Best Caldo Gallego Galician White Bean Soup Portuguese Recipes

CALDO GALLEGO

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a stockpot over medium heat. Cook and stir onion in the hot oil until translucent, 5 to 10 minutes. Add garlic; cook and stir until fragrant, about 2 minutes.
• Stir chorizo and ham into onion mixture and cook until lightly browned, 3 to 4 minutes. Mix potatoes and turnips into chorizo mixture; pour in chicken stock. Bring stock to a boil, reduce heat to medium-low, cover stockpot, and simmer until potatoes and turnips are tender, about 20 minutes.
• Increase heat to medium and stir cannellini beans and turnip greens into soup; cook until greens are desired tenderness, at least 3 minutes.

CALDO GALLEGO

Steps:

• Rinse beans, cover with 6 cups of water in a large Kettle, soak overnight.
• When ready to cook , add additional 1 quart water w/ the salt pork and ham bone.
• Bring to a boil. Cover, reduce heat and simmer about 2 1/2 hours or until beans are tender.
• Add potatoes and collards or mustard greens [If using spinach add later with the chorizos]. Simmer 20 minutes.
• Cut chorizos in 1-inch pieces. Add to beans and cook 10 min longer. Taste and add salt if necessary [ I doubt it]. If too salty, add additional water.
• Remove ham bone. Cut off meat and return meat to stew. Serve in soup bowls.

GALICIAN SOUP (POTE GALLEGO)

Steps:

• Rinse beans and discard any damaged or odd looking beans. Put in large pot with 1 tablespoon of salt and cover by 4 inches. Leave to soak overnight or at least 8 hours.
• In a large, heavy-bottomed pot, add salt pork, beef shank,marrow bone, chorizo and ham hock. Cover all with cold water by three inches and bring to a boil over high heat. Skim any gray foam that comes to the surface with a spoon. Add drained and rinsed beans, onion and peppercorns, and bring back to a boil. Cover and turn heat down to low or medium/low - pot should be at a strong simmer for two hours.
• Prepare cabbage by stripping the outer, dark green leaves. Remove core of leaves, chop roughly and set aside. Quarter the light green inner cabbage and remove core. Halve each piece again and chop into chunks.
• Over the two hours, check pot every 30 minutes or so and spoon off any gray 'scum' that bubbles at the top - this is from the meat. When the broth is thickening and the beans are almost tender, add the morcilla, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, potatoes and chopped dark green outer cabbage leaves. Bring back to the boil, then cover and lower heat to a simmer again for about 20 minutes.
• Taste for salt again and add the rest of the cabbage. Cover and cook until cabbage is very tender, at least 40 minutes. Test for salt and adjust.
• To serve, remove meats and chop (except chorizo and morcilla). Remove bones and fat and put meats back into soup. Slice chorizo and morcilla and add to the bottom of each bowl before serving, Top with soup and serve.

GALICIAN SOUP ( CALDO GALLEGO )

Steps:

• Cut Veal and Ham Steaks into Chunks.
• Mince Onion and Garlic
• Peel and Cut Potatoes into Cubes.
• Skin and cut Choizo into 1/4 inch round slices.
• In a Large Soup pot
• Add the beans with their liquid.
• Then place all remaining ingredients.
• Mix well and let Cook over low flame for about 3 hours.
• Serve in Soup Bowls with Toated Italian Bread for dunking on the side.