All I know is if you aren’t including Hungary in your top soups list, you are doing something wrong. I have no affiliation with the country, but every time I’ve had soup there it’s been a great experience.
Isn’t goulash originally Hungarian? Yeah it’s more a stew than a soup, but still I’m baffled it’s not even mentioned.
Yes but that’s only the beginning of their mad soup skillz
A few years ago, my girlfriend and I went to a friend’s house for dinner and they served Hungarian mushroom soup.
It was so amazing we had to get the recipe, and now we make it several times a year, doubling or tripling the recipe because we know we’re going to want leftovers.
https://www.food.com/recipe/hungarian-mushroom-soup-from-the-moosewood-cookbook-135215
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It’s 28º C now in Spain, and we’ll hit 30º C this weekend, so these recipes will have to wait… :P
(But thanks!)
Next few days also gonna be though around portugal. We’ll suffer together brother. My weather thing is saying right now 36°C for the 2 days of the weekend where I need to be.
Too bad there was no mention of gazpacho.
More of a stew I guess, but it was a big miss to not include stoofvlees (Flemish Beef Stew). That stuff for me is the perfect fall/winter meal.
Pair that with a nice dark Belgian ale and some thick fries or small roasted potatoes… So good.
https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Stoofvlees_(Flemish_Beef_Stew)
That sounds pretty good! As a non- beer drinker, I never have beer to hand for recipes. Maybe I can bum a bottle off of a neighbor.
When we make it we usually just grab one of those tall cans (around ~500ml / 1 pint) of something like Guiness at the grocery store when we’re getting the other ingredients. Just anything decently dark works fine.
Highly recommended though. You can just brown the beef and then throw everything in a crockpot for 8 hours and it’s good to go. Such a satisfying fall meal.
Do you have a particular recipe you’d mind sharing? I’d love to try it!!
This is roughly how we cook it, but we usually use a 500ml can of Guiness instead of Hertog Jan.
https://www.keukenliefde.nl/stoofvlees-in-biersaus-uit-de-slowcooker/
It’s in Dutch so you’ll need to run it through google translate.
Amazing, thank you! Just checking Google translates work, does this look right? (specifically about ‘squeezing the baking butter’ lol) Sorry for the 20 questions:
-750 g ribs, cut into medium pieces
-3 red onions, peeled and in half rings
-1 clove garlic, squeezed
-1 bottle of Hertog Jan Bockbier
-1 tbsp dark brown caster sugar
-2 cloves
-2 dried bay leaves
-2 slices of white casino bread, crusts cut off
-2 tbsp Dijon mustard
-Liquid baking butter
Preheat the slow cooker to ‘high’ mode.
Heat the frying pan with a large squeeze of liquid baking butter and let it heat up. Divide the meat into a single layer in the frying pan – you will probably have to fry the meat several times – and sprinkle with salt and pepper from the grinder. Fry the meat briefly on both sides until it starts to color. Spoon the meat into the slow cooker. Divide the cloves and bay leaves over the meat.
If necessary, put some extra butter in the frying pan and add the onions. Bake while stirring over medium heat until soft. Add the garlic and fry briefly. Deglaze the onions with the beer and add the sugar. Bring to a boil and simmer gently for 1 minute. Pour the onions and beer over the stew.
Spread the bread with the mustard and place with the mustard side down on the meat. Put the lid on the pan and stew the meat on ‘high’ position in about 5 hours, or until the meat easily falls apart when pressed with a fork. Shorter or longer than 5 hours is also possible! We served the stew with homemade fries and of course drank a nice Bock beer with it. Enjoy!
Here’s a better translation
Preheat the slow cooker on setting "high.
Heat the skillet with a generous squeeze of liquid cooking butter and let get hot. Spread the meat in a single layer in the skillet - you will probably need to fry the meat in several batches - and sprinkle with salt and pepper from the mill. Fry the meat briefly on both sides until it begins to color. Spoon the meat into the slow-cooker. Distribute the cloves and bay leaves over the meat.
If necessary, put some extra butter in the skillet and add the onions. Fry, stirring, over medium-high heat until soft. Add the garlic and sauté briefly. Deglaze the onions with the beer and add the sugar. Bring to a boil and simmer gently for 1 minute. Pour the onions and beer over the stew.
Spread the bread with the mustard and place mustard side down on the meat. Put the lid on the pan and stew the meat on setting “high” for about 5 hours, or until the meat falls apart easily when you press on it with a fork. So shorter or longer than 5 hours is also possible!
I would just use any cheap boneless stew beef available at the store. As far as cooking butter is concerned I think they mean liquid ghee basically but you can use regular butter to brown or any old high smoke point cooking oil. I also checked with my girlfriend who is sorta the keeper of our recipe and she says she will typically put the following in:
- Cinnamon sticks
- Bay leaves
- Nutmeg
- Cloves
- Garlic
- Paprika
- Pepper
- Worcestershire sauce
- Guinness
- Onions
- Little bit of brown sugar
- Salt or a beef bouillon cube or two
If you have a way to keep the cloves in something like a tea strainer or some other way of not losing them in the mix, that’s a good way to go as you wanna remove to cloves, bay leaves, and cinnamon sticks before eating ideally.
We also don’t do that bread/mustard thing but will sometimes thicken it a bit with a cornstarch slurry if it’s not quite as thick as we’d like. And apparently we usually cook it on the crockpot’s low setting for closer to 8 hours.
It’s one of those recipes where as long as you don’t over salt it, you can get a fairly passable example of it with a decent amount of variance.
This is an awesome sounding recipe, thank you to you and your girlfriend for taking the time to provide this info. I think we’re going to try this tomorrow night; we’ve never had Dutch cuisine before (besides the occasional stroopwafel), so we’re excited to make it :) Amazing tip about the tea strainer for the cloves
I’ll certainly try it - thanks!
That looks delicious 🤤 I will definitely have to try making it this winter!
Sopa de Ajo
Ingredients:
1/4 cup of olive oil
A head of garlic
2 tablespoons of smoked paprika
2 eggs1/4 cup of white wine
4 cups of chicken or vegetable broth
Salt to taste
Dried bread or croutons
1 egg per person. You’re welcome.
Is the bread a thickener in the soup or a garnish after cooking?
According to some videos and websites talking about this recipe, the bread is a thickener. You either fry it with the garlic or you put it with the broth after frying.
Makes sense. Thank you!
Lists five soups, only includes a recipe for one.
No no no no no no no nooo don’t taunt the seasons I never got to enjoy this summer please stay
Saved. Definitely going to try the Avgolemono soup and Sopa de Ajo, they sound delicious :)
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Every country around the world has their own unique way of making us feel cozy during these chilly days, and the following list comprises some of Europe’s most delicious soups to dig into.
This is by no means an exhaustive list and if your favourite soup didn’t make the cut this time, it still might be featured in a future story… Watch this (cooking) space.
Its bright red colour is hard to miss and now consists of cabbage, beets, potatoes, carrots, onion and garlic.
The star ingredient of this soup is the avgolemono sauce, a creamy combination of hot chicken broth, eggs, and lemon juice.
And now for our top spot… Not the most complex nor the heaviest, this Spanish soup is the perfect combination of easy, filling and savoury that will have you coming back for seconds.
Pour your soup into a bowl and dunk some dried bread or croutons in to absorb all of that garlic goodness, and you are ready for a cozy night in.
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Learned something new. But I always think of something like a pumpkin & ginger soup when it’s Fall.
