German
Soljanka (Sour Beef and Sausage Stew)
Soljanka (Sour Beef and Sausage Stew) is German home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 lb beef chuck, cut into thin strips
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 3 tbsp tomato paste
- 1 tsp sweet paprika
- 6 oz smoked ham, diced
- 6 oz smoked pork sausage, sliced
- 3 dill pickles, diced
- 1/4 cup pickle brine
- 6 cups beef broth
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 lemon, sliced
- 1/2 cup sour cream, for serving
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
How to cook it
- Heat the oil in a large pot and brown the beef strips over medium-high heat, about 5 minutes, then set them aside.
- Add the onion to the pot and cook until softened, about 5 minutes, then stir in the tomato paste and paprika and cook for 1 minute.
- Return the beef to the pot along with the ham, sausage, pickles, pickle brine, bay leaves, and beef broth, and bring to a simmer.
- Cover and simmer over low heat for 30 minutes, until the beef is tender, then season with the salt and pepper.
- Ladle the soljanka into deep bowls, top each portion with a lemon slice and a spoonful of sour cream, and serve hot.
Serve it with
A German dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Soljanka (Sour Beef and Sausage Stew), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Soljanka (Sour Beef and Sausage Stew) carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Backfisch (Pan-Fried Breaded Plaice) |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Meat or fish, Vegetables, and Dairy
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Soljanka (Sour Beef and Sausage Stew) takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on beef, ham, sausage, and pickle.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from eastern Germany.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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