I made this last night following the directions with buying the broth, except using regular sausage instead of chourico or linguica. It was great! I'll have to make it again.

My boyfriend hails from New Bedford and we use 2 cans of beef broth and the meat from cow tails along with 1 can of kidney beans and 2 cans of lentils instead of the cannelloni beans. Ours turned out better than his mom's!! We now eat it at least once a week!!

Made a vegetarian version using chirizo powder for similar flavor. It was delightful. Great recipe!

I lived in New Bedford and really enjoyed Kale soup. Haven't had it since 1997. Can't wait to make it. Glad to find the recipe and will introduce it to Britsh Columbians

Replace the chorizo w/kielbasa and linguica and use kidney beans

Being portuguese I tried this recipe and it was great. Very near my own mother's flavor. Of course, I used Linguicia. Chorizo is mexican and changes the flavor.

Chourico is spicy PORTUGUESE sausage, not the Mexican Chorizo. It is many times pronounced, Choreese.

You are 100% correct about Chouriço being Portuguese and Chorizo being Mexican and/or Spanish. Spanish is also pork and cured hard where Mexican is fresh (uncooked) and made from beef with different seasonings. Linguica is also Portuguese and very similar to chouriço or "shareece" as it's pronounced in Massachusetts. It's likely more of an Azorean pronunciation that got a bit lazy over the decades but it's now the only correct way to say it.

I was born and raised in New Bedford and I now live in Salisbury, Md where linguica and chorico is not heard of! So I use hot italian sausages instead!! Its good but not quite as good as when my mom used to make it!

I'm originally from New Bedford and we make Kale Soup here during the winters . . . all our friends love it and we are grateful that we can buy Linguica and Chorico locally. We also use fresh locally grown Kale . . . the above recipe sounds great. I always add a can of beer to mine. And we serve it with Publix's White Mountain Bread which comes real close to Portugese Bread. And of course Lancer's wine.

King's Hawaiian is basically Portuguese sweet bread. The Portuguese introduced it to the islands in the 1800s.

Actually I must disagree. King's Hawaiian is not even remotely like Portuguese sweet bread. I am half Portuguese and grew up in Fall River so I've been eating and making Masa Savada my entire life. King's is a hamburger roll with sugar in it (blech) while sweet bread has a totally different crust structure (shiny dark top and a pillowy side where it comes in contact with the pan.) It's eggy (think brioche) but different still as it pulls apart in longer threads. A hamburger bun just separates cleanly exactly where you pull it. Even the roll-sized version of sweet bread isn't close to King's. Anyone wanting to try it is best looking for a Portuguese bakery. There are chouriço products from Fall River businesses that ship across the country and I recommend Pimenta Moida (crushed red pepper) be added to this Kale Soup recipe. NO LENTILS. It's also available. Mello's (melloschourico.com).

Great recipe. For those who are interested I have been using Mello's web site in Fall River, Mass for all my portuguese products.

I am from new bedford, and kale soup is a staple to my menu in fall/winter... This recipe varies from mine a bit. I also add a variety of meats, such as beef shank (bone-in), stewed beef and pork roast (cut into cubed pieces). I also add cabbage and kidney beans. Made this way the soup definitely eats like a meal.. Also I only use chourico (not chorizo which is not the same thing; its a spanish variation, chourico is a 100% portuguese product.) not the mild kind and not the extra hot one, I just use the regular spiced one its just hot enough and puts a wonderful flavor to the soup. Try this recipe by adding the water first and spices and add all meat except chourico. Cook until semi cooked then add chourico & cabbage cook 20 to 30 minutes then add kale and kidney beans and cook 30 more minutes and enjoy.

I added another can of beans (red kidneys) and sliced up more sausage just before serving. The sauteed sausage really broke down. Very tasty. I will make this again.

Lived outside New Bedford for years and love Portuguese food. I have to mail order or take a trip back to New Bedford to get linguica and chourico. Have always made my own Kale soup, but this recipe sounds better then the one that was given to me. Glad I found it, Thank you.

You can buy linguica in Publix in Dunnellon, FL. I am from Cape Cod, MA. My farther was from New Bedford. I learned a lot from him on cooking Portuguese meals.

From NB
Have not been there for several years.
Do miss my sea food.
Stuff clams
Fried clams
Etc. And of course some good clam chowder.

You are right. I miss all the sea food from Cape Cod shores.

Yummy!! Tasty and filling. Will definitely make again!

Delish! Grocery stores don't always carry chourizo or linguica so I used a low-fat chicken-chipotle sausage. DELISH!