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Dark Beef and Vegetable Soup

5 from 9 votes
Course Dinner
Cuisine European
Servings 6 people
Calories 5 kcal

Ingredients
 

  • 1 kg Beef (breast and flat rib)
  • 4 liter Water
  • 2 tsp Salt
  • 5 Juniper berries
  • 200 g Purple carrots (e.g. for the dark soup color!)
  • 200 g Yellow carrots
  • 150 g Red carrots
  • 150 g Parsley roots
  • 150 g Parsnips
  • 500 g Brussels sprouts (peeled / cleaned 400 g)
  • 200 g Leek
  • 100 g Celery
  • 2 Garlic cloves
  • 0,5 Red chilli pepper
  • 2 tbsp Clear broth (instant)
  • 1 tbsp Maggi
  • 1 tbsp Sweet soy sauce
  • 1 tsp Sambal oelek
  • 1 tsp Chili powder
  • 3 big pinches of coarse sea salt from the mill
  • 3 big pinches of colored pepper from the mill
  • 0,5 bunch Parsley

Instructions
 

  • Wash the meat, pat dry with kitchen paper and cook in salted water (2 teaspoons) with juniper berries (5 pieces) for about 2 hours. In the meantime, clean / prepare the vegetables: Peel the carrots, parsley roots and parsnips with the peeler, scrape 2 in 1 decorating blade with the vegetable blossom scraper / peeler and cut into decorative flower slices (approx. 4 - 5 mm thick) with the knife. Clean the Brussels sprouts and cut the stalk in a cross shape. Clean the leek, wash it thoroughly and cut into rings. Clean the celery and cut into small diamonds. Peel and finely dice the garlic cloves. Clean, wash, quarter and cut the chilli pepper into thin rings / pieces. Wash the parsley, shake dry and pluck. Remove the meat and juniper berries. Separate the meat from the bones and fat and dice. Add the vegetables (purple, yellow and red carrot blossoms, parsley root blossoms, parsnip blossoms, Brussels sprouts, leek rings, celery lozenges, diced garlic cloves and chilli pepper rings) and the diced meat to the broth and sprinkle with clear broth (2 tbsp), Maggi (1 tbsp), sweet soy sauce ( 1 tbsp), sambal oelek (1 teaspoon) and chilli powder (1 teaspoon) and simmer all of them for about 25 minutes. Season with coarse sea salt from the mill (3 big pinches) and colored pepper from the mill (3 big pinches) and fold in the parsley. Serve the soup hot.

Nutrition

Serving: 100gCalories: 5kcalCarbohydrates: 0.4gProtein: 0.2gFat: 0.3g
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Written by John Myers

Professional Chef with 25 years of industry experience at the highest levels. Restaurant owner. Beverage Director with experience creating world-class nationally recognized cocktail programs. Food writer with a distinctive Chef-driven voice and point of view.

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