Polish sauerkraut soup

Ingredients

• Pork loin, center rib (chops or roasts)

  Fresh, bone-in, separable lean and fat, raw

  500g

• Bacon

  Raw, cured pork

  50g

• Sauerkraut

  Canned, solids and liquids

  600g

• Potato

  Flesh and skin, raw

  600g

• Water

  Plain, clean water

  1.5kg

• Onions

  Raw

  1 medium or 110g

• Carrots

  Raw

  1 large or 72g

• Parsley

  Raw

  100g

• Celeriac

  Raw

  50g

• Parsley

  Raw

  ½ tbsp or 2g

• Salt

  Table

  1 ½ tsp or 9g

• Pepper

  Spices, black

  ⅓ tsp or 0.7g

• Bay leaf

  Spices

  3g

• Allspice

  Spices, ground

  3g

• Cumin

  Spices, cumin seed

  ¹¹⁄₁₆ tsp, ground or 2g

• Marjoram

  Spices, dried

  1 tbsp or 2g

• Sunflower oil

  Linoleic (less than 60%)

  1 tbsp or 14g

• Wheat flour

  White, all-purpose, unenriched

  1 tbsp or 8g

Directions

1. RIGGING Rinse the meat, cut into 2 or 3 parts. Put in a large pot, pour cold water, add salt and bring to a boil. Skim, reduce heat, cover and cook for about 40 minutes. Peel the carrots, parsley and celery. Do not peel the onion, wash it. Put the vegetables in the soup, add: bay leaf, allspice, cover and cook on moderate heat for about 30 minutes. Peel the potatoes and cut into cubes. Add to the soup, boil, cover and cook on low heat for about 10 minutes. Add the rinsed and chopped sauerkraut as well as cumin and marjoram, boil for about 20 minutes. Finally remove onions, celery, parsley and parsley. Add freshly ground black pepper, decoction try, if necessary, add another half teaspoon of salt. Cut bacon into slices and then into strips. Heat a small frying pan with a tablespoon of clarified butter or oil, add bacon and brown on two sides (about 10 minutes). Bacon put into a pot of soup and fry the flour on the remaining fat stirring with a wooden spoon, then pour the decoction gradually into it, stirring vigorously with a spoon. Pour everything into a pot of soup and bring to a boil. Boil for 10 minutes. Remove the carrots from the broth, after cooling, grate on a grater with large mesh and put back in the soup.