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Soupe Aux Choux Garbure Recipe
This fine and uncomplicated peasant soup is a comforting dish for a cold winter day. In the Basque country, a good cabbage soup must always include a chunk of lard rance, their slightly rancid and much appreciated salt pork; otherwise, the dish is considered to lack distinction. In neighboring Béarn, confit d’oie—preserved goose—is added to the pot to warm up in the soup at the end of its cooking.
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Ingredients
- 3 quarts ½Water
- 3 cups to 4peeled quartered “boiling” potatoes
- A 1½-pound chunk of lean salt pork lean bacon, or smoked, unprocessed ham
- 2 pounds or 3 quarts of roughly sliced cabbage
- 8 pinch crushed peppercorns or a bigof ground chili peppers
- Salt as necessary added near the end
- 6 parsley sprigs tied with 1 bay leaf
- tsp ½marjoram
- tsp ½thyme
- 4 cloves mashed garlic
- 2 medium onions studded with 2 cloves
2 peeled, quartered carrots Optional additions
- 2 to 4 peeled quartered turnips
- 2 cups to 3 sliced celery stalks 1 to 2fresh white beans or half-cooked navy beans, or add canned white or red beans to soup 10 to 15 minutes before end of simmering
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2 peeled, quartered carrots Optional additions
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Instructions
- Place the water, potatoes, and meat in the kettle and bring it to the boil.
- Add the cabbage and all the other ingredients. Simmer partially covered for 1½ to 2 hours or until the meat is tender. Discard parsley bundle. Remove the meat, slice it into serving pieces, and return it to the kettle. Correct seasoning. Skim off accumulated fat. (*) If not to be served immediately, set aside uncovered. Reheat to simmer before serving.