Sausage Vegetable Soup With Dumplings - cooking recipe

Ingredients

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

Preparation

Put the 4 cups of water, the V8 juice and the vegetable broth into a medium sized pot.
Crumble the uncooked sausage into small pieces and add to pot.
Add the potatoes, carrots, onion, cabbage, and red peppers and the salt, pepper and chili powder to the pot.
Press the pizza dough as flat as possible then cut into small pieces about 1 x 2 inches, which will become the dumplings.
Sprinkle the flour on the dumplings and set aside.
When the vegetables are almost tender add the dumplings and flour into the soup and simmer for about 10 more minutes.
Season with more salt and pepper if needed.