Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, caldo verde com chouriço (portuguese collard green soup). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Caldo verde—one of Portugal's most recognizable dishes—is a simple potato soup, enlivened with vibrant slivers of collard greens and slices of spicy chouriço. Caldo Verde is a simple and delicious soup, made from thinly-sliced collard greens, potatoes and chouriço (smoked Portuguese sausage). In this version, the broth is thickened with pureed potatoes, but if you prefer a thinner or clear broth, you can reduce the number of potatoes and skip the pureeing step! Caldo Verde is a Portuguese soup made with potatoes, collard greens, sliced chouriço or linguiça (smoked Portuguese sausage) and olive oil.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have caldo verde com chouriço (portuguese collard green soup) using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Caldo Verde com Chouriço (Portuguese Collard Green Soup):
- Get extra virgin olive oil
- Get chouriço,linguiça or Spanish chorizo sliced in 1/4 inch rounds
- Get large onion, diced
- Prepare Salt and white pepper,
- Make ready garlic cloves, minced
- Take large potatoes, peeled and chopped
- Prepare chicken stock AND 3 cups of water
- Take (medium bunch) collard greens or kale, sliced thin *****
Try it out and tell us what you think! In a large pot over medium heat, warm the oil. Using a slotted spoon remove the sausage to a plate. Try to let the sausage drain well into the pot; its fat will flavor the soup.
Instructions to make Caldo Verde com Chouriço (Portuguese Collard Green Soup):
- 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
- Add the onions and cook until translucent, then add your garlic. Stir to combine
- 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
- Using a wand blender, puree the soup to a smooth consistency. You want it mostly smooth but a few SMALL potato pieces are fine.
- 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
- Serve with bread if desired
- ** note: remember to remove the stem from your greens
Using a slotted spoon remove the sausage to a plate. Try to let the sausage drain well into the pot; its fat will flavor the soup. Dump the onions into the pot. Today we're going on a journey to Portugal were the classic green soup, "Caldo Verde" is probably the most loved and well known soup in the country. Caldo Verde, originated in the northern Minho region of Portugal and is made with basic ingredients of potato and onion puree, and collard greens.
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