PORTUGESE FLAVA!!!!

My good friend Pierre made this for me...... the entire recipe cost about 10 dollars to make but,it made alot of soup .He froze half of it and served the rest with the bread and some Brazilian beer (SOL) YUMMY !!! this was a great dinner in..

Caldo Verde - Portugese Kale and Sausage
Soup

8 oz chorizo/chourico or linguica, diced
1 large onion,diced
3 garlic cloves, minced
8 cups chicken stock
1 pound Yukon gold potatoes, diced
1 pound kale (or collard greens) cut into a very fine julienne ( we used collard greens)
Salt and pepper
Olive oil

Heat 1 tablespoons of olive oil in a large saucepan or Dutch oven,over medium heat. Add the cubes of chorizo and cook until they are lightly browned. Remove the sausage and set aside. Add the diced onion to the rendered fat in the pan with a little salt and cook until they are translucent. Add the garlic and cook until it is fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add the stock and potatoes, and season with salt and pepper. Bring to a boil, then lower heat to a simmer. Simmer until the poatoes are
tender.

Mash half of the potato in a blender, immersion blender, or potato masher. Add half of the chourico and the julienned greens and simmer for 2 minutes, or until the greens are tender. Top the soup with the remaining cubes of chorizo and serve with bread. ( we stuck the FRENCH BREAD into the oven to get crispy) .