🥣 Ingredients
- 1/2 kg potatoes
- 1 onion
- 1 pepper
- 2 carrots
- 1 parsnip
- 1 bunch of parsley
- 1 egg
- 150 ml sour cream
- oil, salt and pepper
👩🍳 Instructions
Wash, clean and chop the vegetables. Heat a few tablespoons of oil in a saucepan and add the onion, pepper, carrots and parsnips. Let the vegetables fry for a few minutes and add the potatoes when they have softened.
Mix the diced potatoes with the vegetables and leave everything to fry for about a minute or two, then put about a liter and a half of water in the pot. Season the potato soup with salt to taste and simmer for about 20 minutes.
Beat an egg yolk well with 150 ml of sour cream, then gradually pour a little juice from the potato soup over it. Add the mixture of egg yolk, sour cream and juice to the soup, mix well, turn off the heat and add the finely chopped parsley and pepper.
📖 Story of the recipe
Recipe from Ileana Stan, 75 years old, from Săpânța, a locality in Maramureș known for the Merry Cemetery and its deeply preserved traditions. This potato soup with sour cream is a simple, nourishing recipe, typical of the rural Maramureș area, where basic ingredients were always at hand.
