{"id":4914,"date":"2025-01-22T01:08:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T00:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saltedpasta.com\/en\/?p=4914"},"modified":"2025-01-22T01:08:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T00:08:58","slug":"polish-pickle-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saltedpasta.com\/en\/polish-pickle-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish Zupa Og\u00f3rkowa (Pickled Cucumber Soup)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Pickled cucumber soup is one of my favorites and also one of the most popular soups in Poland. In my home, it has never been creamed, but if you want, you can of course add cream to it. The most inportant thing: These are polish pickles made like sauerkraut, kimchi, or sourdough starter. They are made without winegar or sugar!<\/em><\/strong> You can check out how these are made on my blog: Polish Pickled Cucumbers<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recipe modifications:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n What to add to cucumber soup to make it sour?<\/strong> What do you season cucumber soup with?<\/strong> When to add potatoes to cucumber soup?<\/strong> What meat is used to cook cucumber soup?<\/strong> What should I fry cucumbers for cucumber soup with and why?<\/strong>\n
Pickled cucumbers and the juice from pickled cucumbers add acid to cucumber soup. Never pour out the water from the cucumbers! Pour it into the pot together with the cucumbers. If your soup is still not sour, it is possible that you have added too much water to it. If you can, add more cucumbers and\/or juice. You can also add some sour cream to the soup. The cream will not only whiten but also slightly acidify the soup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To make cucumber soup, just add pepper, salt and dill. Good pickled cucumbers have so much flavour that they don’t need any additional spices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Put the potatoes in the finished broth, but before adding the cucumbers, because the acid from the cucumbers can significantly prolong or even prevent the potatoes from cooking. I recommend cooking the potatoes directly in the broth and not separately, because the starch from the potatoes will also slightly thicken the soup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can cook cucumber soup with any meat, preferably with a bone. The flavour of pickled cucumbers is so intense that it’s a shame to add more expensive meat such as duck to the broth, because the flavour of the cucumbers can overshadow its flavour anyway. Cucumber soup is most often cooked with chicken or turkey. You can also prepare cucumber soup with chicken soup from the previous day. Just fish out the vegetables from the broth and chop them up, then add the potatoes to the hot broth and continue according to the recipe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First, fry the onion and garlic in olive oil, then add the cucumbers and butter. Fry in a pan and only then add them to the soup. Fried cucumbers are more fragile and the soup with butter has more flavor. If you don’t want to fry the cucumbers, you can skip this step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n