Saltibarsciai (Lithuanian Cold Soup)

This is quite likely one of my favorite soups. If it could actually keep well, I’d totally make huge vats of it and store it so I could have it whenever, but…alas, it does not. It’s the perfect summer soup though, and it’s not even that complicated to make! :D

This was my first introduction to beets (never had em’ before) and I gotta admit, it was a good first impression. I want this soup right now. ;_;

Saltibarsciai (Lithuanian Cold Soup)

 Ingredients:

  • 13 oz. beef kielbasa, chopped
  • 3-4 potatoes, chopped
  • 3-4 carrots, chopped
  • 1-2 sprigs green onion, chopped
  • 3-4 eggs, hardboiled + chopped
  • 2 cucumbers, chopped
  • 2 tbsp scallions, chopped
  • 2 tbsp fresh cilantro or parsley, chopped
  • 2 tsp fresh dill, minced
  • 16 oz. kefir (or sour cream)
  • 24 oz. borsch (I used Gold’s)
  • 1 L seltzer water
  • sea salt, to taste
  • freshly ground pepper, to taste

Instructions:

  1. Boil the eggs, carrots and potatoes in a pot. Add the sausage into the pot. After all of these are cooked, set them aside to cool. Chop everything up.
  2. Chop up cucumbers and scallions and throw them into a pot. Add cilantro (or parsley), the chopped up sausage and potatoes.
  3. Add the kefir, borscht, and seltzer water. Stir, then add a little more kefir.
  4. Add salt and pepper to taste and serve with toast!

Here are some of the ingredients that I’d never heard of/used (mostly the latter) before making this:

 

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