Appetizers / Soups / Salads

Caldo Verde (Brazilian style) is for Soup.

Caldo Verde (Brazilian style) takes several minutes to prepare.

Caldo Verde (Brazilian style) takes several minutes to cook.

Caldo Verde (Brazilian style) makes 6 servings.

The ingredients for Caldo Verde (Brazilian style) are:

- 500 g of potatos
- 2-3 portuguese sausages
- 3 cloves of garlic
- 5 collard green's leaves
- olive oil
- salt and pepper
- 1 1/2 liters of water (aproximately)

Here is how you make Caldo Verde (Brazilian style):

Peel the potatos and cut them into cubes. In a big pot add the sausages, the garlic cloves and the potato cubes. Add water to cover and boil in slow until potatos are soft. Remove the sausages and mash the potatos and the garlic in the water that is left, to make a potato soup. Roll the collard green's leaves all together and then slice them very thinly and add to pot. Slice the sausages and add to pot as well. Let it simmer for about 5 minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste.Serve with a drizzle of olive oil to taste (or not at all).Makes about 6 bowls of soup (6 servings)Serving numbers will depend on how thick the potato soup is.Number of Servings: 6Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user LSSCHWARTZ.

The nutritional information for Caldo Verde (Brazilian style) is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 6
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 208.2

• Total Fat: 4.7 g
• Cholesterol: 0.0 mg
• Sodium: 10.4 mg
• Total Carbs: 20.2 g
• Dietary Fiber: 2.4 g
• Protein: 2.5 g