{"id":915,"date":"2017-04-26T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T15:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/villasentieri.com\/?post_type=recipe&p=915"},"modified":"2026-09-02T10:59:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:59:20","slug":"slovak-caraway-soup-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/villasentieri.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/26\/slovak-caraway-soup-recipe\/","title":{"rendered":"Slovak Caraway Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"

April 26, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n

Growing up with an ethnically Italian mother and an ethnically Slovak father, we mostly ate Italian food with Slovak food appearing on the table every week or two.\u00a0 On Sundays we usually went to visit my father\u2019s parents and got a bit more Slovak food.<\/p>\n

There were some classic American dishes that appeared on our table, too.\u00a0 But, honestly, not that often.\u00a0 The only thing my mother made that I didn\u2019t like was hamburgers.\u00a0 Well, that and liver.<\/p>\n

But even my mother didn\u2019t like liver.\u00a0 She made it because my father liked it.\u00a0 There was never the expectation that anyone else would eat it.<\/p>\n

When she made liver\u2026and that process involved running from the living room, through the dining room,\u00a0to the kitchen to turn the liver as it saut\u00e9ed and then running back to the living room to avoid the smell\u2026she always made something else for the rest of us.\u00a0 Well, that wasn\u2019t so unusual either.\u00a0 Remember\u2026Southern Italian mother\u2026food is important\u2026everyone needs to eat.\u00a0 There were nights when she would make one meal for my father, one for my sister, and one for me.\u00a0 She would eat one of the three.<\/p>\n

We always ate dinner together as a family and, despite the comment above, we usually at the same meal.\u00a0 Sometimes, though, we each got individually catered food.<\/p>\n

But back to hamburgers for a moment.\u00a0\u00a0My mother was a great cook.\u00a0 I know she used really good beef for her hamburgers.\u00a0 She usually picked out a whole cut and had the butcher grind it.\u00a0 She never bought ground beef that I recall.\u00a0 I still follow the basic blueprint of her hamburger recipe today and enjoy it.\u00a0 So, I can\u2019t really tell you why I thought her hamburgers were awful.\u00a0 But I did.<\/p>\n

Soup was a big deal in our house.\u00a0 My father really liked soup.\u00a0 Interestingly, I don\u2019t remember having Caraway Soup more than a few times while growing up.\u00a0 I do know, however, that while I was in college I got the recipe from my mother after it appeared on our table one day.\u00a0 It seemed like a revelation.<\/p>\n

It has been a regular on my<\/em> table ever since.

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Slovak Caraway Soup<\/h2>\n
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This is a light, refreshing soup based on a vegetable broth for which the ingredients are almost always on hand. I like serving it as a first course though it works equally well for lunch or as a light supper. Grating the vegetables on the large holes of a box grater was one of my mother\u2019s tricks. It makes fast work of prep and the small pieces quickly flavor the broth.<\/div>\n
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Prep Time <\/span>15 minutes<\/span><\/span> mins<\/span><\/span><\/div>
Cook Time <\/span>1 hour<\/span><\/span> hr<\/span><\/span><\/div>
Total Time <\/span>2 hours<\/span><\/span> hrs<\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n
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Servings: <\/span>6<\/span> people<\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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