Portuguese Chourico and Kale Soup

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My biggest modification is to decrease the amount of sausage dramatically if I put it in the soup, or compromise and fry it up separately and serve it as a side you can sprinkle on, for the sake of marital bliss. The way my husband likes it, some sort of meat on bones belongs in the soup, so the cooking time the way he'd prefer it is often measured in hours, not minutes.

My husband loves this kind of stuff, I'm not a huge fan of traditional kalt soup, as it takes hours and hours of slaving away in the kitchen, and he won't do it. I like the quicker, lighter version, although if I don't separate the sausage, it's too spicy for my lighter, Scandinavian palate, and sensitive GI tract.

If you're a fan of light, simple flavours, you might want to look at other recipes. My husband gives it 5 stars, I'm teetering between 2 and 3. So I make it for him, and cook something else for myself.

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Rating before trying...
How can there be so many reviews for this recipe and no one has asked what size can of diced tomatoes???
Makes me wonder if anyone has even made this recipe!
Perhaps the reason why so many are adding extra chicken stock is because it requires a 32 oz can rather than a 15 OZ and people are assuming she meant 15 oz?
All ready to try this recipe and went back to see if someone figured this out.

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Portuguese soup has been a staple in my home since birth. Being Portuguese, I've tasted the best. I always like to try every chef's version of this dish. This recipe is very good, though I wouldn't call it Portuguese, not if you substitute the sausage, because it changes the nuance of the entire dish. Also, every community has its own adaptation of this soup, and I haven't had one that was ever bad, but I just can't give this 5 stars... no one could who's ever tasted the real deal !
One thing, if you want an easier way to remove the casing on the chourico, before cutting it to pieces, just slice down the entire length of the link, and peel it away from top to bottom.

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I make this recipe over and over again. I substitute potatoes with red ones. I put different types of healthy sausage with red pepper instead of chorizo and sometimes put in bison meatballs. I use red onions. It becomes the tastiest and healthiest meal. Men love it.

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Turned the recipe vegan by adding one more onion, 3 cloves more garlic, half a can more of chick peas, and some ground dried porcini mushrooms for a meaty flavor... and some chili flakes to add the spice that the chorizo would have.

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Easy & excellent! Used Mexican chorizo since that is what is available in our community. Gives it a small kick.

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YUM! I was cooking up some hot Italian sausage and wanted to also cook some kale with it so I was doing an internet search and came up with this recipe. Dinner was a bit late but boy was it good! Highly recommend it!

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Very good indeed! I used Turnip bottoms and Black eye-peas instead of Potatoes and Garbanzo beans. Yum!

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Super easy to make and tasty! I ended up dumping in a lot of chicken broth--at least 1.5 quarts (or 6 cups to cover all the ingredients in the pot. I also... didn't use chourico, because I didn't know what that was. Instead, I had a pound of frozen bacon, so I cut up and fried that up in the pot before putting in the onions and potatoes (no oil was used. Still, it was delicious! Everything was super easy to prepare--just put it all in the pot and simmer til done! Made a lot, too :

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Ok, you're going to love this recipe. I discovered Kale Soup when I moved to Cape Cod after college, and THIS is the soup I remember! I have a pot on the stove right now, and, yes, it's best with warm crusty bread. Enjoy!