Zamă aită (garlicky chicken soup)
A chicken zamă (Transylvanian soup) with garlic, finished with egg and sour cream.
Classic method
Ingredients
- 650 g bone-in chicken
- 2 carrots (200 g)
- 1 onion (120 g)
- 1 parsnip (80 g)
- 2.2 l water
- 4 garlic cloves (15 g)
- 2 egg yolks
- 180 g sour cream, 20%
- 20 ml vinegar or lemon juice, to taste
- Salt and fresh parsley
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How to make it
- Boil the chicken in salted water, skim off the foam and add the peeled soup vegetables; leave over a low heat until the meat is tender.
- Take out the chicken, pull the meat off the bones and return it to the soup. Add the crushed garlic.
- Beat the egg yolks with the sour cream. Temper the mixture with 3–4 ladlefuls of hot soup, then pour it into the pot with the heat turned off; do not let it boil again.
- Add the vinegar or lemon juice gradually, until the soup is as sour as you like, and sprinkle with parsley. Serve hot.
Nutritional values
Estimare automată din ingrediente: 7 din 9 recunoscute; fără valori pentru: 1 păstârnac (80 g), Sare și pătrunjel verde.
Source: Inspired by the book Stories and dishes from Luna (p. 8). The weights, times and TM6/TM7 directions are an editorial adaptation for today's kitchen, not a transcription of the text from the
Part of: Stories and dishes from Luna
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