Portuguese Green Soup Recipe

Serves 6 to 8

Ingredients:

  • 1/4 cup olive oil
  • 1 cup chopped onion
  • 2 tsp chopped garlic
  • 2 cups Idaho potatoes, peeled and thinly sliced
  • 2 qts water
  • 6 oz Chorizo sausage, thinly sliced
  • Salt and black pepper
  • 1 lb kale, washed, trimmed of the thick stems and thinly sliced

    • Instructions:

    1. 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.
    2. Add potatoes and water.
    3. Cover and boil gently over medium heat for 20 minutes.
    4. Meanwhile, in a skillet cook sausage until most of the fat is rendered out.
    5. Drain and reserve.
    6. When the potatoes are tender mash them with a potato masher right in the pot.
    7. Add sausage to the soup, and then add the kale.
    8. Simmer for 5 minutes.
    9. Add the remaining olive oil and season.
    10. Ladle into bowls and serve.