Fresh Cabbage Soup

Name: Fresh Cabbage Soup (Svegii Stji)
Cuisine: Russian
Ingredients: 40 g/1½ oz/3 tbsp butter; 1 onion, sliced; 1 head white cabbage, total weight 750 g/1 lb 10 oz, shredded; 1 carrot, shredded or grated; 1 piece celeriac, total weight 50 g/2 oz, shredded and grated; 2 bay leaves; 5 black peppercorns; 1.5 litres/2½ pints/6¼ cups vegetable stock; 5 new potatoes, diced; 15 ml/1 tbsp sunflower oil; 1 (bell) pepper, cored and sliced; 2 tomatoes, chopped; salt and ground black pepper; salt and ground black pepper; 45 ml/3 tbsp chopped fresh dill, to garnish; smetana or crème fraîche and rye bread, to serve; smetana or crème fraîche and rye bread, to serve; smetana or crème fraîche and rye bread, to serve

Svegii Stji

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Recipes from My Russian Grandmother's Kitchen

By Elena Makhonko

Published 2015

About

Soups play an important part in Russian cuisine and this vegetarian soup is one of the most popular everyday soups. Every housewife has her own recipe and the variations and adaptations are endless.

Ingredients

40 g/1½ oz/3 tbsp butter
1

Europe
Russia
Soup
Vegetarian
High fibre
Very low sodium
Low sodium

Method

Melt the butter in a large pan over a medium heat. Add the onion and cook, stirring frequently, for 3 minutes, until softened but not browned. Add the cabbage, carrot and celeriac and cook for 3 minutes.
Add the bay leaves, peppercorns and 20

Energy 273kcal/1141kJ; Protein 6g; Carbohydrate 36.7g, of which sugars 17.4g; Fat 12.2g, of which saturates 5.8g; Cholesterol 21mg; Calcium 122mg; Fibre 7.2g; Sodium 106mg.