Italian Spinach Soup

This is delicious and healthy soup with lots of spinach.I usually like to cook my own chicken/beef broth, but its not necessary.You can use store bought also.Since I cooked chicken broth, Of course I'm not going to waste chicken so I added some to the soup.This recipe was adapted from Marcella Hazan's Essential's of Italian cooking with few of my changes.

Ingredients:

1 lb. Spinach chopped

1 onion chopped

6 tbsp. Butter

3 cups  yellow young potatoes  cut into quarters then ¼ inch sliced

2 1/2 cups 2% milk

7 cups chicken broth ( you can use vegetable broth also)

1 tsp. Freshly grated nutmeg

5 tbsp. Freshly grated Parmesan cheese

salt and pepper

Directions:

Put butter and onion in to a large pot and turn to a medium heat. Saute when the onion is soft and slightly golden in color. Add the spinach and saute until the spinach is soft.stirring about 3-4 minutes.

Add milk,broth, and nutmeg. Bring to simmer stirring occasionally. Add Parmesan cheese,salt and pepper.

Turn off the heat and serve into bowls with  toast or crostini on the side.

Optional: add fresh ground pepper to the bowl.