DISH RESEARCH · Soup
Ciorbă de burtă
Romanian tripe soup with beef broth, sour cream and egg yolks.
About Ciorbă de burtă
Gina Bradea’s traditional Romanian ciorbă de burtă combines tripe with broth from beef feet, sour cream and egg yolks. This profile selects her fresh-tripe option and the conventional-pot method she also provides.
Garlic and vinegar give the creamy soup its characteristic sharpness. Onion, carrot, bay and pepper flavour the broth, while carrot-coloured oil contributes a golden surface.
Thin tripe and cartilage strips sit in a silky soup. The source serves it hot with bread, hot pepper and table condiments, with pickled gogoșari offered optionally.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Egg, Milk, Wheat (gluten).
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Ciorbă de burtă
Gina Bradea’s traditional fresh-tripe ciorbă with beef feet.
- Beef feetProtein
- Fresh tripeProteinIngredient page not linked
- OnionAromatic
- CarrotAromatic
- GarlicAromatic
- Bay leavesAromatic
- SaltSeasoning
- PepperSeasoning
- Egg yolksBinder
- Full-fat sour creamLiquid
- VinegarLiquid
- FlourBinder
- OilCooking medium
- WaterLiquid
- Baking sodaSeasoning · Optional preparation · Optional
- Fresh breadAccompaniment
- Hot pepperAccompaniment
- MujdeiAccompanimentIngredient page not linked
- Pickled gogoșariAccompaniment · Optional serving · OptionalIngredient page not linked
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Beef feet: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Broader beef identity; source scalded/cleaned beef feet, marrow/cartilage endogenous.
- Fresh tripe: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit fresh rather than preboiled/frozen option; animal species not separately specified.
- Onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Broth onion and optional cleaning-water allocation consolidated.
- Carrot: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Broth and carrot-coloured oil allocations consolidated.
- Garlic: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Broth and final raw garlic allocations consolidated.
- Bay leaves: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Cleaning, soup and table allocations consolidated.
- Pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Broader black-pepper candidate for stock peppercorns; final table pepper form/type not separately fixed.
- Egg yolks: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Egg source-confirmed
- Full-fat sour cream: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Cream choice selected over yogurt; soup and table allocation consolidated.
- Vinegar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Cleaning, soup and table allocations consolidated; substrate left broad.
- Flour: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat (gluten) unconfirmed. Cereal identity unspecified; historical thickener retained, Wheat pending.
- Oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit carrot-colouring medium; botanical kind unprovided.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. All explicitly named cleaning, stock, tripe and top-up water consolidated.
- Baking soda (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Optional first beef-bone cleaning water additive.
- Fresh bread: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat (gluten) source-confirmed. Ordinary bread side explicit; exact loaf formula unknown.
- Hot pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Broader hot chilli identity; variety unknown.
- Mujdei: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Named prepared garlic condiment; full formula unprovided.
- Pickled gogoșari (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Optional sliced vinegar-pickled peppers; exact cultivar/product formula unknown.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
Cuisines & regions
- Romanian Cuisine
- Romanian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Moldovan CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Wallachian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.