Tomato soups are quite popular in many countries, but each nation prepares it in slightly different way - it can be served cold, like gazpacho, or hot, with or without cream, with different vegetables and kinds of meat. How does Polish version look like?
I will present you my personal recipe based on polish tradition with some improvements I've figured out. I hope you will like it - my boys are three plates each today and they would eat more if they could, so I assume it tastes good 😉
Ingredients
(for 10+ portions):
🍲 1 cup of Rice
🍲 1/2 of Chicken
🍲 2 Stock cubes
🍲 2 Carrots
🍲 2 Onions
🍲 1 Leek
🍲 1 Eggplant
🍲 4 Tomatoes
🍲 500 ml of Tomato puree
🍲 125 ml of Tomato concentrate
🍲 150 ml of Cream
🍲 Presley
🍲 Salt, pepper, bay leaves
Directions:
1️⃣
Boil the water, add chicken, stock cubes, few bay leaves and pepper seeds.
If you don't have half of the chicken, you can use 1/4 of it, but then you will have to increase the number of stock cubes to four.
2️⃣
Clean all the vegetables, peel the carrots and cut it into four-five pieces each.
3️⃣
Cut the eggplant into thick slices and cut each slice into four pieces. Now, that ingredient is not present in traditional Polish tomato soup but I like to add it anyway.
100% Polish soup would include celery root instead of eggplant, but celery roots are not available in the country I live in. If you have an access to that veggie, you can add it to the soup as well.
4️⃣
Peel the onions and cut it into charters.
Remove green part from the leek.
5️⃣
Add all the vegetables to the chicken soup and boil it for at least 1 hour, preferably 2 hours. Longer your soup is boiled, more taste it will have.
In the meantime, boil the rice in a salted water. When it will be ready, remove the water and leave it for later.
6️⃣
After an hour or two add to the soup tomato puree and concentrate. I am making my own puree and concentrate (I will publish the recipes soon) but you can easily find it in the nearest supermarket.
7️⃣
Chop the tomatoes into cubes and add it to the soup
8️⃣
Put few spoons of the soup in the bowl and add the cream to it. Mix everything well and add it to the soup.
The best would be sour cream but if you don't have any access to that, you can add regular cream and squeeze the juice from half of the lemon to the soup.
9️⃣
Turn off the gas, add chopped persley, salt and pepper. I like to add also a bit of Umami, but it's not obligatory. Serve hot with the rice.
Bon appetit!
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