SOUR LENTIL SOUP WITH POTATOES

In March of this year, while visiting my friends in Vitaz, I stopped at small restaurant in near by village on the main road to Presov called Fricovce. There I was treated to best lentil soup I had ever tasted and reminded me my mothers cooking while I lived in Czechoslovakia. To create this masterpiece for ten bowls of soup you will need:
3/4 Lb. of Lentils, 1/4 Lb. of butter, 1/4 Lb. of flour, 2 quarts of broth from beef bones, bay leaf, 1 Lb. of pealed and cut up potatoes, 1 quart of milk 1 oz. of vinegar, salt and pepper.
Boil the lentils in the broth until soft. Make soup thickener, sautéed flour in butter and add the broth to it. Add bay leafs and let it cook for another 1/2 hour. Add the lentils and cook some more.

In another pot with water and salt added, cook pealed and cut up potatoes, until they are soft. Add the potatoes including water to the soup. Add milk and cook some more. You can add soup spices to the soup and to make it sour add the vinegar. You can substitute the beef bones for some smoked meat. It tastes great. If you have any old bread, cut it up in squares, fry in frying pan in little bit of butter and add to the serving.

If you going to be traveling through Fricovce call ahead, let them know you are coming, their daughter speaks English and you can have gourmet meal waiting for you for less than $ 5.00.

Call Peter Jenca at
Restaurant FRICOVCE

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Published in the Slovak Heritage Live newsletter Volume 4, No. 2, Summer 1996
Copyright © Vladimir Linder 1996 
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