalo Chicken Soup to try it later!

Instant Pot Buffalo Chicken Soup is one of my favorite soup recipes, and this is warm and comforting if it’s cold where you are! This is a soup  for people who love the strong flavors of Frank’s Red Hot Sauce and crumbled blue cheese!

If you like hot spicy Buffalo Wings dipped into blue cheese, or any other variation of those Buffalo Chicken flavors, you’re probably going to love this creamy Buffalo Chicken Soup. It did take me a couple of tries testing variations with Jake and Kara to come up with a version of this soup we thought was a total winner. But we loved the final version!

And then after I uploaded the photos, I wished we had ground up the thyme when we added it to the soup. But I decided the flecks of thyme add character to the soup (and the thyme does add wonderful flavor!) So for all the fellow Buffalo Chicken fans, hope you enjoy this soup!

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PIN the Turkey Rice Soup to try it later!

Turkey Rice Soup is a new Instant Pot recipe that’s an updated version of a soup recipe that’s been moved to the archives on the blog. I’m having fun improving some of my older recipes, and the older version of this soup was made on the stove, had chopped leftover turkey and wild rice, and was much higher in carbs than this version with turkey and cauliflower rice. 

And I think turkey soup is too tasty to only make at Thanksgiving, so this delicious new Turkey and Rice soup uses ground turkey (or leftover turkey), chopped cabbage, chicken stock with some turkey soup base for added flavor, and frozen cauliflower rice. You can enjoy this tasty soup all winter long!

Kara and I absolutely loved this when we tested the recipe, and I enjoyed it again when I pulled a container out of the freezer for a quick dinner. And please eat this soup with coarsely grated Parmesan cheese if you possibly can! I hope you try the recipe soon.

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PIN the Chicken Pesto Soup recipe to make it later!

Chicken Pesto Soup is a recipe I came up with when I was experimenting with a chicken soup with cauliflower rice! And I do know how people love chicken with pesto. So knowing the popularity of that combination probably influenced the impulse to add pesto to this tasty soup.

And the chicken soup with pesto and lemon was really a wow for me! I made this soup in the Instant Pot, which was quick and easy. But you can easily make it on the stove, and I’ll give instructions for that. No matter which version you prefer, I hope you make this interesting soup right away!

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PIN the recipe for Instant Pot Cauliflower Soup to try it later!

This Instant Pot Loaded Cauliflower Soup is an amazing dinner when it’s cold outside and you want a treat! And even people who are normally cauliflower avoiders will probably enjoy this delicious low-carb and gluten-free soup. I’ve had readers report that their family member will devour it, even the ones who aren’t fans of cauliflower!

When first I created this recipe with my niece Kara, we couldn’t wait to share it with you! Now years later this Instant Pot Cauliflower Soup is still one of the most popular soup recipes on Kalyn’s Kitchen! And I make this regularly, so I’m reminding you about this loaded cauliflower soup for Friday Favorites this week!

I hope you try the recipe and enjoy it. And it’s starting to feel like serious soup weather in Utah. Is it getting cold where you live?

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PIN Hopping John Soup to Make it later!

Hopping John Soup is a recipe I’ve been making for years for good luck in the New Year! And if you’re willing to eat a few carbs to get some good luck, I highly recommend making this soup; it has all the luck-bringing properties of traditional Hopping John.

If you’re not familiar with Hopping John, it’s eaten throughout the southern U.S. on New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day. The origin of the name is uncertain, but it’s thought to have come from the Creole French pronunciation of the pigeon peas used in the dish.

I took the Hopping John ingredients of black-eyed peas, ham, and collard greens and turned them into a soup years ago. And this recipe is what I’ve been making for New Year’s luck ever since! And I hope you’ll make it and get some good lucky; Happy New Year everyone!

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PIN the Keto Zuppa Toscana to try it later!

This popular Zuppa Toscana to make in the Instant Pot or on the stove is perfect for dinner during the holidays! This tasty soup is Olive Garden famous, and it’s one of my personal go-to soup recipes for cold weather. And this has been a hit with lots of Kalyn’s Kitchen readers as well.  When I tested out the idea for a Keto version of Zuppa Toscana, we loved the Instant Pot version. And when I made it for some friends, they loved it and requested a stovetop recipe!

My Keto Zuppa Toscana has bacon, spicy Italian sausage, onion, garlic, chicken stock, chopped cauliflower, red pepper flakes, chopped kale, heavy cream, and Parmesan cheese to add at the table. And whether you make it in the Instant Pot or on the stove, this soup is super quick to make! I hope you try making Zuppa Toscana soon!

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PIN the Ground Beef Chili recipe to make it later!

This Ground Beef Chili with Olives is a favorite chili recipe that I find myself making over and over. And right now the weather is extra cold in many parts of the U.S., and that’s the perfect time to make chili! Everyone who loves olives (like me!) will love this low-carb beef chili with olives!

This is also a pretty mild chili, so kids or people who don’t like spicy chili will enjoy this recipe. And if you’re not an Instant Pot user, I’ll give you directions for making ground beef chili on the stove as well.

This recipe has ground beef, onions, red bell peppers, garlic, cumin, chili powder, dried cilantro (or not), canned green chiles, beef stock, crushed tomatoes, and black olives! All those flavorful ingredients cook in the Instant Pot or simmer on the stove. Then when the chili is done I add lime juice and serve with plenty of grated cheese and sour cream cream. Don’t you think that sounds like a perfect dinner when the weather is cold?

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PIN Low-Carb Turkey Soup to make it later!

Happy Thanksgiving to all my readers! I’m heading out in a few hours to spend Thanksgiving with my sister Laurel and some of her family. I don’t normally update the website on Thursday, but I wanted people who who subscribe to the site to get this recipe for Low-Carb Turkey Soup with Zucchini  in their inbox on Friday morning. And if you get some leftover turkey, I hope you make this soup or one of my other low-carb recipes for leftover turkey!

This soup is the perfect thing to make on the day after Thanksgiving! When we tested this recipe for low-carb turkey soup, we gobbled it up, even though it was the end of a long day of recipe testing and we weren’t really that hungry. I first made this tasty soup with zucchini noodles, but now they aren’t so much of a thing, and this soup will be equally delicious (if not better) with small diced pieces of zucchini.

Take your choice on that, but trust me when I say you’re not going to miss the traditional higher-carb ingredients like potatoes or noodles in this delicious turkey soup! And if you don’t have leftover turkey, you can make this soup with chicken as well. I hope it’s going to be a hit at your house!

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PIN the Tomato Spinach Soup to try it later!

Tomato Spinach Soup is a new soup recipe inspired by my love of this soup with chickpeas that’s back in the archives! When I used to have my annual soup party, that chickpea soup was always a huge hit. But now many of my readers don’t want a soup with dried beans, and I love this new lower-carb soup with those same flavors.

One thing that made the soup so amazing was using a generous amount of chopped fresh basil added towards the end of the cooking time. At my favorite supermarket they sell basil plants in the produce department almost all year, for fresh basil when it’s not garden season. But if that’s not an option for you, the Tomato Basil Soup with also be delicious with basil pesto stirred in at the end!

And if you celebrate Meatless Monday or just like a vegetarian meal sometimes, I hope you try this new meatless soup!

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