Last modified on Thu 11 Mar 2021 10.04 EST
Every culinary culture has its comfort foods, the simple, sustaining recipes that always taste of home, and
caldo verde is one of Portugal’s, though the love of this robust soup of potatoes, greens and sausage has travelled with its people as far as Brazil. The culinary equivalent of the national flag, according to Tessa Kiros, caldo verde means so much to Michelin-starred chef José Avillez that a bowl once moved him to tears – “I got so emotional about that soup that something inside me changed” – while Nuno Mendes describes it as one of his country’s “most special, heart-warming dishes”. A bowl will warm more than just your cockles, but if you lack a Portuguese