Caldo Verde
Submitted by David Weaver on Tue, 02/16/2010 - 9:01am
Ingredients:Olive Oil
8 oz Turkey Sausage (Italian)
1 Medium Onion, diced
2 Garlic Cloves, Minced
4 C Chicken Broth
1 Medium Baking Potato, peeled*
4 C stemmed and shredded kale
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
3 dashes hot pepper sauce
Add small amount of olive oil to pan and brown the sausage. Remove sausage from pan and add onion. Cook until softened and then add garlic. Slice up the sausage and return to pan. Add broth and bring to a simmer. Using small holes of a box grater, grate the potato into the soup. Stir well while returning to a simmer. Cover and reduce heat to low and simmer for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Stir in kale. Cover and continue cooking, stirring occasionally until the kale is tender (10-12 min). Stir in salt, pepper and hot sauce before serving.
* - To make this strictly Paleo I didn't use the potato. Instead, I cooked cauliflower in some of the broth and then pureed it in my food processor and added the puree back to the soup. I also added some pieces of cauliflower to the soup.
I had the thought that you could replace the sausage with some of Julie's meatballs -- yummy!
(This recipe was so tasty, we didn't even get a good picture of it before it was almost gone!)
Recipes
Baked Stuffed Tomatoes
1 can tuna (or fresh crab or shredded chicken, etc...)
2-3 TBS olive oil
1/4 cup almonds
1/4 cup walnuts
dashes of cayenne pepper
squeezes of lemon
bunch of basil
fresh ground black pepper
half of avocado
stalk of celery
Combine in food processor! Stuff hollowed out tomato. Bake at 350 for 20 minutes.
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