Cabbage And Smoked Sausage Soup

• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 pound smoked sausage, sliced
• 3 cups water
• 1 head cabbage, cored and coarsely chopped
• 3 carrots, sliced
• 3 stalks celery, sliced
• 1/3 cup uncooked long grain white rice
• 1 (15 ounce) can red beans, with liquid
• 1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce
• 1 (28 ounce) can crushed tomatoes
• 2 cubes chicken bouillon
• salt to taste
• 1 bay leaf
• 1/2 teaspoon crushed dried thyme

1. Heat the vegetable oil in a large pot over medium heat, and cook the onion until lightly browned. Place sausage in the pot, and pour in water. Mix in cabbage, carrots, celery, rice, beans, tomato sauce, and crushed tomatoes. Dissolve bouillon in the mixture. Season with salt, bay leaf, and thyme. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low, and cook at least 1 hour, until vegetables are tender and rice is cooked.

vegetable oil, onion, sausage, water, cabbage, carrots, stalks celery, long grain white rice, red beans, tomato sauce, tomatoes, chicken bouillon, salt, bay leaf, thyme

Taken from www.allrecipes.com/recipe/77836/cabbage-and-smoked-sausage-soup/ (may not work)