Turkey Sausage Barley Soup - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 tablespoon olive oil
1 large onion, diced
3/4 pound bulk turkey sausage
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 (32 fluid ounce) container chicken stock
6 ounces frozen chopped spinach
2 teaspoons kosher salt
ground black pepper to taste
1/3 cup barley

Preparation

Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium heat. Cook and stir onion in hot oil until soft, about 5 minutes. Add turkey sausage and garlic, breaking sausage into small pieces with a wooden spoon; cook and stir until sausage is browned, about 5 minutes. Pour chicken stock over the sausage mixture. Stir spinach into broth; bring to a simmer and season with kosher salt and black pepper. Bring the soup to a boil, reduce heat to medium-low, and cook at a simmer for 20 minutes.
Stir barley into the soup and continue to cook until the barley is tender, about 1 hour.