Spray a soup pot with some non-stick cooking spray and begin to sauté the onion, garlic and celery. Add the sausage and break apart while it browns. Add the potatoes and continue to cook everything until the sausage is no longer pink.
3 cloves of garlic diced, 1 lb fresh pork sausage, 5 celery stalks chopped, 3 O'Henery Potatoes cut into small squares, 1 onion chopped
Add the broth and bring it to a boil
8 cups low sodium chicken broth
Once it boils, lower to a simmer and prepare the chard.
1 bunch swish chard
I decided not to put all the chard in the soup as it wilts and wilts fast! Instead I removed the stalks.
To remove all you need to do is grab the leafy part and pull upward. I did this with each leave, then loosely shopped and placed in a large ziplock back with a paper towel to help keep them fresh.
When I was ready to serve I grabbed a handful of the chard and put it in a bowl.
Then I simply poured the soup overtop.
The hot soup wilts the chard perfectly without overcooking it. In my opinion this is the secret to soups with greens in them. You almost have to treat them as a garnish more then a major ingredients because if you add them too early they get overcooked and just make the soup look unappetizing.