Shchi
Russia's everyday soup: fresh and fermented cabbage simmered with beef or mushrooms into a sour, sustaining bowl eaten year-round. Ingredients: cabbage, sauerkraut (for the sour version), beef shin or mushrooms, potatoes, carrots, onion, tomato, bay, black pepper, sour cream, dill.
What it is
Russia's everyday soup: fresh and fermented cabbage simmered with beef or mushrooms into a sour, sustaining bowl eaten year-round. Ingredients: cabbage, sauerkraut (for the sour version), beef shin or mushrooms, potatoes, carrots, onion, tomato, bay, black pepper, sour cream, dill. Recipe: 1) Make a beef broth; shred the meat. 2) Add potatoes, then cabbage. 3) Sauté carrot, onion and tomato; add with sauerkraut to taste. 4) Simmer until the sourness rounds. Serve: with a spoon of smetana, dill and black bread — 'shchi da kasha, pishcha nasha' (shchi and porridge are our food). Flavor: sour-savoury, humble, deeply warming. History: shchi has fed Russia for a thousand years, frozen in slabs for winter journeys and praised in proverbs; the Lenten mushroom version is a classic of Orthodox fasting. See also: Beef Stroganoff, Pelmeni.
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