SOPA DE COUVES: How to Make Portuguese Kale Soup with Linguiça & Potatoes
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
- When I married into a Portuguese family, I fell in love with Sopa de Couves. It's a simple, everyday Portuguese Kale Soup made with potatoes, linguiça and a flat-leaf kale. My mother-in-law always used to have a big pot of Couves waiting for us every time we visited. But now, she's 98-years old and doesn't cook anymore. We tried several times over the years to get her to teach me how to make Sopa de Couves because it's one of those recipes you learn from watching, as opposed to reading a recipe. The problem is, we don't live in the same state, and once when we told her we wanted to come out and videotape her while she made it, we got there only to discover it was already made! Still, it's important to me that we carry on the tradition. So, in this video, I ask my brother-in-law to teach me how he makes it. He doesn't make it quite like my mother-in-law, but I really enjoyed his version, too. Read on for Lou's recipe.
Sopa de Couves
1 large bunch flat-leaf kale or Swiss chard (cut into 1" pieces)
1 13oz. package linguiça, cut into bite-size pieces
1 1/2 lbs. pork meat, cut in large pieces
5-7 russet potatoes, peeled and cut in half or quarters
2 Tbsp. red wine vinegar
1/4 cup ketchup (or substitute half a small can tomato paste)
kosher salt to taste (approx. 1 tsp.)
1 tsp. crushed black pepper
1/2 tsp. whole black peppercorn
Fill medium size saucepan with water to halfway point and place on stove over medium high heat. Season pork meat with salt and place in saucepan to cook. Once it reaches a rolling boiling, lower heat and let simmer 20-25 minutes.
When that time is almost up, fill a separate, larger saucepan with water to about the halfway point. Add chopped kale and linguiça to it. Carefully transfer the cooked pork meat from other pot into the larger pot with the kale. Add potatoes. Season with salt, crushed pepper, and whole peppercorn. Stir and let cook with lid on 45 minutes. When almost done cooking, add red wine vinegar and ketchup. Stir and taste broth for salt and adjust if necessary. At end of 45 minutes, turn off heat and let soup sit at least 15 minutes before serving.
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My frist time watching you and I just the your recipes will absolutely try these recipes looks delicious! Thank you from California 🙏🏻😇
Hello to you in California. I'm happy you found my channel. Thanks for watching.
Grew up eating this soup... my dad is from São Miguel. And this is the version I grew up with... we add some white kidney beans, but no Ketchup... lol
Curly kale is just fine to use as well its a softer texture but taste about the same. i use with curly kale or collards which are couves. I use beef soup bone and chourico which is also a Portuguese sausage. delicious! Your missing the beans 🙂
My husband says you're absolutely right about the beans. Thanks for the comment.
Made me think of my mom.
love the channel Marcy! 1😊
Thanks so much! I appreciate the encouragement. ☺️
Olá! Very good job. I enjoy watching the video.
👋🏼 Muito obrigada! I appreciate your comment. 🤗
I will definitely put this on my to do list when the Lacinato kale is ready in my fall garden! Thank you Marcy for sharing.
How wonderful that you have Lacinato kale growing in your garden! 👩🏻🌾 It’s really difficult to find where I live. Thanks for the comment.
Miss my grandmother's my mothers & my great-grandmother's Portuguese Kale soup thanks for the recipe
Awe. I know what you mean. I miss when my mother-in-law would still cook this for us. But, we've gotta carry on the torch.
That’s amazing to know a different style everyone does it differently I’m from ilha de São Miguel my grandmother and mother makes it just like that but they add in sweet potatoes and onions and Knorr for the taste that’s amazing 🇵🇹
I'm imagining it with sweet potatoes and I bet it's fantastic! I've only seen São Miguel in pictures, and it's beautiful. Someday, I hope to go see it in person. Thanks for watching!
Traditions are precious ❤️ why did I get so crybaby ❤
My mother-in-law just passed away a week ago today. It's going to be a while before I can even attempt making this soup. This and rice pudding were her signature dishes.
This is amazing how I came across your video, I’m Portuguese from the island of Terceira !!. Great recipe thank you for sharing
That's awesome. We don't meet many people who even know where that is. It is a beautiful island. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.
The best soup! My grandmother made it all the time. Now my mom does. I love it so much!
I love this soup, too! That's awesome that the recipe is being passed on from generation to generation in your family.
Love this. I'm Portuguese my Grandparents were also from the Azores the island of Sao Jorge. They migrated to Hughson California and Monterey CA many years ago . My mother made Kale soup and I make it as well. I make it and I also use Linguica no ketchup lol but I add a can of bean and bacon soup it's amazing. My Soapa is pretty amazing to. Thanks for sharing your recipe. I'll have to try it sometime. Love Portuguese food. ❤️
My mother-in-law used to add beans to her kale soup, although not all the time. I loved it and definitely miss her cooking...especially her rice pudding. She migrated from Terceira to Sao Salito, but eventually wound up in Galt, CA where she lived most of her life. Thanks for watching and leaving a nice comment.
I use whatever kale I have, including curly kale… and it’s just fine.
I don’t know why I’m crying watching this. Uggh I miss my Terceira. Grew up there and my parents and daughter are still there. This soup is amazing! And so excited to learn from someone from Terceira
Awe. It's gotta be hard not living close to your daughter and parents, so it's understandable that certain foods bring back memories and can make you homesick. You definitely grew up in a beautiful place. I've only visited Terceira a couple of times, but I fell in love with the people, the food, and all the beautiful traditions. I hope you can make it back out there soon. Thanks for the comment.
@@marcyinspired1442 thank you! I go out every year for Festas da Praia! And btw I made the soup and it was the best over ever made it!!
@@craftycanto5956 Oh, how nice! The Festas da Praia is coming up soon. Enjoy! And glad you liked the Couves.
THis is goooooood SOUUUUUPPP
I agree! Thanks so much for the comment. 🤗
I miss my Vovo ( great grandma's and my grandmothers kale soup 🇵🇹. My great gram was from Lisbon. I just made those RSV last night and it was delicious.
It's amazing how food can bring back memories like that. We just lost my mother-in-law in February and I don't think I can ever have this soup without thinking of her.
It’s literally so good!! Instead of pork I used chicken 🍗 🤌🏽
That's good to hear. Thanks for commenting!
Thank you I will try it .God Bless 🙏
I've never used meat in my kale soup but I'm definitely going to try it. 😊
If you can find linguiça, it's the best! Thanks for watching.
The ketchup and vinegar are such awesome ideas. My mom is from Ilha do Faial also in the Azores. Many times growing up in NJ we had problems finding Linguica or Chourico so she would sub ham hocks or later turkey ham when my parents' blood pressure started to elevate. This is an awesome video. Thank you for the new ideas my family is going to love my new couves.
Thanks so much for the comment. I've never been to the island of Faial, but I've seen pictures and it is SO beautiful. Also loved hearing about how your family made do with with the ingredients they could find. There's a pretty big Portuguese population in northern California, so we never had problems finding linguiça there. But now that we live in Arizona, we can only find it at certain stores, and it is expensive, so we buy it when we want to splurge.
Well there is a company located in Dartmouth, Massachusetts that ships Portuguese products nationwide. Gaspar's Sausage. Awesome Linguica, Chourico and even some fantastic sweet bread
@Edward Ratzell Sounds wonderful. I'll have to check them out. I LOVE Portuguese sweet bread. ♥️
You shouldn’t have any trouble finding Portuguese products in New Jersey!! Newark has the most shops and restaurants on ferry street with Portuguese foods
Wow I've never heard of this, Spanish food is so interesting especially from the Azores. The sausage looked great too. I might try this this winter if I can the sausage, I think I know where. Great job!
Portuguese Linguiça is really good with eggs for breakfast, too. You just slice it down the middle lengthwise & fry it. 👌🏼🍳 (I’ve never had Spanish food in the Azores. I just assumed it was all Portuguese.)
Its not Spanish food dude...its portuguese. Ive never heard of spanish kale soup and i dont anyone who has heard of it either. Acores are the island of Portugal, which is not spanish.
Spanish? Azores?
No beans?
That's collards...
Ketchup in na soup!!!poruguese soup not like that