Caldo Verde com Chouriço (Portuguese Collard Green Soup)
Caldo Verde com Chouriço (Portuguese Collard Green Soup)

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Great recipe for Caldo Verde com Chouriço (Portuguese Collard Green Soup). Easy, warm comforting, traditional and often served at weddings. It's delicious and very little ingredients needed to make this soup♡ Caldo Verde is a Portuguese soup made with potatoes, collard greens, sliced chouriço or linguiça (smoked Portuguese sausage) and olive oil. It originated in northern Portugal, but nowadays it is a national favorite.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook caldo verde com chouriço (portuguese collard green soup) using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Caldo Verde com Chouriço (Portuguese Collard Green Soup):
  1. Make ready 2 tbs extra virgin olive oil
  2. Make ready 1 chouriço,linguiça or Spanish chorizo sliced in 1/4 inch rounds
  3. Prepare 1 large onion, diced
  4. Prepare to taste Salt and white pepper,
  5. Prepare 3 garlic cloves, minced
  6. Take 6 large potatoes, peeled and chopped
  7. Get 4 cups chicken stock AND 3 cups of water
  8. Make ready 1 pound (medium bunch) collard greens or kale, sliced thin *****

That's why most traditional recipes are so simple and use ingredients like potatoes, carrots, cabbage, collard greens, etc. Really inexpensive food that was easily found in the most rural areas of the country. So, caldo verde is basically a creamy potato soup with collard greens (couve manteiga), and Portuguese chorizo. Caldo verde represents the essence of Portuguese cuisine: simple, rustic, satisfying.

Steps to make Caldo Verde com Chouriço (Portuguese Collard Green Soup):
  1. In a large pot, add your olive oil and brown the chouriço on medium heat. Allow the fat from the sausage to really come out as this helps flavour the soup. Once done, remove chouriço with slotted spoon and set aside
  2. Add the onions and cook until translucent, then add your garlic. Stir to combine
  3. Add your raw potatoes to the pot, stir then add your water and chicken broth. Bring everything to a boil, then reduce heat and let simmer until the potatoes are fork tender
  4. Using a wand blender, puree the soup to a smooth consistency. You want it mostly smooth but a few SMALL potato pieces are fine.
  5. Season with salt and pepper to your taste. Add your collard greens (or kale) and your choiriço back to the pot and bring back up to just a boil, then reduce heat and let simmer for 3-5 min
  6. Serve with bread if desired
  7. ** note: remember to remove the stem from your greens

So, caldo verde is basically a creamy potato soup with collard greens (couve manteiga), and Portuguese chorizo. Caldo verde represents the essence of Portuguese cuisine: simple, rustic, satisfying. Using only five ingredients, most of which are always on hand, it is a humble soup that packs a lot of flavour. I grew up eating caldo verde on a regular ol' weekday after school because it's that easy to whip together but it's so. This looks like a very yummy soup, but Caldo Verde it is not… And a a Portuguese woman, that recipe hurts my eyes… the literal translation of Caldo Verde is Green Broth.

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