Nancy Young > wrote in message >...

I'm in the hunt for a recipe for the soup
> that does not involve beans, just ground beef and tomato/paprika
> broth, with cabbage. Obviously I will just wing it.

My recipe* is:

12 cups pork or beef broth**
5 fresh tomatoes plus 1/2 cup tomato juice, or 1 28 oz can tomatoes
1 small can tomato paste
1-2 cups pork or beef, from the bones or otherwise
1 green pepper, diced
1 red pepper, diced
1 hot Hungarian red pepper (fresh or dried), finely chopped, or 2 tsp
paprika
1 cup diced/sliced carrots
1 cup diced/sliced zucchini
1-2 cups shredded cabbage
2 cups diced potatoes, or 1/2 cup rice, or 1 1/2 cup cooked rice
noodles
1 tablespoon salt-free Italian mixed herbs (Safeway brand is best!)
1/4 tsp sugar, if tomatoes are overly sour
salt, pepper to taste

Seed and skin fresh tomatoes, if you're using them. Add tomatoes
(fresh or canned), tomato paste, and meat to degreased broth. Simmer 1
to 2 hours. Add peppers, carrots, and potatoes/rice and simmer 30
minutes. Add Italian herbs, salt, pepper, zucchini, and cabbage and
simmer 15 minutes.

If you add cooked rice noodles, add them towards the end.

*I don't add onion or garlic because of family allergies. I would
suspect 1 diced onion and 3 cloves garlic would be about right, YMMV.

**Safeway here (Calgary Garrison Woods) carries pork bones in the
'other meats' area for about 49 cents a pound. They're usually loaded
with meat, enough so that you can get 1-2 cups of meat and 12 cups of
flavourful stock out of less than a dollar's worth of bones! Check
with your butcher if your store doesn't carry them.

wd39