Kale Bacon And Potato Soup Food

POTATO KALE SOUP

Steps:

• Wash and dry kale.
• Microwave bacon until crisp, set aside until end.
• In Dutch oven, sauté sausage and onion until sausage is brown, remove grease.
• Add garlic, potatoes, stock, fennel, black pepper, and red pepper flakes, bring to low boil, cover, and cook until potatoes are done, about 20 minutes.
• Meanwhile, remove ribs of kale and chop.
• Lower burner to low, remove with slotted spoon about 2 cups potatoes, roughly mash with fork, and stir back into pan.
• Stir in chopped kale, simmer about 4 minutes-- we like kale a bit chewy.
• Add half and half.
• Stir in crumbled bacon, serve.
• NOTE: If freezing, hold off on half and half, add later. You can also put hot soup into bowl and add a tablespoon at a time of the half and half to each bowl. Haven't tried yet in crockpot but assume it would work fine.

KALE, BACON, AND POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• In a deep pot, fry the ground pork. Add oregano, basil, parsley, thyme, garlic powder, onion powder, and red chili pepper flakes, until pork is cooked through. Turn heat down. I cook all of the pork but use only half in the soup and freeze the other half for making more soup another day.
• At the same time, chop up the package of bacon and fry it in a separate pan.
• Chop the 1/2 onion and put it in a large pot. Add the potatoes (when using small potatoes I chop them smaller so they cook faster) minced garlic, and chicken broth. Add water to the pot if you use the chicken broth cubes, if not, then use the broth to boil the potatoes and onions. Use just enough broth/water to cover the potatoes and a bit extra for good measure. (Don't you hate it when recipes are vague? LOL)
• While the above is cooking, wash the kale thoroughly and tear it into bite-sized pieces, discarding the stems. Add all of the kale to the potato/onion/garlic pot before the potatoes are completely cooked.
• Everything should be ready at the same time. Add half of the pork to the potato/garlic/onion/kale pot. Add bacon. Add milk and adjust to taste. I don't like it too milky and like to keep the hot and spicy flavour so I don't dilute it too much.
• Let simmer until the broth is hot and the kale is soft.
• Serve up and try not to eat the whole pot in one sitting! My mouth is watering as I type this recipe!

SAUSAGE, POTATO AND KALE SOUP

Steps:

• Bring a medium pot of water to a boil. Add the potatoes and boil until they're just starting to soften, then drain and set aside.
• In a large pot, crumble and brown the Italian sausage with the onions over medium heat, about 5 minutes. Drain as much of the fat as you can (blotting the surface with paper towels helps). Add the chicken broth, milk, half-and-half, oregano and red pepper flakes to the pot with the sausage and onions, bring to a simmer and simmer for 30 minutes. Give it a taste and adjust the seasoning as needed with salt, pepper and more red pepper flakes if needed.
• Add the potatoes and a splash of heavy cream for richness, then stir in the kale. Cover and simmer for an additional 10 minutes, then serve.

SWEET POTATO AND KALE SOUP

Steps:

• In a large saucepan warm the olive oil over medium heat. Sauté onion, shallot, carrots and celery until the onions are translucent, about 5 minutes.
• Add sweet potatoes, bay leaf, thyme, and enough water to cover by 1 inch.
• Bring soup to a boil, cover, reduce heat and simmer until vegetables are very tender, about 30 minutes.
• Discard bay leaf and thyme branches and puree the soup with a vertical blender. Add sea salt and kale, cover, and cook an additional 10 minutes.

KALE WITH BACON

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, bring 1 in. of water to a boil. Add kale; cook for 10-15 minutes or until tender. Meanwhile, in a large nonstick skillet, cook bacon over medium heat until crisp. Using a slotted spoon, remove to paper towels; drain, reserving 1 teaspoon drippings. In the drippings, saute onions and garlic until onion is tender. , Drain the kale; stir into onion mixture. Add the salt, pepper and reserved bacon; heat through.

POTATO SOUP WITH KALE & BACON

Steps:

• 1. Peel potatoes and put in a pot with enough cold, salted water to cover.
• 2. Cover and bring to a boil.
• 3. Lower heat, uncover, and simmer until done, about 25 minutes.
• 4. Drain, reserving the cooking liquid.
• 5. Break up potatoes with a potato masher; they should be lumpy, not smooth.
• 6. Cook the bacon until crisp.
• 7. Drain and chop.
• 8. Pour off all but 2 tablespoons of the bacon fat, reserving the extra fat.
• 9. Stem and chop the kale.
• 10. Mince the garlic.
• 11. Cook half the kale and half the garlic in the 2 tablespoons bacon fat over medium heat until kale is wilted, about 1 minute.
• 12. Season with salt and pepper and transfer to a bowl.
• 13. Repeat with remaining kale and garlic, using the reserved bacon fat as needed.
• 14. Return all the kale to the frying pan and add the heavy cream.
• 15. Simmer over low heat until the kale is tender, about 10 minutes.
• 16. Mince the chives.
• 17. Recipe can be made to this point several hours ahead.
• 18. Cooking and Serving: Combine potatoes with about 4 cups of the reserved cooking liquid in a large pot.
• 19. Add more cooking liquid or water if too thick.
• 20. Add kale mixture to the pot and bring to a simmer.
• 21. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
• 22. Pour into bowls and sprinkle with chives and bacon.