Name: Caldo Verde (Portuguese Soup with Potato, Sausage, and Greens)
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Portugal
Ingredients: 12 scrubbed small red potatoes or 6 peeled large boiling potatoes, cut into ½-inch dice (5 to 6 cups); 8 cups Chicken Stock; 6 to 8 cups chiffonade of greens, such as Swiss chard, escarole, and/or kale; Salt and freshly ground pepper; ¾ pound Chorizo or Linguisa; 2 tablespoons olive oil; 4 cups finely diced onions; 2 cloves garlic, very finely minced

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Mediterranean Kitchen

By Joyce Goldstein

Published 1998

About

This is the Portuguese national soup. You may choose to make your own sausage or buy a good commercial sausage that has a little kick to it.

Verde in the title represents the greens, traditionally kale. We have made this soup with Swiss chard, kale, and escarole. You may want to use an assortment of the three. Just be sure to cut the greens into a very, very thin chiffonade. Roll up the leaves like a cigar and slice ⅛ inch thick.

Some people like the potatoes in this