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Duck Noodle Soup

February 12, 2012 by Roxy

Duck Soup / Ciorba de Rata

Let me introduce you to our Romanian nourishing and delicious duck noodle soup (borş) with lovage leaves (leuştean). You can use any kind of meat for this soup. I used duck because we’ve had enough chicken soups over the past months and we prefer vegetable-meat soups. Lovage leaves are used as a herb for flavouring the Romanian sour soups of any kind. Nothing can beat the unique flavour of lovage and you can use it much like you would celery and parsley.  It’s fairly difficult to find it here and for this reason I tried growing my own plant in a pot. It grew nicely during the summer but died every winter when I moved it indoors… will try again next year but this time in the back yard, not a pot :).

Time: 65 min, Prep: 20 min.  Cook: 45 min.
Servings: 10-12                 

Ingredients:

  • 5 l water
  • 1 kg duck – I used the carcass, wings, neck
  • 1 onion
  • 1/4 celery root
  • 2 carrots
  • 1  pepper
  • 2 potatoes
  • 300 g diced tomatoes
  • 1 Tbsp tomato paste
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tsp Delikat Borş Magic
  • salt and pepper
  • chopped lovage leaves (Romanian leuştean)
  • Egg noodles – fresh or dry, homemade or store-bought. Which one do you think I recommend :)?

 

Directions:

Here’s the (now very) famous lovage plant.

lovage plant - leustean verde

Place duck pieces in a large pot, cover with water and bring to a boil. With a strainer or slotted spoon remove foam that forms on top of the soup and discard.

Duck Soup - Ingredients Duck Soup - Place duck in a pot with water and bring to a boil

Peel the onions, carrots, potatoes and celery root. Chop the vegetables into small cubes.

Duck Soup - chop onion Duck Soup - chop carrots Duck Soup - chop peppers Duck Soup - chop celery root

When the duck is almost cooked, add the chopped vegetables. Season with salt and pepper.

Duck Noodle Soup-8

When the vegetables are tender, add the diced tomatoes, tomato paste and borş and let it simmer for 5 more minutes. Add the egg noodles and cook until pasta is al-dente (5 minutes for fresh noodles, and 7-10 minutes for dry noodles).

Duck Noodle Soup-9

Lastly, slowly drizzle the beaten egg  into the gently simmering soup while stirring. Remove from heat and add thinly chopped lovage leaves to the soup. Season with more salt and pepper if necessary.

Duck Soup / Ciorba de Rata

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Filed Under: Duck, Romanian, Soups & Stews Tagged With: bors de rata, ciorba de rata, duck soup, homemade noodles, leustean, lovage, taietei de casa

Comments

  1. LILY says

    June 27, 2012 at 10:27 PM

    Hi,
    If you are in Toronto, I can give you a bushnel of leustean leaves, from my backyard, since I have enough in my freezer for the comming winter. Or if you know someone who would like some.

    • Roxy says

      June 28, 2012 at 10:46 PM

      Hi Lily, That’s so nice of you, thanks for offering but this year I got lucky. My leustean plant grew so nicely in the backyard.. you can see some pictures here 🙂 http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.375029932549631.101371.146009102118383&type=3

      My freezer is packed with leustean as well but if I hear anyone interested I will put them in touch with you. Thanks so much again!

      p.s. I’m in Mississauga so close enough to Toronto. I work downtown as well.

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