Zupa cygańska is Gypsy soup and is so called because it contains red peppers. I think the smoky meats may also evoke the idea of camp fires.
Ingredients
- 4 large tomatoes
- 2 red or orange peppers
- 1 large onion
- 4 medium potatoes
- 100g smoked bacon – chopped into small pieces
- 200g of Polish sausage – sliced and chopped
- 2 bay leaves
- 2-3 grains of allspice
- 3-4 peppercorns
- a little sunflower oil for frying
- Chopped flat-leaved parsley to serve
Method
- Use boiling water to skin the tomatoes and leave to cool.
- Chop the tomatoes into quarters.
- De-seed the peppers.
- Chop the peppers into small pieces.
- Chop the onion into small pieces.
- Fry the onion gently for a few minutes in a large frying pan.
- Add the chopped tomatoes & peppers.
- Fry gently for a couple of minutes.
- Add the bacon & sausage and mix.
- Cover the mixture with water and cover with a lid.
- Cook gently for around 10 minutes.
- Transfer the ingredients to a large saucepan.
- Add the bay leaves, all-spice and peppercorns.
- Add around 1.5 litres of water and bring to the boil.
- Cover with a lid and simmer gently for around 30 minutes.
- Peel the potatoes and cut them into large “cubes”.
- Add the potatoes to the soup and cook gently until the potatoes are cooked.
- Serve with chopped flat-leaved parsley.
Note
Do not let the potatoes disintegrate into a pulp.
Served in Royal Stafford – Blossom Time from the 1950s.
Note
If you do not have the fresh ingredients you could use tinned tomatoes and bottled peppers.
Really like the china (as well as the soup of course!).
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Thank you.
I bought 5 dinner plates & 5 soup plates in this design from a charity shop just a few weeks ago.
I have in the past few months bought several other designs. So now I have a variety for my photographs – as well as my own & my mother’s original plates.
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This sounds and looks divine! I love the idea of the allspice.
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Strangely enough allspice is a very popular spice in Poland.
Its Polish name ziele angielskie means English Herb which is odd as it is neither a herb nor from England!
I think it was because it was brought to Poland by English traders.
I remember seeing lots of recipes when I was young with allspice when it was practically unknown in England – strange how things change.
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