Spring Soup with Sorrel

In Lithuania, the Baltic country on the border with Belarus, people like to eat meat and hearty dishes, simple, solid and strong home-cooked. However, spring soup with sorrel is also very tasty, light and healthy…

_Info_ Lithuanian food is solid, strong and not exactly low in calories.

Cepelinai (Lithuanian for “zeppelins”) are potato dumplings stuffed with mince or curd cheese and are considered the national dish.

They are usually served with a bacon or cream sauce and are a hearty meal. Dairy products are very popular in Lithuania and of good quality: curd cheese, sour cream or crème fraiche, butter and various types of sour whipped cream. Vegetables and kitchen herbs such as cucumbers, garlic, onions, dill and chives often come from the home garden – and so does sorrel, which is grown especially for spring soup.

Grown sorrel usually has larger leaves than wild ones. When gathering it is important to take only intact and tender, because older, spotted leaves are unfit for consumption.

Also, make sure it does not come from over-fertilized meadows, as it is considered a pointer plant for soil fertilized by manure.

Sorrel has a diuretic, blood purifying effect and is used for spring cures as tea, leaf salad or juice. The leaves are rich in vitamin C, but also contain a lot of oxalic acid (see below).

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