Polish-American pickle soup not as weird as it sounds!
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Date: 2023-10-06
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Box-O-Soldier
As a Pole, I found some things surprising about the recipe you used here - the pickle soup my family makes is made from chicken broth, never pork, I don't recall marjoram being added in either, but the grated pickles, carrots, the onion, the potato, bay leaves and horseradish - all are spot on!
Also most commonly the version I'm most familiar with doesn't include sour cream or flour - that way the soup is thinner and feels lighter. The dill is also a great addition - we also have a dill soup, not sure if other countries make it, but it's delicious.
Either way, glad to see you give it a shot and enjoy it as much as I do, it's in my top 3 of best soups, alongside dill soup and ol' reliable chicken broth. Greetings from Warsaw!
Also side note, hearing your reaction to Polish was hilarious, I bet we'd have a lot more funny words for you to try saying. It's almost like a tradition at this point: p
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As a Pole, I found some things surprising about the recipe you used here - the pickle soup my family makes is made from chicken broth, never pork, I don't recall marjoram being added in either, but the grated pickles, carrots, the onion, the potato, bay leaves and horseradish - all are spot on!
Also most commonly the version I'm most familiar with doesn't include sour cream or flour - that way the soup is thinner and feels lighter. The dill is also a great addition - we also have a dill soup, not sure if other countries make it, but it's delicious.
Either way, glad to see you give it a shot and enjoy it as much as I do, it's in my top 3 of best soups, alongside dill soup and ol' reliable chicken broth. Greetings from Warsaw!
Also side note, hearing your reaction to Polish was hilarious, I bet we'd have a lot more funny words for you to try saying. It's almost like a tradition at this point: p
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mossy
I got the chills when you said you won't strain the soup after showing the bone breaking. when I was little, and lived in Poland with my grandma, she used to make pickle soup out of leftover chicken broth. one time, a bone got through, and I bit right into it. I was very easily disturbed by weird textures in food as a kid, and that little bone from the pickle soup gave me an aversion to pickle soup that lasted YEARS. only a few years ago I started enjoying pickle soup again, haha
great video, never expected you to make this
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I got the chills when you said you won't strain the soup after showing the bone breaking. when I was little, and lived in Poland with my grandma, she used to make pickle soup out of leftover chicken broth. one time, a bone got through, and I bit right into it. I was very easily disturbed by weird textures in food as a kid, and that little bone from the pickle soup gave me an aversion to pickle soup that lasted YEARS. only a few years ago I started enjoying pickle soup again, haha
great video, never expected you to make this
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Wojciech
One small tip regarding sour cream and flour thickening mixture: mix a cup of water (maybe a little less than a cup, 2 tablespoons of flour and 2 tablespoons of sour cream. Mix it really well and add a bit of hot soup to fortify it, so it doesn't curdle. It's certainly lighter than using a whole package of sour cream and personally I like the lighter texture. Also great vid! I wasn't expecting to see this one particular soup here; )
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One small tip regarding sour cream and flour thickening mixture: mix a cup of water (maybe a little less than a cup, 2 tablespoons of flour and 2 tablespoons of sour cream. Mix it really well and add a bit of hot soup to fortify it, so it doesn't curdle. It's certainly lighter than using a whole package of sour cream and personally I like the lighter texture. Also great vid! I wasn't expecting to see this one particular soup here; )
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joe
Yeah the Pickled or brine and garlic pieces of anything this makes things to taste awesome. I used to take the cloves out of the jar of all is when we used to pick them iand cure Marcel. Then one day while doing it I said screw it and fill three mason jars with garlic cloves and this pic of them themselves with a half of jalapeno now I just brine the garlic myself cuz all of the good but I use those pickled cure garlic more
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Yeah the Pickled or brine and garlic pieces of anything this makes things to taste awesome. I used to take the cloves out of the jar of all is when we used to pick them iand cure Marcel. Then one day while doing it I said screw it and fill three mason jars with garlic cloves and this pic of them themselves with a half of jalapeno now I just brine the garlic myself cuz all of the good but I use those pickled cure garlic more
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radolique1
As my mome taught me: grated pickles should by butter fried. I never heard of flower or starch being added but if it work for you, why not. Vinegar pickles will not work (or rather you will make a different dish. The celery should be a root (the green part is not really used in Polish cuisine. It tastes a lot different. I would actually love to try your version. It looks very good. Smacznego i na zdrowie!
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As my mome taught me: grated pickles should by butter fried. I never heard of flower or starch being added but if it work for you, why not. Vinegar pickles will not work (or rather you will make a different dish. The celery should be a root (the green part is not really used in Polish cuisine. It tastes a lot different. I would actually love to try your version. It looks very good. Smacznego i na zdrowie!
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Snir
Greetings from Poland! This is lovely, looks delicious! I thicken mine with the starch from overcooked potatoes and of course I add sour cream too, but I've definitely heard of people adding flour like you do. I also just add water, not chicken stock, but other people do. Each recipe is indeed different, and I honestly don't ever remember eating a pickle soup that I didn't like, they were all delicious. Cheers!
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Greetings from Poland! This is lovely, looks delicious! I thicken mine with the starch from overcooked potatoes and of course I add sour cream too, but I've definitely heard of people adding flour like you do. I also just add water, not chicken stock, but other people do. Each recipe is indeed different, and I honestly don't ever remember eating a pickle soup that I didn't like, they were all delicious. Cheers!
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Mikael
Polish viewer here - my mom actually does not use sour cream + flour thickener, she just stirs in some sour cream in the end. So the resulting soup is way thinner - this is what I was always eating, I was actually surprised your soup is as thick as creamy mushroom soup you made some time ago.
I'm really pleased that you made this recipe and I'm hoping you will visit some more recipes of Polish cuisine: )
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Polish viewer here - my mom actually does not use sour cream + flour thickener, she just stirs in some sour cream in the end. So the resulting soup is way thinner - this is what I was always eating, I was actually surprised your soup is as thick as creamy mushroom soup you made some time ago.
I'm really pleased that you made this recipe and I'm hoping you will visit some more recipes of Polish cuisine: )
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Erzs bet
You can use the leftover sour cream and flour thickener for other Central European classics, such as sour cherry soup. Boil fresh sour cherries with some water, sugar, cinnamon, cloves, or use sour cherry compote, make it a bit more sour with lemon juice and/or lemon slices, then thicken it with said mix. It is a classic summer soup, but it's important that the cherries should remain whole, not crushed.
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You can use the leftover sour cream and flour thickener for other Central European classics, such as sour cherry soup. Boil fresh sour cherries with some water, sugar, cinnamon, cloves, or use sour cherry compote, make it a bit more sour with lemon juice and/or lemon slices, then thicken it with said mix. It is a classic summer soup, but it's important that the cherries should remain whole, not crushed.
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Javi
Hey there Adam. I m not really much of a cook, but if you d like to make another sorta tangy and savory soup-like dish I would recommend you to search recipes for Kibbeh Labnieh. It s a Lebanese/middle eastern dish consisting of good ol Kibbeh covered in a yoghurt sauce. Im sure there are many great recipes out there, I m just recommending it because it s really darn tasty.
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Hey there Adam. I m not really much of a cook, but if you d like to make another sorta tangy and savory soup-like dish I would recommend you to search recipes for Kibbeh Labnieh. It s a Lebanese/middle eastern dish consisting of good ol Kibbeh covered in a yoghurt sauce. Im sure there are many great recipes out there, I m just recommending it because it s really darn tasty.
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mucherek
Polish and not a big fan of this soup - but no worries, it's something where my family with make sure there are no leftovers. Yeah, bones are popular for soup bases here - you can buy smoked ribs or even bones that make a great soup base. You can also buy things like turkey necks, which are very flavorful and good for stocks as well (try Polish barley soup next time)
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Polish and not a big fan of this soup - but no worries, it's something where my family with make sure there are no leftovers. Yeah, bones are popular for soup bases here - you can buy smoked ribs or even bones that make a great soup base. You can also buy things like turkey necks, which are very flavorful and good for stocks as well (try Polish barley soup next time)
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JPR
People be like 'I've never seen anyone do it like this' meaning 'I've never see my family do it like this' like how many families they personally observe doing this stuff lol. Especially now that cooking and eating traditional stuff cooked by your friends is pretty much dead among the younger generation which will should be primary demographic in this comment section.
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People be like 'I've never seen anyone do it like this' meaning 'I've never see my family do it like this' like how many families they personally observe doing this stuff lol. Especially now that cooking and eating traditional stuff cooked by your friends is pretty much dead among the younger generation which will should be primary demographic in this comment section.
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volnick1986
In Romania I had a pickle soup served the day after weddings for hangovers. It has vegetables, pickle slices, pickle brine and cooked sausage slices. Some people also make it with vegetables, cooked sausage slices and cabage brine. It s called in romanian ciorba acra or zama acra meaning the day after the wedding and heavy drinking sour soup.
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In Romania I had a pickle soup served the day after weddings for hangovers. It has vegetables, pickle slices, pickle brine and cooked sausage slices. Some people also make it with vegetables, cooked sausage slices and cabage brine. It s called in romanian ciorba acra or zama acra meaning the day after the wedding and heavy drinking sour soup.
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Konstanty
Picke soup is my favourite soup as a polish person, sourkraut soup is a close 2nd. I usually eat it pickle soup without the sour cream-flour thing as i like more watery soup textures than what youve got going on. Just maybe from time to time i add just a spoon of sourcream straight into my plate if i feel like it.
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Picke soup is my favourite soup as a polish person, sourkraut soup is a close 2nd. I usually eat it pickle soup without the sour cream-flour thing as i like more watery soup textures than what youve got going on. Just maybe from time to time i add just a spoon of sourcream straight into my plate if i feel like it.
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S.
That sour cream and flour trick is also very popular in turkey. Of course with yoghurt instead of sour cream but the same. We have a couple of soups that is basicly yoghurt mixture and meat/chicken stock. For example if you leave it at yoghurt mixture and meat/chicken stock and add some dried mint you get Yayla soup.
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That sour cream and flour trick is also very popular in turkey. Of course with yoghurt instead of sour cream but the same. We have a couple of soups that is basicly yoghurt mixture and meat/chicken stock. For example if you leave it at yoghurt mixture and meat/chicken stock and add some dried mint you get Yayla soup.
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nitramreniar
This very strongly reminds me of Austrian Saure Hund (literally sour dogs, but that's just the name) which is a main- or side-dish of potatoes, onions, dill, pickles and stock thickened with a roux. I wonder if they just followed the same idea, or if one is just a locally adapted version of the other one.
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This very strongly reminds me of Austrian Saure Hund (literally sour dogs, but that's just the name) which is a main- or side-dish of potatoes, onions, dill, pickles and stock thickened with a roux. I wonder if they just followed the same idea, or if one is just a locally adapted version of the other one.
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Grace
It makes sense. If you have no fresh cucumber, use pickle.
You should make Badische Kartoffelsuppe mit Dampfnudel. The potato soup has ham inside, and the dampfnudel are a sweet main dish, like a steamed custard bun. Soup first, dampfnudel second. As it was made in the hotel near Freiburg where he worked.
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It makes sense. If you have no fresh cucumber, use pickle.
You should make Badische Kartoffelsuppe mit Dampfnudel. The potato soup has ham inside, and the dampfnudel are a sweet main dish, like a steamed custard bun. Soup first, dampfnudel second. As it was made in the hotel near Freiburg where he worked.
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Trish
I make a goulash soup that uses pickles, sauerkraut, and Polish pickled vegetables cooked in a stock made from beef, pork, and sausage. Sooo good! This is how old Europeans cook in the winter, using what they preserved from summer. I 100% agree that pickles and pickled vegetables make fantastic soup!
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I make a goulash soup that uses pickles, sauerkraut, and Polish pickled vegetables cooked in a stock made from beef, pork, and sausage. Sooo good! This is how old Europeans cook in the winter, using what they preserved from summer. I 100% agree that pickles and pickled vegetables make fantastic soup!
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alphaenemy
I've never had it like a stew like this before. My Polish grandparent's recipe used chunks and it was more of a broth over Kluski noodles. Never with chicken either
This looks great, though, and dill pickle soup is my absolute favorite soup, nothing else is even close.
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I've never had it like a stew like this before. My Polish grandparent's recipe used chunks and it was more of a broth over Kluski noodles. Never with chicken either
This looks great, though, and dill pickle soup is my absolute favorite soup, nothing else is even close.
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06hatter
Weirdly I just made a version of this yesterday that turned out fantastic. I didn't chop my pickles, just left them as rounds. I recommend garnishing this with peanuts as they go surprisingly well with the pickle flavor (also add beans)
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Weirdly I just made a version of this yesterday that turned out fantastic. I didn't chop my pickles, just left them as rounds. I recommend garnishing this with peanuts as they go surprisingly well with the pickle flavor (also add beans)
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coryman125
My mom is Polish, and she told us about how her mom would always make this for her when she was young. It's something I've been meaning to try, but finding a good recipe is always a pain. I might have to give this one a go some time!
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My mom is Polish, and she told us about how her mom would always make this for her when she was young. It's something I've been meaning to try, but finding a good recipe is always a pain. I might have to give this one a go some time!
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