Caldo Verde With Sausage

Submitted by Graybert

"A favorite of mine - one of mom's recipes!"

 

• Ready In: 45mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Serves: 8

ingredients

• 59.16 ml olive oil
• 1 onion, minced
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 6 potatoes, peeled and thinly sliced
• 1892.0 ml cold water
• 226.79 g chorizo sausage, thinly sliced
• 9.85 ml salt
• ground black pepper, to taste
• 453.59 g kale, rinsed and thin cut or julienne

directions

1. In a large saucepan over medium heat, cook onion and garlic in 3 tablespoons olive oil for 3 or 4 minutes.
2. Stir in potatoes and cook, stirring constantly, 3 or 4 minutes more.
3. Pour in water, bring to a boil, and let boil gently for 20 minutes, until potatoes are real mushy.
4. Meanwhile, in a large skillet over medium-low heat, cook sausage until it has release most of its fat, 10 minutes.
5. Drain.
6. Mash potatoes or puree.
7. Add the sausage, salt and pepper into the soup and return to medium heat.
8. Cover and simmer 5 minutes.
9. Just before serving, stir kale into soup and simmer, until kale is tender and jade green.
10. Stir in the remaining tablespoon of olive oil and serve at once.

Reviews

[quotPink Eyedquot J]

Awesome recipe! Easy, healthy, cheap. I've been meaning to eat more kale, and now that I've made this recipe once, I know eating kale more often won't be a problem at all. I was lucky enough to have a bit of home made chicken stock in which I cooked the potatoes.

 

[mommymakeit4u]

I used 2 cups of chicken broth for extra flavor. What a delicious soup!

 

[razzintaz]

Go to a good deli and get GOOD chorizo! Not mexican! YOu want good european chorizo. Has flavor. Used only 1/4 pound kale, as had kids eating and that was almost too much for them to handle. green floaties!!

 

[Rosealicious Chef]

This is the way it should be done!! To be honest, this is better Caldo verde than my husband’s family make (who are, by the way, Portuguese). Thanks for posting, Graybert! This one's a keeper!

 

[Mia 3]

Hello from Portugal! I COULD'NT of written the receipe out better myself. You have this down packed, its great after a meal of grilled sardines, oh yes don't forget the cornbread (Broa) serve with your Caldo Verde.Mmmmm..