Spring Beet soup (Polish Botwina)
- 1 each duck wing
- 2 each chicken wings
- 50 grams leeks green part or coarsely chopped green leaves
- 1 each parsnips peeled
- 5 each juniper berries crushed
- 2 each allspice berries
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 800 millilitres water
- 250 grams beets spring beet inc. stems, leaves and very small roots
- 1 each potatoes ca. 100 g, peeled, diced
- 1 each baby carrots ca. 50 g, sliced
- 1 each scallions, spring or green onions finely chopped inc. chives
- 1/2 cup dill weed fresh, finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon lovage dried, or 1 fresh sprig
- 1 teaspoon marjoram dried, or 1 fresh sprig
- 1 each bay leaves medium
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons brown sugar
- 6 teaspoons cream 16% or 18%
- 1 x salt
- 1 x black pepper ground
- 1 each eggs hard boiled, optionally
- 1 - Cook the stock in a pressure cooker for 20 minutes.
- 2 - Remove items, and skim fat.
- It is a good idea to prepare the stock a day before, then cool it, place it in the fridge, and remove fat from the surface next morning.
- 3 - Rinse spring beets, remove bad looking stems, cut off the oldest and yellowish leaves, gently scrape the beet roots.
- Chop the beet stems into 1 cm (half an inch) parts, chop the leaves, and slice the small roots finely.
- Prepare the rest of ingredients.
- 4 - Heat up the stock, add salt if needed, add potatoes, carrot, lovage, spring onion, bay leaf, and bring the stock to boil, then simmer for 5 minutes.
- 5 - Add roots, stems and leaves of beets, add dill, marjoram, sugar, and cook for the next 5 minutes.
- 6 - Stir in lemon juice, add salt and pepper to reach the optimal flavor.
- Have in mind the fact that the cream will soften the flavor of the soup.
- 7 - Add 2 teaspoon of cream to your bowl.
- Another option: you may stir in all the cream when soup is in the pot.
- When consuming the soup should have a nice pink color.
duck wing, chicken, leeks, berries, salt, water, beets spring, potatoes, baby carrots, scallions, dill weed fresh, lovage dried, marjoram dried, bay leaves medium, lemon juice, brown sugar, cream, salt, black pepper, eggs
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/spring-beet-soup-polish-botwina-53289 (may not work)