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Re: Soup

Postby strictlysalsaclare » Fri Jan 10, 2020 8:20 am

We've got several Polish supermarkets where we live, and they are so well stocked. We love going in there. One is very conveniently situated near our dentist.

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Re: Soup

Postby Sakkarin » Fri Jan 10, 2020 7:24 pm

I ended up going into the nearest Polski Sklep, just 10 minutes walk away, an unnerving amount of unknown products in there, and of course no english labels or prices. Fortunately I knew what I was looking for, these frozen ones were expensive at £2.30 for 300g, (Morrisons mushroom tortellini equivalent £1.50), but I guess they are authentic.

Tasty snacky lunch, but not really cooking, as I used 70g of the borscht concentrate, 150g of a Lidl sachet of beef stock, 200ml water and 100g of uszka.

I didn't think that the instruction of diluting the borscht 1 part to 5 would work, but it did, although of course with some stock not just water. I will do a test run using just water and see how it tastes.

The "pasta" on the uszka seems thinner than tortellini, and tastes more floury, however the filling was actually rather tasteless, I will check out the mushroom tortellini, they may actually be better.

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Re: Soup

Postby MariaK » Mon Jan 13, 2020 10:37 pm

Sakkarin wrote:I didn't think that the instruction of diluting the borscht 1 part to 5 would work, but it did, although of course with some stock not just water. I will do a test run using just water and see how it tastes.

The "pasta" on the uszka seems thinner than tortellini, and tastes more floury, however the filling was actually rather tasteless, I will check out the mushroom tortellini, they may actually be better.


Can be made with just water, but much better with stock.

Sorry the uszka weren't up to scratch. Because there are no egg whites the dough is much softer than Italian pasta. We use the same dough as for pierogi - though rolled a bit thinner. Work in batches and keep the rest of the dough covered so it doesn't dry out.

There's a recipe for uszka here.

Beetroot consomé thread
http://www.wildfood.info/viewtopic.php? ... me#p275248

In Poland the filling is made with just wild mushrooms - most people gather them in season and dry them - so they can be extravagant. I tend to use mostly cultivated mushrooms - portobellos are best and add a few soaked dry mushrooms
if I have some.
Haven't tried it, but some mushroom ketchup might give the filling a bit more flavour if no wild mushrooms to be had
Nowadays some people cut circles - I'm of the traditional squares persuasion. See the Uszka video below- skip the first 5 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0KmiEyFeRU

Uszka are made for Christmas Eve - rest of the year people tend to make paszteciki - a bit like sausage rolls to go with the barszcz. Usually made with a flaky yeast dough - but, being lazy I often use shop bought puff pastry. Filling can be just mushrooms or meat, sauerkraut & mushrooms ...

Hope this helps

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Re: Soup

Postby karadekoolaid » Tue Jan 14, 2020 3:20 am

Well I finally got round to making it on my penultimate day in Mexico.
Absolutely divine - thanks, Suffs,for the recipe. Definitely worthwhile.
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The spots on top are soy sauce. Just a touch to contrast the creaminess!

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Re: Soup

Postby Sakkarin » Sat Jan 18, 2020 8:32 pm

Made some Heston's pea and ham just now, a cheat version.

I made the stock a while back, but the gorgeous ham has long since gone. However using the saved stock I subbed some bacon and it is still wonderful. Whoar.

I'll insert my cheat recipe here later.

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Re: Soup

Postby oat » Sat Jan 18, 2020 8:38 pm

What beautiful coloured soup Sakkarin

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Re: Soup

Postby Sakkarin » Sat Jan 18, 2020 9:23 pm

Thank you, I think this one is probably the prettiest piccy of soup I've made, a butternut one...

www.sakkarin.co.uk/foodforumpix/butternutsoup02.jpg

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Re: Soup

Postby oat » Sat Jan 18, 2020 9:32 pm

That would make a lovely canvas on a kitchen wall Sakkerin. If it tasted as good as it looks, lucky you!

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Re: Soup

Postby Amyw » Sat Jan 18, 2020 10:22 pm

Nice looking soup photos

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Re: Soup

Postby Suffs » Sat Jan 18, 2020 11:45 pm

Glad you enjoyed it KK. It’s a real favourite here :yum

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Re: Soup

Postby MagicMarmite » Sat Jan 25, 2020 6:20 pm

I'm making a batch of veg and lentil today, I used a bag of casserole veg from Asda, lentils and ham stock I made from a smoked hough.
It doesn't contain the actual meat, as that's going to go into a beetroot soup.

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Re: Soup

Postby Sakkarin » Sat Jan 25, 2020 6:29 pm

I see today's Guardian supplement is labelled "10 perfect soups". More Felicitytation no doubt.

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Re: Soup

Postby Renee » Sun Jan 26, 2020 12:59 pm

Your butternut soup looks beautiful Sakkarin! Are those little strips of crispy bacon on top?

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Re: Soup

Postby Sakkarin » Sun Jan 26, 2020 1:19 pm

Yep!

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Re: Soup

Postby Pepper Pig » Sun Jan 26, 2020 2:38 pm

Sakkarin wrote:I see today's Guardian supplement is labelled "10 perfect soups". More Felicitytation no doubt.


No, not usually. They'll be online throughout the week and are usually by all sorts of food writers from their recipe archive.

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Re: Soup

Postby Sakkarin » Sun Jan 26, 2020 4:21 pm

They're diluting the brand in that case - if it says "perfect" it invariably means it's a Felicity project.

It also looked like it was a one-off pullout, although you may be right in that the online versions will be trickle-fed to us...

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Re: Soup

Postby Pepper Pig » Thu Feb 13, 2020 5:21 pm

Mulligatawny. Malika’s recipes are usually jolly good.

https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/fo ... 61086.html

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Re: Soup

Postby Amyw » Tue Oct 27, 2020 7:24 pm

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I made JO’s sweet potato and chorizo chowder today using Sainsburys veggie chorizo style sausages , from his new “7 ways “ cookbook . Loved it , full of veggies and went well with the cheese and chilli rolls I made . I did add chilli flakes and I think next time I’d add garlic too . The cream made it very comforting

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Re: Soup

Postby KeenCook2 » Tue Oct 27, 2020 8:56 pm

Gosh, that looks terrific, Amyw.
The new JO cookbook seems to be popular and successful! Am I going to have to break my resolution not to buy any more cookbooks .... :lol:

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Re: Soup

Postby Pepper Pig » Tue Oct 27, 2020 9:03 pm

*whispers* I’ve ordered Nigella’s which comes out this week.

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