My Polish(Easter) Kielbasa Soup
- Ready In:
- 1hr 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Yields:
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1 potful
ingredients
- 1 (1 lb) kielbasa, link
- 3 1⁄2 quarts water
- 3 lbs potatoes, cubed
- good quality vinegar, to taste (I use apple cider vinegar)
- salt & pepper
- 1⁄4 cup flour
- 1⁄2 cup cold water
- hard-boiled egg (one for each bowl of soup)
directions
- Boil kielbasa link in 3 quarts of water, occasionally piercing it to release juices, for 30-45 minutes.
- While kielbasa is cooking, peel and dice potatoes and boil eggs to hard-boiled stage.
- Keep potatoes in cold water in bowl after rinsing them well.
- Cool eggs in cold water before peeling.
- Remove kielbasa from water.
- Drain and add cut up potatoes to the water in which you cooked the kielbasa.
- Add salt and cook.
- When potatoes are done, add pepper and vinegar to taste.
- *Don't use balsamic vinegar.
- To thicken soup, add flour to cold water in a jar with lid or shaker.
- Shake vigorously to combine.
- Add to simmering soup through a fine strainer to remove any lumps.
- Stir to incorporate.
- Simmer a few minutes to slightly thicken soup.
- Adjust seasonings at this point. More vinegar? More thickening?.
- When ready to serve, slice kielbasa, approx 1/4-inch slices.
- Add some to each soup bowl with one chopped egg.
- Ladle in broth with potatoes.
- Serve with a good thick-crusted bread like Polish sisel bread.
- At Easter when there is baked ham we add pieces of chopped ham, and, of course, a dollop of horseradish(white)!
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Reviews
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OK, so my family also calls this "bosch" but I suppose it is borscht. But, now I see it is actually just Easter soup according to the immigrants polish cookbook and this website!!! We cook the soup with the sausage and let sit overnight. The eggs are hardboilded and decorated. We then put the eggs in when we sit down to eat. Great traditions, keep them going.
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This is almost the same way I make it. I learned it from my ex-husband polish grandmother. The differences are:<br/>1)She slow simmers the keilbasa in water for about 1.5 hours, she then removes it, removes the skin & then slices it.<br/>2)She adds the diced potatoes to the broth & cooks until fork tender.<br/>3)She boils 12-14 eggs in a seperate pan. She removes the yolk from two of the eggs & puts the yolks in a small bowl, then she adds some of the broth to the yolks & mixes well. Then she adds it back to the broth. She slices the whites & adds them to the soup broth. She slices remaining eggs & adds that to the soup broth. Then she adds the keilbasa to the soup broth.<br/><br/>She never thickened it with flour, it does get a little texture from boiling the potatoes in the broth though. Other than that, this recipe is almost exactly the same. The amount of vinegar you add depends on how sour you like it! you can always put the vinegar on the table & let the person add more if desired...great recipe either way!
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Hey Nana, I hate to be the Polish kid who's actually geeky enough to solve this mystery - what most people refer to as borscht is beet boscht. This is bialy barszcz - white borscht, also known as zurek. It's far more delicious, is a bit less well-known - while they make beet borscht all over Eastern Europe, this is mainly a southern Polish thing. Thanks for sharing this - my family is from central Poland, but I have a cousin who moved south who made this for us. I'm looking forward to perfecting my own version and yours is a good place to start!
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