Russian

Solyanka (Mixed Meat and Pickle Soup)

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Solyanka (Mixed Meat and Pickle Soup) is Russian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the soup. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

65 min Involved

Ingredients

Serves
3

The quantities follow this count.

How to cook it

  1. Dice the smoked ham, kielbasa, and ham into bite-size pieces.

  2. Heat the oil in a pot and saute the diced onion 4 minutes until soft.

  3. Stir in the tomato paste and diced pickles and cook 3 minutes.

  4. Add 7 cups of water, the bay leaf, and the mixed meats and simmer 25 minutes.

  5. Stir in the olives, minced garlic, and a squeeze of lemon, and season with salt and pepper.

  6. Discard the bay leaf and serve hot topped with sour cream and a lemon slice, a special weekend soup.

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Serve it with

A Russian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Solyanka (Mixed Meat and Pickle Soup), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Solyanka (Mixed Meat and Pickle Soup) carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Solyanka (Mixed Meat and Pickle Soup)
Allergen In this dish Cook this instead
Peanuts No
Tree nuts No
Dairy Yes Gorohovyi Sup (Split Pea Soup with Smoked Sausage)
Gluten No
Shellfish No
Eggs No
Soy No
Fish No
Sesame No
Coconut No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories
610 kcal
Protein
41 g
Carbs
9 g
Fat
46 g
Fiber
2 g
Sugar
3 g
Sodium
3680 mg
Saturated fat
15 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Solyanka (Mixed Meat and Pickle Soup) takes about 65 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a proper project. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.

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