Portuguese Kale Soup

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Hearty and built to provender a crowd, this crockery represents cook Ris Lacoste’s recollection of the kale crockery she ate increasing up successful New Bedford, Mass., which has a ample Portuguese community.

If you are utilizing dried beans, support an oculus connected the liquid. The crockery should person an ample magnitude of broth, truthful if the beans instrumentality longer to navigator than 20 minutes, you mightiness request to adhd much broth. If you're utilizing canned beans, travel the alternate legume directions.

Serve with crusty breadstuff and acold butter.

Fresh Portuguese sausage links (linguica) are disposable astatine European Foods successful Arlington and astatine immoderate different Latino markets; besides astatine Wegmans. Portuguese chorizo is disposable astatine immoderate Giant stores.

The crockery tin beryllium refrigerated for up to 2 days oregon frozen for up to 3 months.

From Ris Lacoste, chef-restaurateur of Ris successful the District’s West End.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 8-12 (makes 3 quarts)

1/2 cupful dried reddish kidney beans oregon navy beans (may substitute rinsed, no-salt-added canned beans, rinsed and drained)
1/2 orange
1/2 lemon
1 tablespoonful olive oil
1/2 spoon crushed reddish capsicum flakes
1/2 ample yellowish onion, chopped into tiny dice
1 tiny carrot, chopped into tiny dice
2 ribs celery, chopped into tiny dice
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 quarts no-salt-added chickenhearted broth, rootlike broth oregon water
1 bouquet garni of Italian parsley stems, caller bay leafage and respective stems of caller oregano
1 cupful diced, no-salt-added tomatoes, positive their juices
8 ounces linguica links (see headnote; whitethorn substitute Portuguese chorizo)
1/2 ample saccharine potato, peeled and chopped into 1/2-inch dice
1/2 ample russet potato, peeled and chopped into 1/2-inch dice
One 8-ounce clump curly kale, stemmed and torn into 2-inch pieces (6 packed cups)
Kosher salt
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 12, utilizing chickenhearted broth)

Calories
140
Fat
5 g
Saturated Fat
5 g
Carbohydrates
14 g
Sodium
300 mg
Cholesterol
30 mg
Protein
9 g
Fiber
3 g
Sugar
2 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Ris Lacoste, chef-restaurateur of Ris successful the District’s West End.

Tested by David Hagedorn.

Published September 27, 2015

Updated March 15, 2026