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| Type | Soup |
|---|---|
| Serving temperature | Hot |
| Main ingredients | Sauerkraut/whitecabbage |
| Ingredients generally used | Stock (fish,mushroom, orpork) or fat,vegetables, |
| Other information | Shchi is generally made with cabbage.Borscht can be a cabbage soup as well. |
Cabbage soup may refer to any of the variety of soups based on variouscabbages, or onsauerkraut and known under different names in national cuisines. Often it is avegetable soup, with lentils, peas or beans in place of the meat. It may be prepared with different ingredients. Vegetarian cabbage soup may use mushroom stock. Another variety is using a fish stock. There is also a preference to cook cabbage soup using a pork stock.
Cabbage soup is popular inRussian,Polish,Slovak andUkrainian cuisine.
It is known askapuśniak orkwaśnica inPolish,kapustnica inSlovak, andкапусняк (kapusniak) inUkrainian. It would beщи (shchi) inRussian, however.
The same goes toCzech (zelňačka orzelná polévka),German (Kohlsuppe orKrautsuppe),French (soupe aux choux) cuisine,Finnish (kaalikeitto) andSwedish (kålsoppa).
Shchi (Russian:щи) is anational dish ofRussia. While commonly it is made ofcabbage, dishes of the same name may be based ondock,spinach ornettle.
The mid-19th-centuryExplanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language definesborshch as "a kind ofshchi" with beet sour added for tartness.[2]
There is a Polish cabbage soup known askapuśniak,[3] where drained and choppedsauerkraut is cooked in water with choppedpork, pieces ofkielbasa and a bit of salt until the meat is almost tender. Instead of meat, a readybroth is also used. Afterwards, diced potatoes and carrots are added and boiled until they are cooked.Tomato paste and spices may be added. In some regions the soup is served with addedflour andbutter. A leankapuśniak is cooked withroots andfungi.
Kapuśniak is served hot, in some regions with sour cream and sprinkled with chopped parsley and dill.
In most ofLatvia sauerkraut soup (Latvian:skābu kāpostu zupa) is made with sauerkraut,potatoes,carrots andgroats, but in the region ofLatgale only sauerkraut andbacon is used.[4]
Swedish cabbage soup is usually made from white cabbage, which is browned before being boiled, and seasoned with generous amounts ofallspice and sometimes served with boiledmeatballs.[5]
There are various soups made with vegetables that are the same species as cabbage, but come in different form, such ascaldo verde soup, made ofcollard.
InCharlie and the Chocolate Factory and itsmovieadaptations, the protagonist's family is so poor that one of the only foods they can afford to eat is cabbage soup.
Louis de Funès was the protagonist of the French filmLa Soupe aux choux (Cabbage Soup).
Catherine the Great, a Russiantsarina of German origin, initially notorious at the Russian court for her poor command of Russian, was quipped to be capable of making seven misspellings in the two-letter Russian wordЩи (inCyrillic spelling), which becameSchtschi in German.
