Portuguese Leek Soup Recipe

Portuguese Leek Soup Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 lb. stew meat
• 1 c. dry white beans
• 1 lg. bunch leeks or 2 bunches Swiss chard or Chinese cabbage
• 2 lg. yellow onions
• salt.
• pepper.
• garlic salt.
• add extra water as needed.

Method

1. Stir throughout
2. Soak beans in water overnight
3. Rinse off and cook beans in 3 to 4 quarts water on simmer about 1 to 2 hours until a bean is soft between thumb and first finger
4. Add stew meat cut in bite size cubes
5. Cook with lid on another hour or more – add onions chopped in bite size pieces
6. Continue to simmer another 1/2 hour
7. Add fresh, washed, chopped greens all at once
8. Cook another 20 minutes, 1/2 hour, until meat is very tender (now chewy)
9. Season as desired

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