Redkubbehsoup Recipes

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a skillet. Saute the onion until transparent. Add the tomato paste slowly and heat through.
• Fill a soup pot with 2 1/2 liters (10 cups) of water. Stir in the tomato and onion mixture from the skillet and vegetables.
• Bring to a boil.
• Add the spices and Kubbeh.
• Turn down the flame, and cook, partially covered, for another 20-30 minutes.

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large heavy pot over medium heat. Add the onions, celery, bell peppers, salt, cayenne, black pepper, and bay leaves. Cook, stirring often, for about 5 minutes, or until the vegetables are wilted. Add the stock and beans, stirring to mix well. Reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer, uncovered, until the mixture is smooth and creamy, 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
• Just before serving, add the sherry, green onions, parsley, and hot sauce. Remove the bay leaves.
• Serve hot in soup bowls.

Steps:

• Serve with grilled Swiss or extra-sharp white Cheddar cheese on pumpernickel or whole grain bread.;
• Heat a large Dutch oven or soup pot over medium-high heat. Add 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil, and bacon. Brown and crisp bacon and remove to a plate, draining off some fat if you have more than enough to lightly coat the bottom of the pot.
• Add the onions, carrots, caraway, and apples, and stir a few minutes. Then wilt in the cabbage and season with black pepper and some freshly grated nutmeg. Cover with the lid slightly ajar and wilt cabbage while you prepare the sachet. Fill the cheesecloth with the juniper berries, cloves, bay leaves, orange rind, and cinnamon, and use kitchen twine to tie it to the side of the pot. Drop it into the pot and stir into the cabbage. Add the vinegar, keeping your head back from the hot pot, brown sugar, stock, and water, and bring the soup to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 1 to 1 1/2 hours, until cabbage is very tender and soup has thickened. Stir the bacon bits back in, then adjust the salt to your taste.
• Cool and store for a make-ahead meal, or serve with grilled cheese sandwiches.

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a large saucepan over medium heat. Place the red bell pepper, onion and garlic in the saucepan and saute for 5 to 10 minutes, or until tender.
• Pour in the chicken broth, stirring well, reduce heat to low and simmer for 30 minutes. Transfer to a blender and puree until smooth.
• Run the soup through a strainer and return the liquid to the saucepan over medium low heat. Stir in the heavy cream and the ground black pepper and allow to heat through, about 5 to 10 minutes.

Steps:

• The amount of crust in the recipe is adequate for either the mushroom or the meat filling-- not both.
• Mushroom Filling: Saute onion in oil.
• Add the mushrooms and seasonings, cover and continue cooking until liquid evaporates.
• Cool.
• Meat Filling: Thoroughly knead the meat with water.
• Saute onion in oil, add meat and seasonings.
• Stir and separate meat, cooking uncovered over medium flame, until water evaporates.
• Cool.
• The Crust: Rinse and drain the cracked wheat.
• Place all ingredients in a large bowl, use fingers to crumble and combine together.
• Knead soft dough, slowly adding water as required, until dough is malleable.
• Wet hands in cold water, take small lump of dough in left hand.
• Using forefinger of right hand create an indentation in the lump of dough and tightening the dough round the finger with the help of left hand, create a thimble like form making certain that its outer wall remains intact.
• Into each hollow place 1 teaspoon of filling, meat or mushrooms.
• Seal by bringing the tips together with cold water.
• Roll the dough between palms to create an elongated form.
• Place on a baking sheet.
• Heat oil in a skillet and add 1 kubbeh, wait several minutes until oil begins sizzling.
• Repeat with the other kubbeh.
• No more than 4 kubbeh should be fried at a time.
• Turn kubbeh several times and continue cooking on a medium flame until outer crust is brown and crisp.
• Serve hot whith choice of salads (tehinah, tabouleh, fresh vegetable salads).

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large heavy based saucepan on a medium/low heat.
• Add onion, celery, garlic, fennel and cardamom seeds. Gently fry until tender, starting to yellow and you start to smell the fragrance of the seeds.
• Add the vegetable stock and coconut milk. Bring to the boil.
• Add potatoes and red cabbage. Mix all the ingredients together and bring back to the boil. Cover, reduce heat to low and simmer for 20 minutes, until the cabbage is tender.
• Remove from heat and allow to cool until easy to handle. In batches add to a blender and blend until smooth.
• Serve hot with crusty bread.

Steps:

• Crumble the sausage (if using) into a skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir until no longer pink. Remove from the heat and set aside.
• Fill a large pot halfway with water(about 2 quarts), and bring to a boil. Add the sausage, and cover the pot. Return to a boil. Add the beets, and cook until they have lost their color. Add the carrots and potatoes, and cook until tender, about 15 minutes. Add the cabbage, and the can of diced tomatoes.
• Heat the oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add the onion, and cook until tender. Stir in the tomato paste and water until well blended. Transfer to the pot. Add the raw garlic to the soup, cover and turn off the heat. Let stand for 5 minutes. Taste, and season with salt, pepper and sugar.
• Ladle into serving bowls, and garnish with sour cream, if desired, and fresh parsley.