Polish Dill Pickle Soup Recipes

OGóRKOWA: POLISH DILL PICKLE SOUP ON VEAL

Steps:

• Peel the vegetables, chop roughly into large pieces. If your meat is in one big piece, divide it a bit as well.
• Place all the veggies and the meat in a large cooking pot (I use a 5 qt / 5 litres pot).
• Pour the water in (enough to cover all the ingredients), and bring it to boil. Reduce the heat, add the spices and cook slowly. If scum appears, get rid of it with a slotted spoon.
• Peel the pickles, grate them on a box grater (large holes). If you're using a food processor, make sure the pickles won't turn into 'mush'.
• Melt butter in a small pot, add grated pickles, cover with a lid. Braise them for 8-10 minutes or so, stirring occasionally. make sure they don't stick to the pot.
• Let's check the main pot. When the meat comes off the bone (it can take 1,5 to 2 hours), take the soup off the heat. Gently pour the stock through a sieve into another pot.
• Peel 4 medium potatoes, chop them into cubes and add to the stock. Cook for 20 minutes on medium heat, until potatoes are almost soft.
• Add grated pickles and a few tablespoons of pickle juice. Have a taste - add more juice if you feel that the soup needs it.
• Add selected meat pieces, you can also add sliced carrot and parsley we've cooked.
• Grab a small pot of sour cream, add some hot stock into it. Mix well with a fork, then add some more stock, mix again. Then add that creamy mixture into the soup.
• Add chopped dill and season with salt and pepper. Have a taste and add more seasoning if needed.

DILL PICKLE SOUP

Steps:

• In a soup pot place baby ribs and cover with water or stock
• Add leeks, parsnips cut in a half (you will want to remove them once the soup is cooked)
• Add chopped carrots, celery and potatoes
• Add parsley springs, bay leaves, allspice
• Cover and cook until meat is cooked and veggies are soft
• You can add some salt and pepper at this point but be prepared to finish seasoning once the pickles are added to the soup
• In a separate sauce pan melt the butter and add shredded pickles
• Cook for about 5 minutes
• Add as much water to only slightly cover the pickles and cook for another 15 minutes
• Once everything is cooked and soft, add pickles to the broth
• At this point you should adjust seasoning with salt, pepper and optionally with water from the cucumbers brine
• You may want to remove parsnip and leeks so they are not getting in your way
• In a cap add cream and optionally flour (I skipped flour for my version) and mix together
• Start adding a little bit of soup into this cap and mix well
• Repeat this until you almost have the whole cap of soup with cream mixture
• Then just pour it into the soup and mix well
• Add dill and serve immediately

POLISH DILL PICKLE SOUP

Steps:

• In a large saucepan or soup pot with cover, combine stock, pickles, pickle liquid & potatoes. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and cook covered, over low heat until potatoes start to get soft (about 10 minutes).
• Combine flour and milk, add to broth, bring to a boil and remove from heat.
• Combine egg and butter and stir into broth.
• Return pot to the stove and heat through without boiling. Season with salt and pepper. Garnish with sour cream and or dill.

AUTHENTIC POLISH PICKLE SOUP (ZUPA ORGORKOWA)

Steps:

• Place chicken legs in a large pot and cover with water. Add cabbage, carrots, celery, onion, bay leaves, parsley, garlic, thyme, marjoram, salt, and black pepper.
• Cover pot and bring to a simmer over medium heat. Cook for about 1 hour. Transfer 1 cup chicken and vegetable broth to a saucepan. Heat broth and pickles over medium-low for about 15 minutes. Return pickle broth to large pot.
• Mix flour and sour cream in a bowl. Stir into soup; bring to a boil until thickened, about 5 minutes. Serve immediately.

ZUPA OGóRKOWA: POLISH CREAMY DILL PICKLE SOUP

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• Melt butter in a large pot. Sauté the onion until translucent, about 3 minutes.
• Add broth, pickles, pickle juice, and potatoes. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer until potatoes are tender, about 20 minutes.
• In a small bowl, blend flour with sour cream.​
• Temper the sour cream mixture by whisking in a little hot soup, so it does not curdle.
• Pour tempered sour cream back into the hot soup, whisking constantly, until it comes to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer 3 minutes, or until slightly thickened.
• Adjust seasoning with salt and pepper, and optional sugar.
• At this point, the soup can be left chunky or puréed to the velvety consistency of vichyssoise .
• Serve in heated bowls garnished with optional chopped fresh dill and accompanied by hearty rye bread.

POLISH PICKLE SOUP

Steps:

• Melt butter in a stock pot over medium-low heat. Add potatoes and carrots. Cook until beginning to soften, stirring occasionally, about 10 minutes.
• Stir in chopped dill pickles, flour, pickle juice, garlic, Worcestershire, onion salt, sugar, dill, curry powder, and white pepper until well combined.
• Add chicken broth, warm milk, and bay leaves. Simmer until vegetables are soft and soup has cooked down, about 1 hour. Season with salt.

PICKLE SOUP (OGóRKOWA ZUPA)

Steps:

• In a large pot, combine 6 cups stock with the carrots, celery root, parsnip and potatoes. The vegetables should be covered with stock, so add more as needed. Bring to a boil over high heat. Cover and reduce the heat to medium-low. Rapidly simmer until all the vegetables are fork tender, about 10 minutes. Reduce heat to low.
• While the vegetables are cooking, coarsely grate the pickles. You should have approximately 1 cup densely packed grated pickles. Melt the butter in a small frying pan over medium heat until it starts to brown. Stir in the garlic and bay leaves and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute. Add the grated pickles and reduce the heat to medium-low. Cover and cook, stirring once, until the pickles become softer, 8 to 12 minutes.
• Add the pickle mixture to the pot with the vegetables, along with 1 cup of the pickle brine. Taste, then season with salt and pepper. The soup should already be salty from the broth, pickles and their brine, so add salt carefully. Add up to 1/2 cup more brine if you want a more sour taste. Remove and discard the bay leaves.
• If using sour cream, temper the cream so it doesn't curdle: In a cup, mix the sour cream with 1 to 2 tablespoons of cold water, stirring well after each addition, then repeat with 1 to 2 tablespoons of the soup. Add the tempered cream to the pot. Bring to a simmer and heat through, about 5 minutes. Taste and adjust seasonings.
• To serve, ladle the soup into bowls. Top with chopped dill and black pepper.

DILL PICKLE SOUP

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, heat butter over medium heat. Add onion; cook and stir until tender, 3-5 minutes. Add garlic; cook and stir 1 minute longer. Stir in flour until blended; gradually whisk in broth and wine until blended. Stir pickles, sugar, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, salt, dill, curry powder, pepper and bay leaves. , Bring to a boil, stirring constantly; cook and stir 3-5 minutes or until thickened. Reduce heat; stir in milk. Remove bay leaves. If desired, stir in food coloring and serve with croutons.

CLASSIC POLISH DILL PICKLE SOUP

Steps:

• Place stock in a 5- to 6-quart soup pot.
• Add pork, reserved bones, pickles and pickle juice.
• Bring to a boil, turn the heat down to a simmer and cook for 30 minutes or until pork is barely tender when tested with a fork.
• Remove bones.
• Add potatoes and ketchup.
• Bring back to a boil, then turn the heat down to a simmer and cook an additional 20 minutes or until potatoes are tender. Adjust seasonings.
• Ladle into warm bowls and serve with rye brea if you wish.