Caldo Verde (Original video)

Caldo Verde is a comforting Portuguese soup made with chorizo, potatoes, and kale. This hearty dish is perfect for warming up on a chilly day.

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Ingredients:

• 3 chorizo sausages
• 1 onion
• garlic
• potatoes
• chicken stock
• kale
• salt
• pepper
• olive oil or other cooking oil
• red chili oil

Instructions:

1. Slice the chorizo: The chorizo sausages are sliced into rounds.
2. Brown the chorizo: The sliced chorizo is added to a pan and cooked until browned and some of its fat has rendered.
3. Remove chorizo: The browned chorizo is removed from the pan, leaving the rendered fat behind.
4. Dice the onion: An onion is peeled and diced.
5. Mince the garlic: Several cloves of garlic are minced.
6. Sauté onion and garlic: The diced onion and minced garlic are added to the pan with the chorizo fat and sautéed until softened and translucent.
7. Add potatoes: Cubed potatoes are added to the pan and stirred with the onion and garlic mixture.
8. Add chicken stock: Chicken stock is poured into the pan, covering the potatoes and other ingredients.
9. Simmer the soup: The soup is brought to a boil, then the lid is placed on the pot, and it is simmered.
10. Blend the soup: An immersion blender is used to blend the soup until smooth.
11. Season with pepper: Ground pepper is added to the soup.
12. Add back chorizo: The reserved browned chorizo is added back into the soup.
13. Chop kale: Kale is finely chopped.
14. Add kale to soup: The chopped kale is added to the soup and stirred in.
15. Serve the soup: The soup is ladled into a bowl.
16. Garnish: The soup is garnished with the sliced chorizo on top, and a swirl of red chili oil is drizzled around the edges of the bowl and on top of the chorizo.
17. Taste: The soup is tasted from a spoon.