Cabbage soup
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| Type | Soup |
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| Serving temperature | hot |
| Main ingredients | (fish, mushroom, or pork fat), vegetables (sauerkraut/white cabbage) |
| Variations | Shchi |
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Cabbage soup is a filling vegetable soup of sauerkraut and/or white cabbage(s).
There are different types of cabbage soup, prepared with different ingredients. Vegetarian cabbage soup uses mushroom stock and there is another variety using a fish stock. Traditional cabbage soup is prepared using a pork stock.
Cabbage soup is most popular in Polish, Slovak and Ukrainian cuisine. It is known as kapuśniak or kwaśnica in Polish, kapustnica in Slovak and капусняк (kapusnyak) in Ukrainian. It is also found in Czech (Czech: zelňačka or zelná polévka), German (German: Kohlsuppe or Krautsuppe), French (French: soupe aux choux) cuisine, and Swedish (Swedish: kålsoppa) cuisine.
The Swedish cabbage soup is usually made from white cabbage, which is browned before being boiled, and seasoned with generous amounts of allspice.
A variety of the soup called shchi (Russian: щи) is a national dish of Russia. It uses fresh cabbage, savoy cabbage, dock, spinach or nettle instead. The sauerkraut soup is called "sour shchi", as opposed to "fresh cabbage shchi".
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