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Solyanka

Name: Solyanka
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Russia
Ingredients: 200g Beef; 100g Smoked Sausage; 100g Ham; 3 Brined Pickles; 2 tbsp Tomato paste; 1 Onion; 2 tbsp Green olives; 1 Lemon (to serve); To taste Sour cream

Soup

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Several meats simmered with pickles and olives — a rich Russian soup of complex sour and salty notes.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Solyanka is one of the most complex-tasting soups in Russian cuisine, combining several meats — sausage, smoked meat, beef — and sharpened with pickle brine and tomato paste for sourness and saltiness. Served with olives and lemon slices floating on top, its deep interplay of sour, salty, and savory has also made it a favorite hangover soup.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a Moscow canteen in the harsh winter, the deep sourness and saltiness of warming solyanka bring relief at lunchtime.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Beef 200g
Smoked Sausage 100g
Ham 100g
Brined Pickles 3
Tomato paste 2 tbsp
Onion 1
Green olives 2 tbsp
Lemon (to serve) 1
Sour cream To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Parboil the beef to make broth and cut the meat into bite-sized pieces.
Sauté the onion, add the tomato paste, and keep sautéing.
Add the beef, sausage, and ham to the beef broth and simmer.
Add the chopped pickles with a little of their brine and the sautéed onion, simmer 10 minutes, and adjust the seasoning.
Serve with olives and lemon slices floating on top and sour cream alongside.

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