This is a perfect winter soup, it will warm you up on a cold winter day ;)
The recipe consist of a soup and small add on that makes it more homely.
- - Pork Shank (medium size)
- - 1 jar of gherkins (cucumbers in brine)
- - 2 medium onions
- - 4 small potatoes
- - 1 medium leek
- - 2 small parsnips
- - 2 large carrots
- - Dill (small bunch)
- - Salt and black pepper for seasoning
- - Pork stock cube
- - Double cream (to whiten the soup)
Potato Cakes
- - 8 medium potatoes
- - 1 medium onion
- - 1 large egg
- - Plain white flour
- - Olive oil
- - Salt and black pepper
Preparations:
Soup:
Place pork in a deep pan and cover with cold water. Bring to boil, then reduce heat down and cook for about 40 minutes. While you’re cooking pork notice bits gathering on the surface, collect them with a table spoon or a small sieve.
Chop parsnip, carrots and leak into small cubes, potatoes can be diced a bit larger, put them with the pork. Next grate gherkins and leave them in a small dish for later.
After about 25 minutes check if potatoes are fairly soft, if so add gherkins and a stock cube. Next, dice both onions into small cubes and brown them on a frying pan with about two table spoons of olive oil, then add them to the soup and cook for another 10-15 minutes. Now try the soup and season to your own taste.
Final touch, add chopped dill and a splash of double cream to whiten the soup.
I usually add a bit of brine form the jar after I use all the gherkins to sour the soup a bit more.
Potato Cakes:
Grate all of the potatoes into a mixing bowl, do the same with the onion. Next, season with salt and leave for about 10 minutes.
- I use quite sparse grater as I like bigger bits of potato, but it’s up to you if you want them more finely grated.
- I would recommend start doing that as you cook soup to make sure they are ready when soup is cooked.
After around 10 minutes, potatoes should release water, use a table spoon to remove all water. You do that by pressing on potatoes and water will collect in the spoon. Make sure you count how many spoons of water you drained (this is very important). Next you need to add flour, remember the number of spoons of water removed? Add the same number of spoons of flour.
Next, add the whole egg season with salt and pepper and mix it all together.
Preheat the frying pan and add about three table spoons of olive oil, then place the potato mixture, one spoon the time, making sure you flatten the cake and brown on both sides. Usually it takes around 5 minutes each side but it may vary depending on the pan temperature.
And that’s that…
Simples ;)
Hope you all enjoy…..
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