Sausage and Cabbage Ciorba

Submitted by jo_mama

"Ciorba, Romanian "sour soup," is a delicious slightly-sour soup that often contains meat and an assortment of vegetables. The sourness can be from any number of things (lemons, borscht, vinegar, etc.) and is often mellowed by the addition of a dollop of sour cream when serving."

 

• Ready In: 30mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Serves: 8

ingredients

• 453.59 g hot Italian sausage (cut or shaped into bite-size pieces)
• 14.79 ml extra virgin olive oil
• 1419.54 ml green cabbage, shredded (approximately half a head of a medium sized cabbage)
• 1 onion, sliced
• 14.79 ml caraway seed (more or less to taste)
• 14.79 ml red pepper flakes (more or less to taste)
• 1419.54 ml chicken stock
• 118.29 ml white vinegar (more or less to taste)
• salt and pepper

directions

1. Brown the sausage in the EVOO over med-high heat.
2. Add the cabbage and onions. Continue to cook over med-high heat for approximately 10 minutes, or until vegetables are cooked through.
3. Add the caraway seeds and pepper flakes. Add the chicken stock and bring to a boil. Simmer for 10 minutes, skimming foam from top.
4. Stir in vinegar and taste.
5. Add sour cream, if desired, when served.
6. Note: you may also add a potatoes or noodles to make this a more substantial dish.

Reviews

[duonyte]

This is a very tasty soup, but I would encourage you to hold back on the spices until you taste - I made about 1/3 of it, but used only 1/2 tsp each of caraway and red pepper flakes. The caraway I would use in full measure, but the soup was quite spicy even with just half the measure of red pepper - perhaps my sausage was extra spicy, whatever, it's easy to add more spice, very hard to get rid of too much spice. The sour cream was a nice touch.