Croatian Dill Soup Recipes

Steps:

• Sauté finely minced onion on 20 g butter until soft. Add flour and sauté it 2 minutes. Add water and make creamy liquid. Add the rest of the water making sure you don't have small flour clods.
• Mince the whole dill (including stem - but very finely) and put it into soup. Season with salt and pepper and cook it for about 30-40 minutes.
• In the meantime cut bread slices into small cubes and fry it on butter until dry and crispy. Put aside.
• When the soup is ready to serve add (in hot soup) sour cream mixed with yolk and lemon.
• If you want really full soup you can add egg-white mixing hard the moment you put it inches.
• Serve with bread cubes (put them in soup).

Steps:

• Put cold water in a pot (appropriate large pot).
• Rind carrots, onion, parsley, celery and put all other ingredients into water. Boil and after it boils reduce heat and cook for 3 to 4 hours.
• In the meantime, cook green peas until almost done and put aside.
• Take another pot and melt lard and put flour in it and fry until it become slightly brown (brownish). Add just a little soup in it and mix hard until it become creamy; than add filtered soup.
• Cut carrots into small cubes; add green peas and turkey meat (including livers, hearts, and stomach - of course cut them into small pieces).
• Cook for more 30 minutes on low fire. You can also add noodles if you like.
• Before serving add sour cream and freshly minced dill and serve.

Steps:

• If you use dried mushroom soak in water them before use about 10-15 minute.
• On a melted lard sauté onion and bacon until it is soft. Add flour and sauté until the flour is brown, add very little paprika and after 30 sec. add cold water and stir to prevent coagulation.
• Add all the mushroom you have, salt, pepper and potato sliced in small cubes. Add water (cca 1 liter) and cook 1,5 hour (if water evaporate add some more).
• At the end add sour cream and parsley. REMEMBER all mushrooms are eatable, some of them only once!

Steps:

• Melt lard in a pot and add flour. Fry until become brownish and add paprika.
• Pour cold water and make it creamy. Make soup removing eventual small flour clods.
• Cut potato into small cubes and add into soup.
• Chop mushrooms into leaves and add into soup.
• Cut dried smoked pork ribs into small pieces and add into soup. You can also use smoked bacon if you do not have pork ribs.
• Add bay leaf and season the soup.
• Cook for 1,5 to 2 hours. When potato become soft just squash it a bit to make it more creamy.
• At the end, before serving, add sour cream and dill.

Steps:

• Melt butter in pan, add dill and stir gently over low heat for a few minutes.
• Heat stock and add the dill to it.
• Mix in the lemon juice and cream.
• Season and serve.