Shchavel Borscht (Sorrel Soup)
This is a Russian soup and sounds wonderful, and since I have never seen sorrel here, I am going to use spinach. On my to cook list. Link to the Shortcut is listed in the Recipe Notes section.
Ingredients
- 14 cups water, see Step 1
- 500 grams pork loin chops, or chicken breasts, (1 lb)
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 4-5 medium potatoes, diced, skin on or off is fine
- 1 medium onion, finely diced
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 2 bay leaves
- 3 tablespoons fresh dill, chopped
- 4 cups fresh sorrel, or 3 cups frozen sorrel, chopped
- sour cream, or may, to serve, Shortcut
Instructions
- If using pork loin, use the 14 cups of water, if using chicken, use 8 cups of water and 6 cups of chicken broth.
- Add the water (or water and broth if using chicken) to a large pot and bring to a boil. While waiting for the water to boil, dice the pork or chicken into bite size pieces.
- Once the water is boiling, add the pork or chicken and salt, then reduce to a simmer and partially cover and cook the pork for 30 minutes, or the chicken for 10 minutes. Skim off any foam that forms at the top.
- When the meat is done cooking, add the potatoes and bay leaves and bring up to a low boil for about 15 minutes or until you can easily pierce a potato piece with a fork.
- While the potatoes are cooking, heat a non stick pan with the oil and when hot, add the onion and cook that until golden brown then add that to the soup pot.
- After adding the onion, lightly beat the eggs, and while stirring the soup pot, slowly pour in the eggs.
- When the potatoes are fork tender, add the sorrel and dill and bring the soup pot to boil and hold for 3-5 minutes to wilt the sorrel and make them good and soft.
- Ladle into bowls, top with a spoon of sour cream or mayo, enjoy.
Notes
Pork loin is about 55 Baht/500 grams, chicken breasts would be about 30 Baht/500 grams. For 8 servings this is about 22 cents per serving using pork, and about 19 cents per serving using chicken.
Shortcut: Sour Cream.
Variants: 1. Use spinach in place of sorrel. 2. To make this vegetarian, simply not use the meat and use vegetable broth in place of the chicken broth.
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