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Caldo Verde a Minhota (Northern Portuguese Kale Soup)

Name: Caldo Verde a Minhota (Northern Portuguese Kale Soup)
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Portugal
Ingredients: potatoes, cubed 500 g; kale, shredded 200 g; chourico, sliced 150 g; onion, chopped 100 g; garlic cloves 8 g; olive oil 40 ml; water 800 ml; fine salt 6 g; black pepper 2 g

A light potato and kale soup finished with sliced chourico.

40 minutes · 4 servings · Easy

The Minho version of caldo verde comes from a green, wet stretch of northern coast where kale grew in nearly every yard, and it is much lighter than its colour suggests. Potato and water do the body, the kale goes in almost at the end, and chouriço is the only rich element in the bowl. It tastes most like itself in cold, damp weather.

Ingredients

potatoes, cubed500 g
kale, shredded200 g
chourico, sliced150 g
onion, chopped100 g
garlic cloves8 g
olive oil40 ml
water800 ml
fine salt6 g
black pepper2 g

Directions

1
Soften onion and garlic in oil 5 minutes.
2
Add potatoes and water; simmer 18 minutes until tender.
3
Blend soup smooth.
4
Return to pot; add kale; simmer 5 minutes.
5
Pan-sear sausage 3 minutes; float on soup.

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