Kalya with smoked meats
6 servings
45 minutes
Kalya is a Russian soup cooked with the addition of strong cucumber brine. Exactly the same is cooked in the cafe "Lira" in the city of Torzhok. In addition to the brine, there are cucumbers and a great variety of smoked meats. The recipe is taken from the book "Georgraffia to Taste with Nika Ganich. Gastronomic Guides.
1
Cook meat-bone broth on low heat with carrots, parsley root, and onion. Strain it. Add water to the strained broth until it reaches 5 liters.
- Beef bones: 375 g
- Parsley root: 12 g
- Onion: 200 g
- Water: 1400 ml
2
For the soup, cut all meat ingredients into strips and the potatoes into cubes. Finely chop the onion and carrot and sauté.
- Beef: 150 g
- Cooked-smoked beef: 450 g
- Carbonade (cured pork loin): 280 g
- Semi-smoked sausage: 300 g
- Potato: 450 g
- Carrot: 213 g
- Onion: 200 g
3
Add spinach to the prepared broth and boil for 10 minutes. Add potatoes and boil for another 10 minutes. Add cucumbers, sautéed onions, and carrots and boil for 5 minutes. Then add smoked meats, brine, and boil for another 10 minutes until ready.
- Spinach: 300 g
- Potato: 450 g
- Pickled cucumbers: 450 g
- Onion: 200 g
- Carrot: 213 g
- Cooked-smoked beef: 450 g
- Carbonade (cured pork loin): 280 g
- Semi-smoked sausage: 300 g
- Pickle brine: 300 ml
- Salt: 5 g
- Ground black pepper: 5 g
4
Serve with sour cream.