Flaki (Polish Tripe Soup)

Come on — don't you want to try a dish with a name like that?! This summer I visited Poland and, of course, sampled some wonderful Polish cooking. It's always fun to get to know a country's culinary "landmarks." And on the menu of just about any decent restaurant, among the soups, you'll find a Polish dish called flaki. You can make this tasty soup yourself — you just need a little patience. The star ingredient is beef tripe.

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 55 % 12 g
Fats 32 % 7 g
Carbohydrates 14 % 3 g
123 kcal
GI: 50 / 0 / 50
  • The tripe needs to be cleaned thoroughly so it has no off odors. Scrape it with a knife — or better yet, a brush — rinse it several times in cold water, boil it, and discard the cooking water. Repeat the process if needed. Now make a bone broth, pour off half of it, and cook the tripe in the broth remaining in the pot. This takes about 4 hours, but we're not after shortcuts here — and the dish is well worth the effort! Then add half of the pre-cut vegetables to the broth, and sauté the other half in fat. Lightly fry the flour in fat, whisk in the half of the broth you set aside, and bring it to a boil. Slice the cooked tripe thin, add it to the flour-thickened sauce along with the vegetables, and season to taste with salt, pepper, and nutmeg. Serve with grated cheese, more pepper, marjoram, and ginger. Now you can dig into this legendary Polish dish!

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Onion - 41  kcal/100g
  • Carrots - 33  kcal/100g
  • Dried carrots - 275  kcal/100g
  • Boiled carrots - 25  kcal/100g
  • Dutch cheese - 352  kcal/100g
  • Swiss cheese - 335  kcal/100g
  • Russian cheese - 366  kcal/100g
  • Kostroma cheese - 345  kcal/100g
  • Yaroslavsky cheese - 361  kcal/100g
  • Altai cheese 50% fat content - 356  kcal/100g
  • Soviet cheese - 400  kcal/100g
  • Cheese 'steppe' - 362  kcal/100g
  • Uglich cheese - 347  kcal/100g
  • Poshekhonsky cheese - 350  kcal/100g
  • Lambert cheese - 377  kcal/100g
  • Appnzeller cheese with 50% fat content - 400  kcal/100g
  • Chester cheese with 50% fat content - 363  kcal/100g
  • Edamer cheese with 40% fat content - 340  kcal/100g
  • Cheese with mushrooms of 50% fat content - 395  kcal/100g
  • Emmental cheese with 45% fat content - 420  kcal/100g
  • Gouda cheese with 45% fat content - 356  kcal/100g
  • Aiadeus cheese - 364  kcal/100g
  • Dom blanc cheese (semi-hard) - 360  kcal/100g
  • Lo spalmino cheese - 61  kcal/100g
  • Cheese 'etorki' (sheep, hard) - 401  kcal/100g
  • White cheese - 100  kcal/100g
  • Fat yellow cheese - 260  kcal/100g
  • Altai cheese - 355  kcal/100g
  • Kaunas cheese - 355  kcal/100g
  • Latvian cheese - 316  kcal/100g
  • Limburger cheese - 327  kcal/100g
  • Lithuanian cheese - 250  kcal/100g
  • Lake cheese - 350  kcal/100g
  • Gruyere cheese - 396  kcal/100g
  • Ginger - 80  kcal/100g
  • Dry ginger - 347  kcal/100g
  • Pickled ginger - 51  kcal/100g
  • Marjoram - 271  kcal/100g
  • Ground black pepper - 255  kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour fortified - 333  kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour, universal - 364  kcal/100g
  • Flour krupchatka - 348  kcal/100g
  • Flour - 325  kcal/100g
  • Butter 82% - 734  kcal/100g
  • Amateur unsalted butter - 709  kcal/100g
  • Unsalted peasant butter - 661  kcal/100g
  • Peasant salted butter - 652  kcal/100g
  • Melted butter - 869  kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0  kcal/100g
  • Ground red pepper - 318  kcal/100g
  • Parsley root - 49  kcal/100g
  • Beef bones - 105  kcal/100g
  • Scar - 97  kcal/100g
  • Nutmeg - 556  kcal/100g

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