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Tomato Soup with Sausage and Pasta

Homemade tomato soup with sausage and pasta is a simple, comforting dish perfect for a cold fall or winter day.

tomato soup with pasta and sausage with spoon and bread on plate in background

I love tomato soup. It is comfort food in a bowl.

This recipe for homemade tomato soup takes a basic tomato soup and makes it heartier with sausage and pasta.

This recipe uses everyday ingredients that you probably have on hand. The recipe calls for kielbasa, but you could use another kind of sausage if you don’t have kielbasa on hand.

tomato soup with sausage and pasta in black bowl with spoon and cheese. Bread in background

This tomato soup with sausage and pasta is also easy to make gluten-free with gluten-free pasta.

This soup would be a perfect dinner for the cold weekend ahead!

tomato soup in black bowl with spoon on white towel

Ingredients

olive oil
onion
garlic
chicken broth or stock
canned diced tomatoes
salt
pepper
macaroni or gluten free macaroni noodles
kielbasa
shredded parmesan cheese or Italian cheese

tomato soup with pasta and sausage in black bowl with spoon

Yield: 6 servings

Homemade Tomato Soup with Sausage and Pasta


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A quick and easy dinner perfect for a cold fall or winter day.

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 25 minutes

Total Time 30 minutes

Ingredients

2 tablespoons olive oil
1 onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
6 cups chicken broth or stock
3 - 14 ounce cans diced tomatoes
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1 cup uncooked macaroni or gluten free macaroni noodles
8 ounces precookied kielbasa, cut into small pieces
1/2 cup shredded parmesan cheese or Italian cheese for serving

Instructions

In a large pot, heat olive oil and add the onion. Reduce the temperature and cook the onions, stirring often until lightly browned and caramelized. This takes 5 - 10 minutes.
Add minced garlic and cook for 1 minute.
Add broth and tomatoes and simmer uncovered for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Carefully puree the mixture in a blender or with an immersion blender (I prefer the immersion blender because hot liquid and blenders do not always mix well).
Return to the heat and bring to a boil.
Stir in pasta.
Reduce heat to medium low and cook for 10 minutes or until pasta is tender.
While pasta is cooking, heat kielbasa in a skillet until browned. You do not have to brown the sausage, but it adds extra flavor.
Stir kielbasa into the soup.
Salt and pepper to taste.
Serve with cheese on top.

Notes

This recipe is gluten-free as long as you use gluten-free pasta and read labels to make sure that your ingredients, like the kielbasa, are gluten-free.

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

Serving Size:

1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 361Total Fat: 23gSaturated Fat: 8gUnsaturated Fat: 15gCholesterol: 48mgSodium: 1982mgCarbohydrates: 22gFiber: 3gSugar: 6gProtein: 18g

Nutritional values are approximate and aren't always accurate.

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Originally posted January 2009. Update January 2026.

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Looking Back January 2016

Have you seen the social media trend where everyone is looking back to 2016? Last week, I saw so many people share pictures and information on social media of themselves in 2016.

This year, I am trying to quiet the noise and focus on the important stuff. The everyday work and home things. I am on social media, but I have drastically reduced my time on it.

However, I do love a good look back, especially when it comes to my site and the food and recipes I have shared over the last eighteen years.

I cannot believe it has been eighteen years!

Instead of sharing photos and information of what I was doing in 2016 on social media, I thought it would be fun to go back to my kitchen in 2016.

Back in 2016, I had three kids that I was homeschooling. I worked online part-time and helped out a bit with my husband’s business. I was also cooking, cleaning and do all the regular everyday home stuff. On top of that, we raised hogs and had a huge garden.

How did I manage to do it all back then? It makes me tired just thinking about it.

Looking through the archives, though, was so much fun.

While scrolling through 2016 on my site, I saw all the recipes I made and found some I had totally forgotten about.

But I found others that, ten years later, are still favorites.

I also realized that I have so many delicious recipe posts in the archives that need to be updated with new images.

I almost decided not to write this post because some of the images are so bad, but I think back in 2016, recipes and photos looked more real. Like real food, you would serve your family, not stage professionally styled photos.

So today I am keeping it real. I bring you a look into my 2016 kitchen, including out-of-date 2016 food photography.

Looking Back January 2016

I cannot believe that I have never updated the pictures on this recipe! They are terrible…

However, the recipe for ground beef stir-fry is so good! I still make this recipe. My husband and I love it for a quick and easy dinner. It is not authentic stir-fry, but it is so good.

Adding this to our menu soon, so I can take better photos.

This gluten free chocolate chip coffee cake is still, ten years later, a favorite recipe.

My daughter made this just last month for Christmas, and everyone loved it.

If you need a special gluten-free breakfast or brunch, this is a must-make!

I am pretty sure I have not updated the pictures on this recipe because every time we make it, it is the holidays, and it gets eaten before any pictures can be taken.

January 2016 was when I posted my all time favorite gluten free dairy free chocolate cake. It is a really old recipe, like fifty-plus years old, that we adapted to gluten-free, dairy-free.

My daughter and I still love this cake. We make it all the time for birthdays, potlucks, and any time we need a special occasion chocolate cake.

We use the batter to make a layer cake, a 9×13 cake, and cupcakes. I definitely need to update the pictures in this post, but we still make the recipe the exact same way.

These fluffy cornmeal pancakes from my Cooking Through My Collection series are a recipe I totally forgot about! I have not made these in years, but I will be making them again soon.

If you need a quick, easy recipe this week, give this 5-ingredient chicken burrito casserole a try. I have made this recipe so many times for a quick and easy dinner or for a meal to take to a friend.

Another recipe I am going to make again soon.

Oven pancakes are all over the online recipe world. Back when I shared my original oven pancake back in 2012, hardly anyone had heard of them.

In January of 2016, I shared my gluten free oven pancake recipe. This works with just about any pancake batter, but the recipe I shared in 2016 calls for indivudal gluten free flours.

I have all kinds of other posts, like menu plans, Everyday Aventures, Ask the Readers, and more.

I hope you enjoyed a look into my 2016 kitchen!

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Menu Plan January Week 3

This week’s menu plan includes recipes like my favorite banana bread, my mom’s lemon bars, baked oatmeal, spaghetti pie, and other recipes perfect for this time of year.

Here is this week’s plan

Menu Plan January Week 3

Lots of quick and easy meals for the week.

Martha Stewart's Buttermilk Waffles

A delicious buttermilk pancake that includes instructions for making them gluten free.

Martha Stewart's Banana Bread

My all time favorite banana bread.

Crock Pot Baked Beans and Sausage

Easy and inexpensive lunch or dinner.

Grilled Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich

If you love peanut butter and jelly you need to try grilled peanut butter and jelly. It takes a basic peanut butter and jelly sandwich to the next level.