Cabbage Soup

… is one of the most popular and most probably the tastiest soups that comes from the traditional Slovakian kitchen. It is not only delicious soup but nutritious as well. Here is a very simple recipe for how to make it in a pot of 8 Liters or 2 Gallons in volume.

What to buy

Cabbage soup cooks really well in a two or three times larger pots. For making a larger quantity just multiply each ingredient.

Ingredients in Metric measuring

• 900g of potatoes (3 large)
• 680g or more if you love it, of sauerkraut or home made fermented white cabbage
• 200g of sour cream (in Australia we use Barambah organic cream)
• 30g plain flour (optional but nice)
• 30g butter (optional but nice)
• 1 Tbsp of sweet red paprika
• 1 egg yolk (optional but nice)
• 2 or more Spanish chorizo sausages, or smoked meat, or vegetarian substitute
• handful of parsley to garnish
• sea salt to taste
• 20g dried mushrooms (shiitake, porcini, reishi or an edible mix kind)
• 4 L filtered or natural water

Ingredients in US unit measures

• 2 lb of potatoes (3 large)
• 1-1/2 lb or more if you love it, of sauerkraut or home made fermented white cabbage
• 7 oz of sour cream (in Australia we use Barambah organic cream)
• 1 oz plain flour (optional but nice)
• 1 oz butter (optional but nice)
• 1 Tbsp of sweet red paprika
• 1 egg yolk (optional but nice)
• 2 or more Spanish chorizo sausages, or smoked meat, or vegetarian substitute
• handful of parsley to garnish
• sea salt to taste
• 3/4 oz dried mushrooms (shiitake, porcini, reishi or mixed varieties)
• 1 Gal filtered or spring water

How to cook the cabbage soup

• peel and cut the potatoes, put them in the pot with water, add salt and cook the potatoes for about 15 min.
• add cabbage, chorizos (if using) and mushrooms, cook together until soft (about 40-60 min)
• once cooked, mix sour cream with egg yolk and pour into the soup, cook for a bit all together
• at the end when stove is turned off, mix in the sweet paprika and garnish with chopped parsley herb
• perfect cabbage soup for cooking in 2, 4, 6 gallons equals 8, 16, 24 liters large cooking pots