Caldo Verde
Cheaper than chips, more delicious and will feed a family of four to six with no worries at all for less than $20! Winning.
One of the recipes I brought back from sunny Portugal! This soup is often served as a starter, (they eat a LOT in Portugal!) but it is also cheap as chips…cheaper maybe. It is very comforting and especially good served with a big basket of bread, as they do in Lisbon!
Watch this space for some more delish recipes inspired by my travels. I am still collating all the pics and ideas. But there is loads more where this came from!
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Need
- 2 brown onion peeled and halved
- 10 cloves garlic
- 20 Grams Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) BUY
- 2 Teaspoons smoked paprika
- 700 Grams potatoes, peeled and diced
- 3 Tablespoons Chicken Stock Powder Recipe
- 1 Litre water
- pink salt flakes and pepper to taste BUY
- 1/2 Bunch kale, destalked, sliced thinly
- 1 lemons juice and zest
- 200 Grams cured chorizo, sliced
Do
- 1
Place onion, garlic and EVOO in the Thermomix bowl. Chop 5 sec/speed 6. Sauté 5 min/Varoma/speed 1.
- 2
Add paprika, cook 1 min/Varoma/speed 1.
- 3
Add potatoes, chicken stock powder and water. Cook 20 min/100°C/Reverse/speed 0.5.
- 4
Take out about 1 cup of cooked potato and set aside.
- 5
Blend remaining soup 20 sec/speed 8. Taste and season with salt and pepper as needed.
- 6
Add kale and the reserved potato. Cook 5 min/100°C/Reverse/speed 0.5.
- 7
Add lemon juice. adjust seasoning if needed.
- 8
In a hot pan, fry chorizo until crispy. Save the fat.
- 9
Serve soup with freshly grated lemon zest, cooked chorizo and a drizzle of the chorizo fat and loads of bread, and I mean loads!
Served with
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