Portuguese Kale Soup Recipe By Tasty Food

PORTUGUESE KALE SOUP

Steps:

• Heat a deep soup pot set over medium heat. Add the schmaltz to render, then add the onions and cover to sweat until soft, 7 to 8 minutes. Add the garlic, then cover and sweat, without browning, until soft, 4 to 5 minutes. Add the sausage and sweat, covered, until the mixture turns amber in color, 4 to 5 minutes. Add the kale, pushing it down to get it all in the pot. Season with salt and pepper. Cook uncovered, stirring occasionally until the kale cooks down by half, is incorporated into the onion-sausage mix and is covered with schmaltz, about 30 minutes.
• Add the Rich Chicken Broth, stir well, then cover the pot and simmer for 1 hour.
• Meanwhile, cook the beans. Drain the beans and place in a medium pot. Cover with fresh cold water, then cover and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer until tender, 25 to 30 minutes.
• Drain and add the beans to the soup. Add the potatoes to a medium pot set over medium-high heat and cover with cold water. Cook until almost cooked through (the potatoes will continue to cook after they're drained). Drain the potatoes then lay them out in single layer on a sheet tray and refrigerate to stop the cooking process.
• When cool add the potatoes to the soup, bring back to a simmer and add the hot sauce. Serve hot.
• Place the chickens in a large stockpot and add enough water to cover, about 2 gallons. Bring to a boil, skimming the scum as it surfaces.
• When all the scum is removed and the stock is boiling add the onions, celery, thyme, bay leaves, carrots, garlic, parsley and peppercorns. Bring back to a boil, lower the heat to a slow boil, then cover and simmer until the flavor develops, 4 to 6 hours.
• Cool the stock and refrigerate overnight allowing the flavors to marry.
• Remove the fat (schmaltz) from the top of the broth to use in the kale soup. Strain the broth and use as you please! Yield: 1 1/2 gallons

PORTUGUESE KALE SOUP RECIPE BY TASTY

Steps:

• In a large soup pot in olive oil, saute the sausage on medium heat until browning and fragrant. Set meat aside.
• In the same pot, refresh olive oil and add in onions and saute until translucent. Once cooked, add in garlic and add the sausage in to combine.
• Pour in 4 cups of chicken broth and add in potatoes.
• Add kidney beans, navy beans, and bay leaves. Simmer for 5-10 minutes.
• Finally, add in shredded kale, cook down, and add water to create more broth if desired. Simmer for 30-40 minutes until completely combined.
• Discard bay leaves,
• Serve with crusty bread and butter.

HEARTY PORTUGUESE KALE SOUP

Steps:

• Remove casing from sausage and cut into smaller than bit sized pieces.
• Heat oil in a heavy soup pot; saute the sausage& onion just until the fat is rendered, about 3 to 5 minutes.
• Drain on paper towels.
• Add other ingredients except kale,& pasta.
• Bring to boil and simmer 10 minutes.
• Add kale, and pasta and simmer about 8 minutes until both are tender.
• Taste for seasoning- depending on how spicy your sausage is, add salt and pepper to taste.
• Serve piping hot.

PORTUGUESE KALE SOUP

Steps:

• Wash kale under running water.
• Strip from tough stem, coarse chop and set aside.
• In the food processor, using the medium shredder blade, shred cabbage, drain and rinse beans.
• Heat the olive oil in a large stock pot, add sausage, chopped onion and minced garlic.
• Cook, stirring occasionally until the onion is transparent.
• Add remaining ingredients, bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for about 45 minutes to 1 hour.
• Adjust chicken stock as needed for desired consistency.
• Add salt and pepper to taste, remove bay leaf and serve hot with a coarse bread.

CAPE COD PORTUGUESE KALE SOUP

Steps:

• Soak beans overnight in cold water. In morning, drain beans.
• ("OR" used canned beans and cut down cooking time.).
• In large pot, add beans, onions, sausage, kale, salt/pepper, vinegar, beef broth and 2 cups of the water.
• Bring to boil. Reduce heat, cook gently for 3 hours.
• Add potatoes and 1 or 2 cups more water.
• Continue cooking until potatoes are tender.

EASY PORTUGUESE KALE SOUP

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a stock pot over medium heat. Cook and stir onion and garlic in the hot oil until fragrant, about 1 minute. Add kielbasa; cook and stir until browned, about 5 minutes. Stir potatoes into kielbasa mixture, season with salt and pepper, and continue to cook and until the potatoes begin to brown, about 2 minutes.
• Pour chicken broth and water into the stock pot; add kidney beans, carrots, and kale. Bring the mixture to a boil, reduce heat to medium-low, and cook at a simmer for 45 minutes.
• Stir macaroni into the soup; continue cooking until the macaroni is tender yet firm to the bite, about 15 minutes. more. Top each bowl with 1 tablespoon Parmesan cheese to serve.

PORTUGUESE CHOURICO AND KALE SOUP

Steps:

• Heat oil in a deep pot over medium high heat. Add potatoes and onions, cover and cook 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Add garlic, bay leaves, and kale to the pot. Cover pot and wilt greens 2 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Add beans, tomatoes, chourico, and broth to the pot and bring soup to a full boil. Reduce heat back to medium and cook 5 to 10 minutes longer or until potatoes are tender.
• Serve soup with hunks of crusty bread and butter.
• Cook's Note: If you are in Mystic, ask for cherise (phonetic pronunciation), if you want to sample the chourico.

SKINNY PORTUGUESE KALE AND POTATO SOUP (CALDO VERDE)

Steps:

• In a large pot, cook chourico or sausage over low heat. Turn and cook until brown, about 10 minutes. Remove from pot and let cool. Cut sausage into slices. Remove any fat from pot, but leave the cooked on bits.
• Add oil to pot, add onion and cook on medium until translucent, about 5 minutes. Add garlic and cook 1 minute more. As you stir, scrape up the bits from the bottom of the pan.
• Add broth potatoes, and black pepper, bring to a boil and cook 20 minutes. Remove the pot from heat and either lightly mash the potatoes with a potato masher or food processor, or I like to use my immersion blender to puree the entire mixture.
• Add chourico or sausage, red pepper flakes and bring back to a simmer. Cook covered for about 4 minutes. Add kale and bring back to a simmer. Cook partially covered until the kale is cooked. Adjust salt if needed.

PORTUGUESE KALE SOUP (WITH VEGGIE VERSION)

Steps:

• Dump the potatoes in a big old stock pot with the garlic, the wine and about a gallon of water or stock, about a tbs of salt, a few dashes of hot sauce, the two apple halves and the bay leaves.
• Heat on medium with a lid.
• While the potatoes soften, simmer the chourico in a smallish sauce pan.
• Add a little olive oil if it's really lean sausage.
• Cover it and simmer on low (you want to save all the savory, spicey yumminess to stay right there in the pan!) When the potatoes are good and soft, mash them.
• (I take the apples out-- they should be floating -- for a sweeter soup, leave them in, but take the peels off.) I mash them right there in the stock pot, but some people like to strain them out, smash'em and then put them back inches.
• Whatever you do,*don't* dump out all of the wonderful broth the potatoes have created for you.
• Don't smash them entirely if you like a nice chunky soup.
• When the chourico is all cooked (I tell by the consistency.) put the onions in the pan and put the lid back on.
• Turn off the heat, and let the onions start to wilt in the pan.
• Let the potato broth simmer without a lid for about 1/2 hour.
• Taste it.
• Adjust salt/pepper.
• Take out the Bay Leaves Add the Kale, the Chourico/Onion mixture, the thyme, turmeric (about 1 tsp each), the tomatoes and the beans.
• Let it simmer with the lid off for about 1/2 hour.
• Taste it, adjust it.
• Add the juice of about the 1/4 of the lemon.
• Continue to simmer and taste for about 1 hour or so adjusting lemon, spices, salt, and hot sauce.
• Serve with some crusty bread, and parmesean cheese to put on top.