How much to cook Kaldu verde?
Cook Kaldu verde for 1 hour.
How to make caldu verde soup
Products
Portuguese or Savoy cabbage - 1 kilogram
Potatoes - 1 kilogram
Olive oil - 6 tablespoons
Garlic - 7 cloves
Chorizo sausage - 500 grams
Onions (medium) - 4 heads
Water -3.5 liters
Salt - 1 tablespoon
How to make Caldu Verde soup
1. Pour water into a saucepan and boil over high heat.
2. Pierce the sausages with a knife in several places.
3. Place the chorizo in boiled water and cook for 5 minutes.
4. Remove the chorizo from the saucepan and cut into 2 centimeter cubes.
5. Wash the cabbage, cut off the coarse parts.
6. Chop the cabbage leaves finely.
7. Peel, wash, cut the potatoes into strips.
8. Peel, wash, and chop onions.
9. Peel the chives, wash and finely grate.
10. Heat olive oil in a saucepan.
11. Pour the onion into the heated oil, fry for 10 minutes over low heat.
12. Add prepared potatoes and chopped garlic to the onion, fry for another 5 minutes.
13. Pour water into a saucepan, salt.
14. Cook for 20 minutes.
15. When the potatoes are cooked, remove 3 ladles of potatoes from the broth and mashed them (with a crush or blender).
16. Return the crushed potatoes to the soup.
17. Add chorizo to the soup and cook for 5 minutes.
18. Put the cabbage in the soup, cook for 4 minutes (it is important not to overcook it so that the cabbage retains its rich color.
The soup is served topped with olive oil.
Fusofacts
- Caldu verde soup is one of the most famous Portuguese dishes, festive hearty soup, which includes potatoes, onions, cabbage, garlic.- An important component soup - chorizo sausage, spicy pork sausage. The main spice used in chorizo is paprika, which gives sausage and caldu verde a reddish hue. In Latin America, hot chili peppers are used instead of paprika. Chorizo meat can be either grinded or finely chopped. Most often, chorizo is sold in a raw smoked or dry-cured version.You can replace the sausage with any raw smoked or dry-cured one, and then add paprika to Caldu Verde.
- Taste, you can chop all the potatoes in Caldu Verde, or you can puree some and leave some chopped.
- Savoy cabbage can be replace young white cabbage or broccoli. The original uses Portuguese (couve gallega), which is practically not found in Russian stores.
- Both Russian and English have slang definition for money, "cabbage". Only if we associate the word "cabbage" with ordinary white cabbage, then Americans mean collard greens. And this is quite logical: the leaves of the Portuguese cabbage kale resemble American dollars in their color.
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Last update Author / Editor - Lydia Ivanova