To make this recipe gluten free, use gluten-free sausage.

Cover with water to 2 inches above the beans; cover and let stand 8 hours.

Place the beans in a 5- to 6-quart slow cooker.

White beans in a slow-cooker getting mashed with a potato masher

Photographer: Jen Causey, Food Stylist: Margret Monroe Dickey

Add the stock, tomato, salt, pepper, garlic, and rosemary sprigs.

Cover and cook on LOW until the beans are tender, about 7 hours.

Add the spinach and parsley, stirring just until the spinach begins to wilt.

slow-cooker white bean, spinach & sausage stew

Discard the rosemary sprigs.

Ladle the stew into bowls; drizzle evenly with the oil before serving.

Add the stock, tomato, salt, pepper, garlic, and rosemary sprigs.

Lock the lid; turn Pressure Valve to “Venting.”

Cook on SLOW COOK [Normal] until the beans are tender, about 7 hours.

Turn off the cooker.

In Step 2, add the sausage to the mashed bean mixture in the pot.

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