1 medium/large onion
3-4 medium sized potatoes
~50g bacon
Pork lard or vegetable oil
1 tbs paprika powder
0.5 tbs ground cumin
1.5L water
100ml cream – I used a low fat one, but any will work
200g Bryndza cheese – a type of Slovak (and Polish I think) soft sheep cheese. Probably gonna be close to impossible to get anywhere not in this general part of the world. Greek Feta is somewhat close I guess? But not quite it.
Salt, ground black pepper
Cut the onion and bacon into small pieces and fry in the oil for ~2 minutes. Add the potatoes cut into small cubes, paprika, cumin and water. Bring the water to boil and cook until the potatoes are cooked and soft – around 25 minutes of boiling. Mix the cream and the cheese and add it to the soup. Cook for a minute, then remove it from heat and blend it with an immersion blender. Add salt and black pepper as needed – Bryndza is already salty so probably not too much, just trust your tastebuds. Garnish with onion, fried bacon, croutons, chives or spring onions.
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There’s multiple variations to the recipe, for example traditionally it’s not made by blending potatoes but rather by using the water that halušky, a traditional type of Slovak potato dumpling, was cooked in. I just followed the recipe I found online and it worked well. Pretty quick to make too, basically the only part that takes any time at all is cooking the potatoes and even that isn’t too long.
Looks tasty
Cooking this right now. Couldn’t find the Bryndza cheese and someone on another sub told me to go to a hungarian shop and buy Juhtúró. I hope that is ok? 😅
And you probably meant ground caraway seeds instead of cumin?
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Recipe:
1 medium/large onion
3-4 medium sized potatoes
~50g bacon
Pork lard or vegetable oil
1 tbs paprika powder
0.5 tbs ground cumin
1.5L water
100ml cream – I used a low fat one, but any will work
200g Bryndza cheese – a type of Slovak (and Polish I think) soft sheep cheese. Probably gonna be close to impossible to get anywhere not in this general part of the world. Greek Feta is somewhat close I guess? But not quite it.
Salt, ground black pepper
Cut the onion and bacon into small pieces and fry in the oil for ~2 minutes. Add the potatoes cut into small cubes, paprika, cumin and water. Bring the water to boil and cook until the potatoes are cooked and soft – around 25 minutes of boiling. Mix the cream and the cheese and add it to the soup. Cook for a minute, then remove it from heat and blend it with an immersion blender. Add salt and black pepper as needed – Bryndza is already salty so probably not too much, just trust your tastebuds. Garnish with onion, fried bacon, croutons, chives or spring onions.
***
There’s multiple variations to the recipe, for example traditionally it’s not made by blending potatoes but rather by using the water that halušky, a traditional type of Slovak potato dumpling, was cooked in. I just followed the recipe I found online and it worked well. Pretty quick to make too, basically the only part that takes any time at all is cooking the potatoes and even that isn’t too long.
Looks tasty
Cooking this right now. Couldn’t find the Bryndza cheese and someone on another sub told me to go to a hungarian shop and buy Juhtúró. I hope that is ok? 😅
And you probably meant ground caraway seeds instead of cumin?