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- From: James_J_Kowalczyk@cup.portal.com
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- Subject: Re: Portuguese kale soup recipe wanted.
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- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 20:03:02 PST
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- Portuguese Green Cabbage Soup (Caldo verde)
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- Serves 6
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- 750g / 1.5 lb potatoes
- salt and pepper
- 375-500g / 12-16 oz trimmed cabbage leaves
- medium onion, chopped
- 6 generous Tablespoons / 0.5 cup olive oil
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- Peel and cook the potatoes in salted water to cover,
- then sieve, liquidise or process. Reheat with enough
- water to give a medium to thin consistency.
- Season well.
- Meanwhile, roll up the cabbage leaves and shred
- them as finely as possible with a sharp knife.
- Add the cabbage and the onion to the soup,
- 5-15 minutes before serving.
- Cook without a lid - to keep the color - until
- the cabbage is a consistency you find agreeable.
- Different kinds require different cooking times,
- but it should remain slightly crisp and look a
- little like seaweed in the white soup.
- Distribute between bowls, then put in the olive
- oil so that it is clearly visible.
- Serve with cornmeal bread.
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- In Portugal they use a deep blueish-green cabbage called
- 'couve'. "In England, we must use kale or similar dark
- cabbage, or -- as Maite Manjon suggests in _The Home
- Book of Portuguese Cookery_ -- turnip tops. You can use
- chicken stock instead of water, and add cream, or cut-up
- chorico or morcela sausage..."
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- From "Jane Grigson's Book of European Cookery",
- Ateneum, New York, 1983.
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- Enjoy,
- Jim Kowalczyk James_J_Kowalczyk@cup.portal.com
- Andover, MA
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