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Bean Soup Cooked with Beef
White beans and beef shoulder slow-simmered with a bouquet garni, finished in the oven with a paprika-spiced pan roux. A deeply satisfying one-pot meal.
Total time: 180 min
Servings: 6
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Soups & Stews
35 recipes in this category
Hearty soups and comforting stews inspired by traditional, time-tested recipes.
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Lamb Intestines Soup
A traditional spring offal soup — blanched lamb intestines simmered with fresh butter, green onions, garlic, and wild herbs. Clean, light, and deeply savory.
Total time: 75 min
Servings: 4
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Bulgarian Tarator (Historical Walnut Paste)
A century-old walnut-and-garlic paste, strained through a sieve into a thick, pourable sauce — the ancestor of the modern cold yogurt soup.
Total time: 25 min
Servings: 4-6
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Oxtail Soup
A slow-cooked oxtail soup with seared flour-dredged tail, root vegetables, whole spices, and aged red wine stirred in at the finish.
Total time: 280 min
Servings: 4
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Cuttlefish Risotto
A deeply savoury risotto built on slowly braised cuttlefish, tomato, and garlic, finished with butter and Parmesan. Three classic variations included.
Total time: 80 min
Servings: 4–6
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Rice Flour Potage
Beef broth thickened with a rice flour slurry, simmered until silky, and finished with a tempered egg yolk, sour cream, lemon juice, and butter.
Total time: 35 min
Servings: 4
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Tripe with Potatoes
Slow-cooked tripe cut into strips, simmered with onion and sweet paprika, finished with sour cream.
Total time: 150 min
Servings: 4
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Lentil Paprikash with Veal
Tender veal paprikash recipe: simmered with 500g slow-cooked onions, brown lentils, sweet paprika. Authentic Central European lentil paprikaš.
Total time: 100 min
Servings: 4
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Sauerkraut with Pastrma
A two-day slow-braised sauerkraut layered with pastrma, beef, and bacon — a Central European winter dish built on patience and a clay pot.
Total time: 235 min
Servings: 6