Kale Soup with Bacon Potato

Curly Kale Soup

Ingredients:

Serve: 4

• 2 pound curly kale
• 2 cooked potato cut into small cubes
• 2 slices of bacon cut into small pieces
• 2 cups chicken stock
• 2 oz. butter
• 3 oz. bacon fat
• 2 tablespoons diced onion
• 1 tbsp. flour salt and freshly ground pepper

Method:

1 Wash curly kale, remove stems and boil in the stock until tender.

2 Blend the kale with some of the slightly cooled down stock to a puree.

3 Fry the bacon in heavy skillet and reserve 2 table spoon of the fat

4 In a saucepan make a light roux adding, the bacon fat, butter, onion and the flour

5 Add the kale and bring to the roux and boil. Season to taste and serve.