95 minutes•Easy•Serves 6
Tuscan-Style Chicken and White Bean Stew (Modified) (Variation)
By @chef1
Remixed from Tuscan-Style Chicken and White Bean Stew
Based on "Tuscan-Style Chicken and White Bean Stew". A hearty and flavorful stew featuring chicken, turkey bacon, sweet Italian chicken sausage, mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, and spinach in a savory broth with Tuscan herbs and a touch of balsamic vinegar.
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Ingredients
- ●1.5 lbs chicken pieces
- ●4 oz turkey bacon
- ●8 oz sweet Italian chicken sausage
- ●8 oz mushrooms
- ●1 pint cherry tomatoes
- ●5 oz spinach
- ●1 (15-ounce) can white beans
- ●6 cups chicken broth
- ●1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
- ●1 tsp dried rosemary
- ●1/2 tsp dried sage
- ●2 tbsp fresh parsley
- ●2 tbsp olive oil
- ●1/2 tsp salt
- ●1/4 tsp black pepper
Instructions
- 1In a large pot or Dutch oven, heat olive oil over medium heat.
- 2Add turkey bacon and cook until lightly browned. Add sweet Italian chicken sausage and mushrooms, cook until browned.
- 3Add chicken and cook until browned.
- 4Add rosemary and sage and cook until fragrant.
- 5Pour in chicken broth and bring to a simmer.
- 6Add white beans.
- 7Simmer until chicken is cooked through, about 30 minutes.
- 8Add halved cherry tomatoes 10-15 minutes before the end of cooking.
- 9Stir in spinach until wilted.
- 10Stir in balsamic vinegar.
- 11Season with salt and pepper to taste.
- 12Garnish with fresh parsley before serving.
Recipe details
- Cuisine
- Italian-inspired
- Category
- Main course
- Preparation
- 18 minutes
- Cooking
- 77 minutes
Estimated total: 95 minutes. Planning estimate from stated duration midpoints and documented preparation/heating allowances; overlapping tasks counted once.
How these estimates were calculated
- Cut chicken, bacon, sausage and vegetables: 10 min planning allowance (meat_prep)
- Heat pot: 3 min planning allowance (pan_preheat)
- Brown turkey bacon: 8 min planning allowance (saute)
- Brown sausage and mushrooms: 8 min planning allowance (saute)
- Brown chicken in two batches: 8 min planning allowance (sear_batch)
- Warm herbs: 1 min planning allowance (finish_warm)
- Heat six cups broth to simmer: 10 min planning allowance (boil_heat)
- Add white beans: 2 min planning allowance (transfer)
- Wilt spinach: 1 min planning allowance (finish_warm)
- Stir in vinegar: 2 min planning allowance (transfer)
- Adjust seasoning: 2 min planning allowance (transfer)
- Garnish and serve: 2 min planning allowance (garnish)
- Two chicken-browning batches assumed. Tomato cooking is inside the stated 30-minute simmer, not added to it.
- Generic raw chicken meat for stewing.
- Matched to unprepared turkey bacon.
- sweet Italian chicken sausage: Al Fresco manufacturer label: 78 g link, 110 kcal, 6 g fat, 2 g carbohydrate, 13 g protein, 500 mg sodium; fiber not reported. Accessed 2026-10-21. Brand approximation. (https://www.alfrescoallnatural.com/product/sweet-italian-style-chicken-sausage/)
- Al Fresco sweet Italian cooked chicken sausage as a disclosed standard brand reference; actual flavor and brand vary.
- Generic white mushrooms selected for unspecified type.
- cherry tomatoes: USDA cup cherry tomatoes portion weight
- Matched to raw red ripe cherry tomatoes. 1 pint assumed to be 2 cups.
- Matched to raw spinach.
- white beans: Stated package net weight
- Matched to canned white beans.
- chicken broth: USDA cup portion weight
- Matched to ready-to-serve chicken broth.
- balsamic vinegar: USDA tbsp portion weight
- dried rosemary: USDA tsp portion weight
- dried sage: USDA tsp portion weight
- USDA ground sage used for dried sage; grind affects packing density.
- fresh parsley: USDA tbsp portion weight
- Fresh parsley is used as a garnish and is explicitly removed/discarded by the instructions. However, the instructions state "Garnish with fresh parsley before serving." and do not explicitly say to re
- olive oil: USDA tablespoon portion weight
- salt: USDA tsp portion weight
- Table salt; unknown quantity means sodium is omitted, not guessed.
- black pepper: USDA tsp, ground portion weight
- USDA black pepper; documented seasoning allowance applies only to to-taste/pinch amounts.
- chicken pieces: 680.39 g · USDA reference 172402
- turkey bacon: 113.4 g · USDA reference 174592
- sweet Italian chicken sausage: 226.8 g · Food reference
- mushrooms: 226.8 g · USDA reference 169251
- cherry tomatoes: 298 g · USDA reference 170457
- spinach: 141.75 g · USDA reference 168462
- white beans: 425.24 g · USDA reference 175204
- chicken broth: 1494 g · USDA reference 174536
- balsamic vinegar: 16 g · USDA reference 172241
- dried rosemary: 1.2 g · USDA reference 171333
- dried sage: 0.35 g · USDA reference 170935
- fresh parsley: 7.6 g · USDA reference 170416
- olive oil: 27 g · USDA reference 171413
- salt: 3 g · USDA reference 173468
- black pepper: 0.57 g · USDA reference 170931
chicken · white beans · mushrooms · turkey bacon
Estimated nutrition per serving
426 calories · 42.6 g protein · 22.2 g carbohydrate · 18.9 g fat · 1917 mg sodium
Source and basis: USDA FoodData Central and reviewed product references; ingredient-based calculation per serving. Documented USDA or manufacturer portion weights; all listed ingredient mass included before cooking losses. Nutrients with incomplete inputs omitted. Full ingredient matches and assumptions below.
Recipe Context
This recipe was created with the following context in mind:
Sunday
late dinner
winter
Requested: 8 min
1 person
Craving: italian