Slovenia / Soup
Jota
A thick soup of soured turnip or sauerkraut with beans, potato and smoked meat.
Ingredients
- Soured turnip or sauerkraut600 g
- Beans, soaked overnight300 g
- Potatoes500 g
- Smoked pork ribs400 g
- Smoked sausage200 g
- Onion1
- Garlic4 cloves
- Bay leaf2
- Vegetable oil40 ml
- Salt and pepperto taste
Quantities are auto-calculated from the original recipe as a guide. Items without numbers (e.g. “to taste”) are not changed.
Method 7 steps
Boil the soaked beans in a separate pot until soft, an hour. Keep the water.
Simmer the smoked ribs in a litre and a half of water for forty minutes with the bay.
Add the soured turnip or sauerkraut with some of its brine and cook twenty minutes.
Add the diced potato and sausage and cook twenty minutes more.
Fry the onion and garlic in oil until golden and stir them into the soup.
Add the beans with their water, mash some of the potato in the pot and cook five minutes.
Strip the meat from the bones, return it to the soup and season with salt and pepper.
