Portugese kale and sausage soup

[mairim]

This is my first effort at translating a favorite recipe to the Thermomix.  I followed an Internet recipe for this soup, but changed it to reflect the way I've always made this.  The soup makes an entire, and delicious, meal.


Portugese Kale and Sausage Soup
4 portions
Ingredients:
450-500g baking potatoes, peeled, cut in small cubes
230-250g brown onion
1 clove garlic
200g kale
450-500g chorizo or linguica sausage, in 2 cm slices
500g water
1 tsp. chicken stock paste
3 Roma tomatoes, stem end removed, cut in small pieces
1 Tbsp. balsamic vinegar
2 tsp. salt
Pepper to taste



Preparation:
Peel garlic and drop onto TM blades speed 6. scrape down sides of bowl.
Cut onion into chunks, place in TM bowl, 5 sec/speed 5
Add sausage, saute 5 min/90/soft stir with TM cap off.
Add water, chicken stock paste, potatoes, balsamic vinegar and salt.  Place kale in steamer. Cook 25min/Varoma/speed1.
Add pepper to taste, cut kale into fine strips and place in TM bowl with tomatoes, and cook 5 min,100/speed1.



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Tips/Hints:
If the sausage has a casing, remove it before adding it to the soup.

[fundj&e]

i love chorizo  i have never tried or seen linguica sausage, does it taste like a chorizo?

[judydawn]

Congratulations mairim on your first recipe conversion.  The first is probably the hardest but then you find you cannot stop yourself converting other recipes. Great job.

[mairim]

I haven't had linquica for a long time.  I used to eat it many years ago in Provincetown, Mass. where there are a lot of Portuguese fisherman.  That's when I first had the soup and fell in love with it.  Linguica is a Portuguese sausage, just as chorizo is Spanish. If you have an area where Portuguese people live, you might find it there.   I suspect that Portuguese bread (I've seen recipe for it on the Forum) might go well with the soup.

[judydawn]

Isi's Portuguese bread goes well with any soup mairim - she is a wonderful bread maker. 

[JuliaBalbilla]

Mairim, this looks very good indeed.  I shall give this a go as I have some kale that should be eaten tomorrow (there are only so many green smoothies I can drink in a day ), but I will adapt it slightly as I am a vegetarian.  So, veggie sausages instead of chorizo, but with some smoked paprika to simulate the smokiness of chorizo.  BTW, did you use spicy chorizo or ordinary?

JB

[mairim]

Sorry it took me so long to reply. I've used spicy and regular chorizo on occasion. Whichever you like best.

[JuliaBalbilla]

Thanks Mairim.  I am sure DH would prefer the spicy version