Recipe: Solyanka

Today I was lucky enough to receive a special cookery lesson on  how to make Solyanka.
Ingredients

• Speck, bacon lardons
• a variety of cooked meats (ham, salami, sausage) cut into small pieces
• jar of pickled gerkins, cut into small pieces
• Tomato puree
• Cream 
• capers
• Stock
• lemon
• 2 onions
• bay leaf, salt and pepper for seasoning.

Method

• Dice the onions finely and fry with the speck until cooked. 
• Add the bacon lardons and fry until browned before adding a bowl of the chopped cooked meat to the stock pot.
• Add enough tomato puree to the pot so that the mixture is well covered. Now we add water to the pot - perhaps 2 or 3 ltrs depending on the amount of meat you have used. Chop up the gerkins into small pieces and add to the stock pot.
• Crumble 3 or 4 oxo cubes to the pot and stir before bringing to the boil.
• Simmer for 20 minutes and add a slice of lemon and a dollop of cream to each bowl before serving.

Wir haben die ingredients

Onions and the bacon fat frying

Ready to cook - just need to bring it to boil and simmer for 20 minutes