Frittaten Suppe- Pancake Soup

Well todays soup comes from Austria. This is my husband´s favourite soup that he loves eating only when we visit his mother. I don’t know why I never tried that at home before. As it gets harder to choose a menu for everyday, I came to the idea that he must be missing this soup. It is really very simple but a bit time taking as the pancakes should be seperately prepared. It is a typical  traditional Austrian soup which was made by the farmers in the former times. As they worked outside in the mountains in the cold, they needed sth rich and heavy to give them energy. Those times are over, but this soup has found its place in the traditional cuisine of Austria.

INGREDIENTS: 

1,5 liters of water
3 soup cubes (I prefered the beef cubes)
1 medium size onion (peeled and sliced)
3 carrots
2 pieces of leek 

3-4 pcs of fresh parsley
1 piece of celery
5 pcs of chives (to serve)


For the pancake : (Julia Child´s pate a crepes recipe)

4 eggs
1 1/2cup of flour
1 cup of cold milk

1 cup of cold water
1 tbs melted butter

1/2 salt
salt

HOW TO COOK:

Soup:

Put all the ingredients of the soup in the pan and boil in low heat. 

Pancake:

Put all the liquids and beat them with a mixer. Adding the flour and the melted butter finish the beating. Make sure that there are no residues on the sides of the container. With the help of a rubber spatula, dislodge it and mix again until you get a homogenous mixture. Cover it and rest it in the fridge for about 2 hours.

Take the batter out from the fridge. Get a nonstick pan and pour a few drops of olive oil for the first crepe. Take a spoon and pour the batter starting from the middle of the pan and turn it around with the other hand to give it a good round shape. Wait about a minute to have a nice gold color for the first side and half a minute for the other side.

 

As the cooking part is over, cut the pancakes in thin slices to mix later on in the soup when serving.

 

SERVE:                  

In a soup bowl, put the sliced the pancakes in and pour the liquid part of the soup, spread the cut chives over and serve. 

I hope you enjoy making this soup from Austria!

MAHLZEIT!

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