Caldo Verde Portuguese Green Soup Recipes

Steps:

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

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, heat the oil over moderate heat. Add the onion and garlic and cook for 5 minutes or until onion is tender.
• Add the broth and potatoes. Bring to a boil. Lower the heat and simmer, covered, for 30 minutes or until potatoes are very soft. Using a potato masher or large spoon, slightly mash potatoes to thicken soup.
• Stir in the spinach, kielbasa, salt, and pepper. Simmer, uncovered, for 5 minutes more until heated through.

Steps:

• In a medium soup pot, heat 3 tablespoons of olive oil, add onions and garlic and cook for 2 to 3 minutes until they turn glassy, don't let them get brown. Add potatoes and water. Cover and boil gently over medium heat for 20 minutes. Meanwhile, in a skillet cook sausage until most of the fat is rendered out. Drain and reserve. When the potatoes are tender mash them with a potato masher right in the pot. Add sausage to the soup, and then add the kale. Simmer for 5 minutes. Add the remaining olive oil and season. Ladle into bowls and serve.

Steps:

• Slice sausage into 1/4-inch rounds. Heat oil in a pot over medium-high heat. Add sausage and saute until sausage begins to turn brown and renders some fat, 3 to 5 minutes. Transfer with a slotted spoon to a dish. Reduce heat to medium-low; add onions and pinch of salt salt. Stir and cook until softened, 4 to 5 minutes.
• Transfer potatoes to pot. Sprinkle in 2 teaspoons salt. Pour in chicken broth. Increase heat to high and bring to a simmer. Reduce heat to medium-low; simmer until potatoes are tender, 8 to 10 minutes.
• When potatoes are tender, carefully mash them in the broth with a potato masher until broken up or completely mashed. Add kale, a handful at a time. Transfer browned sausage to soup. Bring to a simmer over medium-high heat. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until greens are tender, about 45 minutes.

Steps:

• Peel potatoes and slice thinly, about 1/8" thick.
• Heat oil in a large stockpot over medium-high heat.
• Then, add potatoes and brown.
• This will give the soup a deep color and rich potato taste.
• Add onions and red pepper flakes, and cook until onions turn soft.
• Stir in garlic, then add broth and bring to boil.
• Reduce heat and simmer 10–15 minutes until potatoes are done.
• Meanwhile, peel casing from pepperoni.
• Slice pepperoni into 1/4"-thick pieces.
• Heat skillet over medium heat and add slices.
• Render and lightly brown on both sides.
• Drain on paper towels.
• When potatoes are cooked, use a potato masher to mash the slices—but don’t cream them!
• Try to simply chunk them enough so the broth thickens.
• Now add the drained pepperoni.
• In batches, stack stemmed kale and slice into shreds.
• Add and cook 2–3 minutes.
• Season with salt.
• Just before serving, stir in lemon juice.
• Acid turns the kale army-green if added too early.

Steps:

• Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a 5-quart heavy pot over medium-high heat until it shimmers, then brown sausage, stirring often, 2 to 3 minutes. Transfer with a slotted spoon to a bowl. Add 2 tablespoon oil to fat in pot and cook onion and garlic with 1/4 teaspoon each of salt and pepper over medium heat, stirring often, until browned, 7 to 8 minutes.
• Add potatoes, water, and 1 teaspoon salt and simmer, covered, until potatoes are very tender, 15 to 20 minutes. Mash some potatoes into soup to thicken, then add kale and simmer, uncovered, until tender, about 5 minutes. Stir in sausage and cook until just heated through, 1 to 2 minutes. Drizzle with remaining tablespoon oil and season with salt and pepper.

Steps:

• Wash the kale and cut off any stems.
• Slice into thin shreds.
• Put the potatoes, water, oil, salt and pepper in a saucepan and bring to a boil.
• Lower the heat and cook slowly, covered, for about 25 minutes, or until the potatoes are tender.
• Remove from the stove, and put the mixture through a sieve or puree it.
• Return to the saucepan; add the strips of kale.
• Continue to cook about 12 minutes longer, or until the kale is tender.
• Add the sausage rounds, and leave on the stove long enough to heat through.
• Menu: Portuguese Green Soup,Warm Garlic Bread, Baked Bananas in Orange Juice.
• Soups & Stews One Dish Meals.

Steps:

• Pour the oil into soup pot and saute onions for five minutes.
• Add the potatoes, cabbage, chicken stock, wine, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil and reduce the heat and cover the pot. Simmer for an hour. Turn off the heat and let soup rest for 10 minutes.
• Serve hot.

Steps:

• 1. In a large pot, heat the olive oil over medium heat. Add the onions and cook until they are translucent. Add the garlic and half the chouriço and cook for 2 minutes. Add the potatoes, cover everything with the water, bring to a boil and lower the heat, simmering until the potatoes are almost done, about 15 minutes.
• 2. When the soup is cool enough to handle, purée it in the food processor and return to the pot. Add the greens, bring everything back to a boil and simmer for 2 minutes. Season with salt and pepper, ladle into bowls and garnish with the remaining cubes of chouriço.