Best Kielbasa Soup Polish Recipes

POLISH SAUSAGE (KIELBASA) SOUP

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large skillet, add sausage, onions and celery, and cook over medium heat until sausage are lightly browned.
• Pour mixture into a soup pot and add remaining ingredients except for potatoes.
• Bring to a boil, reduce heat, cover and simmer for 1 hour.
• Add potatoes and cook until potatoes are tender.
• Season with salt and pepper and garnish with dill, if desired.

POLISH KIELBASA AND CABBAGE SOUP

Steps:

• 1. Saute kielbasa in a large soup potover medium heat for 5 minutes. Remove kielbasa and set aside. Add onion and cabbage and saute for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add garlic and saute for 2 minutes, stirring concstantly. Add vegetable stock, potatoes, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil and simmer for 20 minutes.

MY POLISH(EASTER) KIELBASA SOUP

Steps:

• Boil kielbasa link in 3 quarts of water, occasionally piercing it to release juices, for 30-45 minutes.
• While kielbasa is cooking, peel and dice potatoes and boil eggs to hard-boiled stage.
• Keep potatoes in cold water in bowl after rinsing them well.
• Cool eggs in cold water before peeling.
• Remove kielbasa from water.
• Drain and add cut up potatoes to the water in which you cooked the kielbasa.
• Add salt and cook.
• When potatoes are done, add pepper and vinegar to taste.
• *Don't use balsamic vinegar.
• To thicken soup, add flour to cold water in a jar with lid or shaker.
• Shake vigorously to combine.
• Add to simmering soup through a fine strainer to remove any lumps.
• Stir to incorporate.
• Simmer a few minutes to slightly thicken soup.
• Adjust seasonings at this point. More vinegar? More thickening?.
• When ready to serve, slice kielbasa, approx 1/4-inch slices.
• Add some to each soup bowl with one chopped egg.
• Ladle in broth with potatoes.
• Serve with a good thick-crusted bread like Polish sisel bread.
• At Easter when there is baked ham we add pieces of chopped ham, and, of course, a dollop of horseradish(white)!

POLISH KIELBASA SAUERKRAUT SOUP

Steps:

• 1. Sautee onions in pan with the butter until onions are tender (don't completely brown / carmelize them).
• 2. At the same time, in a pot, add potatoes and enough water to cover them about an inch over the tops of the potatoes.
• 3. Add onions to potatoes. Cover and let cook for 5 minutes. In the meantime, rinse and drain your sauerkraut.
• 4. Add the rest of the ingredients to the pot except for the optional ones and the salt-to-taste.
• 5. Add more water to just cover all the ingredients. Cover and let cook until potatoes are tender (about 20-25 minutes).
• 6. After potatoes are tender, turn off heat. Stir in salt-to-taste. Add extra pepper if you'd like.
• 7. When serving, garnish top with dollop of sour cream, freshly chopped dill and/or chives, and/or parsley. Eat this soup with some good buttered polish rye bread on the side!

POLISH POTATO, KIELBASA, AND CABBAGE SOUP (KAPUSNIAK) RECIPE

Steps:

• 1. Heat oil in a large soup pot or Dutch oven over medium heat until shimmering. Add bacon and kielbasa and cook, stirring, until fat is rendering and bacon and sausage are browning in spots, about 5 minutes. Add onion and carrot and cook, stirring, until softened but not browned, about 4 minutes. Add cabbage and cook, stirring, until lightly wilted, about 3 minutes. Add sauerkraut with its juice, chicken stock, bay leaves, dill stems, and potato. Season to taste with salt.
• Increase heat to high and bring soup to a boil. Reduce to a bare simmer and cook until potato is tender, about 10 minutes. Stir together cornstarch, paprika, and 1/2 teaspoon white pepper in a small bowl. Add 1 tablespoon (15ml) cold water and stir to form a slurry. Pour slurry into the soup and stir until evenly distributed. Return to a boil (soup should thicken very slightly). Season to taste with more salt and white pepper as desired. Stir in chopped dill and serve with bread.

LENTIL SOUP WITH POLISH KIELBASA

Steps:

• Sort and rinse lentils.
• In a saucepan, heat oil.
• Stir in sausage, onion and celery until tender.
• Then add garlic.
• Add lentils and remaining ingredients.
• Bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat, cover and simmer until lentils are tender and soup gets thick.
• Serves 4.

KIELBASA SOUP (POLISH)

Steps:

• In a large soup pot, melt the butter.
• Add the onion and celery and cook until tender.
• Add the water, beef stock or broth, cabbage, carrots, bay leaf, thyme, vinegar, maple syrup and Kielbasa.
• Bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer.
• Cover and simmer for 1 1/2 hours.
• Add the potatoes, cover and continue to simmer for 20 minutes more or until the potatoes are done.