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Ciorba de burta (Romanian tripe soup)

A friend of mine has been going to Romania on holiday for a couple of years. He has taken a liking to the local tripe soup, which is very popular throughout Romania. However, as it happens, it is cooked a little differently everywhere, here a tried and tested version according to my friend who got the recipe from his Romanian friends.

Ingredients:

750 g beef tripe 300 g 250 g of sour cream 100 g sterilised red peppers 100 g sterilised yellow peppers 2 l water 4 pcs yolks 4 pcs carrots 2-3 pcs garlic cloves 2 pcs garlic cloves 2 pcs carrots onions 1 pc piece of celery butter pepper vinegar oil salt

Procedure:

  • Cook beef tripe in salted water for 1 hour, rinse, place in a pot, cover with clean water, add pre-cooked tripe, beef front, 2 whole onions, 2 carrots, a piece of celery, season with salt, cook over low heat until tender, about 2 hours.
  • When tripe is soft, skim off broth, set meat and tripe aside, discard Vegetable Recipes.
  • Stir sour cream with egg yolks and slowly, in ladlefuls, stir into clear, warm broth.
  • Slice the juices into strips, dice the beef, put in the broth.
  • In a pan in oil and butter (1:1), fry the grated carrots, roast 3-4 minutes until caramelized and add to the soup (carrots give the soup a nice color).
  • Slice the sterilised peppers into strips, put them into the soup.
  • Season the soup to taste with grated garlic, vinegar, (you can also add a little paprika liquor), pepper and salt, let it warm up briefly and serve.
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    Text and photo by D. Marounek