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Shchi (Cabbage Soup)

Name: Shchi (Cabbage Soup)
Total time: 45 min
Yield: Serves 2
Cuisine: Russia
Ingredients: 1/4 head Cabbage; 150g Beef; 1 Potato; 1 Carrot; 1/2 Onion; 1 Bay leaf; To taste Sour cream; 800ml Water

Soup

⏱ 45 min

👥 Serves 2

Difficulty ⭐

Just simmer cabbage — the most humble soup, eaten in Russia for nearly a thousand years.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Alongside borscht, this is one of Russia's representative soups, distinguished by its simple flavor built around cabbage without beets. There's a saying, "Shchi and kasha are our food," reflecting how deeply this humble dish sits at the foundation of Russian food culture. A variation using sour cabbage (sauerkraut) exists too.

🌆 Where it's eaten: A modest table in the outskirts of Moscow, this soup passed down across generations — Russia's most fundamental flavor.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 2)

Cabbage 1/4 head
Beef 150g
Potato 1
Carrot 1
Onion 1/2
Bay leaf 1
Sour cream To taste
Water 800ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Combine the beef and water in a pot and simmer 30 minutes to make stock.
Roughly chop the cabbage, and cube the potato and carrot.
Add the vegetables and bay leaf to the stock.
Simmer 20 minutes until the vegetables are tender.
Season with salt.
Serve with sour cream.

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