This super spicy soup is flavored with chorizo sausage and vegetables as well a generous dose of cayenne pepper.

Portuguese Bean Soup I

chorizo sausage, chopped

olive oil

carrots, chopped

onion

celery,

tomatoes, chopped

potatoes,

chicken broth

cayenne pepper

kidney beans, drained

tomato paste

salt and pepper

Place sausage in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Drain, crumble and set aside.


In a stockpot over medium-high heat, heat oil and saute  carrots, onion and celery. Add tomatoes, potatoes, kidney beans and chicken broth. Bring to a boil and stir in cayenne pepper and tomato paste. Reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes. Add sausage and season with salt and pepper to taste. Serve hot.


This soup was delicious. I used a chicken-based chorizo sausage to reduce the amount of fat.

This soup was really tasty and easy to make! I scaled the recipe to 4 servings and found that using only 1-1/2 cups of water wasn't near enough so I increased the amount of water to 3-1/2 cups and it was still a pretty thick soup. I will definitely be making this again.

I made this soup for my family as a spur of the moment change of pace and they LOVED it! We halved the cayenne pepper to make it more mild and found that this is a dish we'll be eating often in the future. Thank you Sara!

I'd really like to give this a three and a half stars; my husband really liked it I sort of liked it. It brought to mind my grandfather's habit of putting ketchup in his chicken soup. Why he would do that? I don't know. Anyway it's a change of pace soup; something different with the beans definitely spicy and easy to fix.

This is a great soup. I also added 4-5 cloves of garlic 2 large red chillis and coriander stirred in close to the end (and to garnish). Served with crusty french bread! Went down a treat with all my friends:-)

This is such a tasty soup! My kids and I absolutely loved it however I ommitted the celery but it still came out great tastes like chilli!

Delicious!! I was very pleasantly surprised- I wasn't expecting such full on flavour, at least more than just spicy, but it was very flavourful. The spice was not overpowering. I did change the recipe slightly to fit what I had on hand- I did not add celery, and the spice I used was a paprika/cayenne mix. I also added crushed chilies. I cooked the chorizo on a grill pan which added a nice 'grilled' smokey flavour. Was not an expensive meal either, and easy to make, so this will become part of my normal rotation!

I didn't put the whole cayenne pepper because we are not huge fans of very spicy food but it was a very nice meal. You really can't go wrong with the chorizo sausage:) I thought the cooking time was too short so I simmered it for half hour. I also used 5 potatoes and a whole pound of sausage and halved the cayenne.

portuguese bean soup i

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 30 minutes

Total: 45 minutes

Servings: 10

Cost: $3.11 /serving

Author : sal

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