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Authentic Rădăuți Chicken Sour Soup with Sour Cream and Garlic
Velvety Bucovina sour chicken soup with tender shredded chicken breast, enriched with heavy sour cream, fresh egg yolks, vinegar, and garlic.
Prep
20 min
Cook
50 min
Total
70 min
Ingredients
servings
6
- Bone-in chicken breast800 g
- Peeled carrots2 pc
- Parsnip root1 pc
- Celery root100 g
- Whole yellow onion1 pc
- Heavy fermented sour cream (25-30%)350 g
- Fresh egg yolks4 pc
- Garlic cloves crushed into paste6 clove
- All-purpose wheat flour2 tbsp
- White wine or apple cider vinegar 6%3 tbsp
- Fresh parsley, chopped2 tbsp
- Rock salt1 ½ tsp
Preparation Steps
1
Simmer chicken breast in 3L cold salted water, skimming froth. Add whole root vegetables and onion; gently simmer 40 mins until chicken is tender.
40 min timer
2
Remove chicken and vegetables. Strain broth. Shred chicken breast into thin strips and return to gently simmering broth.
10 min timer
3
Whisk yolks with flour, sour cream, and garlic paste. Temper with 3 ladles of hot broth, stir back into the pot, stir in vinegar, adjust salt, and sprinkle parsley.
5 min timer
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Nutrition Facts
per servingCalories
360
Protein
32g
Carbohydrates
10g
Fat
21g
Allergens
EggsMilkGlutenCelery
*estimated values per serving
Provenance & Public Domain Audit
Source: Romanian Gastronomic Heritage / USDA Public Domain Collection (United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) & Romanian Gastronomic Archive)
Legal status: Public Domain (17 U.S.C. § 105) • 17 U.S.C. § 105
License: Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal
