Dršťková Polévka (Dršťková polévka)
Overview
Dršťková polévka is the Czech tripe soup, a thick, rusty red soup with a strong flavour of marjoram, garlic and paprika. Beef tripe, from the first three stomachs of the cow, is cleaned and boiled for hours until tender, then cut into thin strips. Onion is fried golden in lard, flour is stirred in to make a roux, and sweet paprika is added off the heat. The tripe and its stock go in with caraway seeds and simmer until the soup is thick, and at the end it is seasoned with crushed garlic, plenty of dried marjoram, salt and pepper. It is served very hot with a slice of bread.
History
Czech Wikipedia calls it the soup of the station restaurants, because for decades it was a fixture of Czech railway station buffets and pubs, and the soup is found across the lands of the former Austria-Hungary. The same tripe is also cooked as dršťkový perkelt, a paprika dish eaten with dumplings. A meatless version, often called mock tripe soup, is made with oyster mushrooms or wood ear mushrooms cut to look like strips of tripe.
Main ingredients
Beef tripe, onion, garlic, paprika, marjoram, caraway. The soup is built on thick paprika and marjoram tripe soup and is usually served hot. Diet: contains meat; not usually gluten-free.
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Recipe
Method
- 13 h
Boil the tripe in plenty of salted water for 2 to 3 hours until tender, keeping 1.5 l of the stock.
- 2
Cut the tripe into thin strips.
- 32 min
Fry the onion in the lard until golden, stir in the flour and cook for 2 minutes, then add the paprika off the heat.
- 420 min
Whisk in the stock, add the tripe and caraway and simmer for 20 minutes until thick.
- 5
Season with the garlic, marjoram, salt and pepper and serve with bread.
- ✓
Serve. About 3h 30m from start to bowl.
In short: Dršťková Polévka is a meat soup from the Czech Republic, in Central Europe, made mainly with beef tripe, onion and garlic. It contains meat and is usually served hot.
Sources
Description, history and recipe written by SoupWiki and checked against the sources above. Calories and times are rough estimates.
