Saltibarsciai is a cold beet soup that is traditional in Lithuania. One of my RA's suggested that we make it for our staff meeting tonight, and she coordinated all the ingredient gathering and supervised us while we made it. The soup includes cucumber, beets, dill, green onion, hard boiled eggs, kefyras (thick sour milk). Then we roasted potatoes with garlic and salt, and added those to the soup along with sour cream as a garnish. It sounds weird, but it's actually quite good! The sweet beets and eggs and salty potatoes balance out the kefyras. I can't eat kefyras plain, but in this soup it's delicious!
cucumbers, dill, green onions, beets and eggs waiting to add kefyras
waiting to eat
Ira, who coordinated the evening's meal
mmm i think it sounds good b/c i love beets...but i think i would have a hard time eating it cold! i can't quite figure out the whole cold soup thing!! ;-p
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