Makes six to eight servings
Time frame: 1⁄2 hour
Ingredients
- 2 to 3 onions
- 2 tbs. vegetable oil
- 3 potatoes
- 2 carrots
- 6 cloves garlic
- 2 tbs. butter
- 1 cup kishk
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 3 tbs. fresh parsley
Directions
Dice onions and sauté in oil in a soup pot. Once the onion is translucent, add 2 quarts of water and bring to a boil. Add diced potatoes and carrots (and any other ingredients you like). Cook until soft. Mince garlic and sauté it in butter in a separate skillet. Add kishk, and sauté a minute or so. Then take about 1 cup of liquid from the soup pot and add it to the kishk and garlic. Stir until well blended, then add the liquefied kishk-garlic mixture to the soup. Add salt and pepper to taste. Cook five to 10 minutes, then serve, garnished with parsley.
Recipe excerpted from Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods by Sandor Ellix Katz (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2003).
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