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30 Minute Easy Portuguese Caldo Verde

Lucy Figueiredo
This authentic Portuguese Caldo Verde soup is incredibly flavorful and super comforting. Whip up a batch of this hearty soup consisting of collard greens and let it feed your soul on a cold winter's night or a hot summer's day!
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Course Soup
Cuisine Portuguese
Servings 6
Calories 155 kcal

Equipment

  • 1 5 quart pot
  • 1 Immersion Blender or food processor

Ingredients
  

  • 6-7 Yukon Gold potatoes cubed
  • 1 small onion chopped
  • 7-8 cups of collard greens thinly sliced
  • 2-3 tbsp of sea salt
  • 3 tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil
  • 1/2 cup of chourico thinly sliced

Instructions
 

  • Peel 6-7 Yukon gold potatoes. Cut them into cubes and rinse them.
  • Chop a small onion into tiny little cubes.
  • Place potatoes and chopped onion in the pot of water.
  • In the meantime, rinse the collard greens piece by piece. Stack leaves on top of one another. Roll into tight rolls and begin cutting as thinly as possible. The thinner, the better.
  • Let potatoes and onion boil until you can pierce potatoes with a fork, and it'll easily go through and slide off the fork.
  • Using an immersion blender, blend potatoes and onions in your pot. If you don’t have an immersion blender, a food processor will work fine too. You will see the water become a little thicker and look cloudy. This is the consistency that you want to have.
  • Once everything in your pot is nice and smooth, add the thinly sliced collard greens.
  • Add salt and pepper and let cook for a few minutes.
  • After 5 minutes taste the collard greens to make sure they are cooked all the way through. Also, take this time to taste for salt. This soup definitely needs a good amount of salt.
  • Once it’s all cooked, you can add in the sliced chourico and let it cook for a few more minutes for the flavors of the chourico to infuse into the soup.
  • Serve in a bowl with a side of freshly made homemade bread!
  • Bom appetite! Enjoy this delicious soup!

Nutrition

Calories: 155kcalCarbohydrates: 13.8gProtein: 5.4gFat: 9.4gSaturated Fat: 1.4gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1.5gMonounsaturated Fat: 5.6gCholesterol: 2.9mgSodium: 2994.9mgPotassium: 374.7mgFiber: 3.4gSugar: 1.2gVitamin A: 60IUVitamin C: 33.3mgCalcium: 19.5mgIron: 8.9mg
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