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Polish Sorrel Soup is one of my top 3 best soups from childhood:) Sour and sweet, made of sorrel collected last summer and preserve in the jar for the rest of the season. In Spring I make sorrel soup with fresh sorrel, fresh with no fertilizers used for growing, as I always collect wild growing sorrel.
Ingredients
- 2 liters / 8 cups chicken stock
- 6-7 potatoes
- jar of sorrel or 2 bunches of fresh sorrel
- half cup sweet cream
- salt, pepper
- tablespoon flour (optional)
- 4 boiled eggs
Collect sorrel. Tear off the stems and wash leaves thoroughly. Dice it.
Use prepared in advance chicken stock to save time: http://cookinpolish.com/chicken-stock/ . Pour chicken stock to the pot, boil.
Add potatoes cut in cubes. Once potatoes are almost cooked, add sorrel – fresh or canned – and let it boil for 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
Add sweet cream- at this point you can consider adding to a tablespoon of flour to cream, to make a soup thicker. First mix cream (or a cream and a flour mixture) with a plate of soup and then mix it with the rest of the soup. Let it boil for a second and take off the fire.
The other way of thickening the soup is to cook potatoes them separately, mash them and add for serving.
Serve Polish sorrel soup with boiled eggs cut in halves or cut in cubes.
Actually my Grandma Emilka had other way to add eggs, she would whisk eggs mixture into the boiling soup. I love it this way, even though many people would say the soup gets messy:)
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To substitute fresh sorrel how much is needed ? Thank you for sharing your recipe.
Hi Helena,
I would take a full handful of fresh sorrel, it shrinks while cooking. At the same time we need to remember not to put too much, because soup can get to sour.
Best!
Aleksandra
I guess that’s why my Babci called it sour grass soup! She always used fresh!!
That must be it <3
Sour Grass Soup is what it was called in my family also.
Where can you get sorrel
Should be available in jars in Polish stores, you can get also sorrel seeds online
Thank you for that info. I’ve never had the soup but will make it, however, I remember it growing in Poland and we use to pull some and eat it as kids.
You’re welcome:)
Bought sorrel seeds from Rare seeds, I also believe Baker seeds has them.
I buy sorrel at my farmers market.
Iv read all Comments and my way is,,,
Wild Sorrell, lightly fry, make a Rue with flour and sour cream, have a pot boiling with chicken stock, then add Sorrell then slowly add rue, add new potatoes then fresh Dill, there you have it!!!
I use sour cream instead of sweet cream. Never had it with hard boiled eggs.
Maybe you would like to check sorrel soup with hard boiled eggs, they suit here very good.
Hello,
I love this soup and have not had it for 4 years since my mom passed. My mom canned the sorrel in a jar, do i use the liquid in the jar to make this soup? the amount of stock you use is so small
So sorry to hear that!
I use concentrated stock, I add water to it. One need to use stock according to experience and stock used.
Yes, you use the liquid with sorrel, the whole jar.
My mother liked to start a stock with pork. Add the usual celery, carrots, onion. Add potatoes a d then copped sorrel. She used sour cream. Loved it with some rye bread.
Yes
I thought my mother used beef in the soup would that be correct? Trying to remember.
Anyone have a recipe for canning sorrel? And where sorrel is not available, is there a suitable substitute?
I use fresh sorrel. I first fry up some bacon, strain off some of the fat and then wilt the sorrel in the bacon pan. In the meantime, I’m boiling some soup stock, chicken or vegetable, with diced potatoes. When the sorrel is all wilted, I add it to the soup stock and continue to boil for a few minutes more. I serve it with boiled eggs and a dollop or sour cream.
That sounds delicious! Thanks for sharing your recipe!
I add the hard boiled eggs chopped a little bit of deli ham sliced and cubed also some chopped cucumber when I serve the soup. That is the way my mother in law served it. I like the soup cold and my daughter likes it warm.