DISH RESEARCH · Soup
Ciorbă de perișoare
Gina Bradea’s creamy meatball ciorbă combines minced-meat balls with vegetables and a sour-cream dressing.
About Ciorbă de perișoare
Gina Bradea’s creamy meatball ciorbă combines minced-meat balls with vegetables and a sour-cream dressing. This version selects cornmeal in the meatballs, rice in the soup and lemon juice for souring.
Celery and other roots give the broth its vegetable character, with onion, thyme, dill and pepper seasoning the mixture. Sour cream and egg yolks bring the silky quality described by the author.
The soup contains soft meatballs alongside rice and vegetable pieces. Fresh parsley joins dill inside the meatballs and also finishes the creamy broth.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Egg, Celery, Milk.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Ciorbă de perișoare
Gina Bradea’s Romanian-style creamy meatball ciorbă with cornmeal binder.
- Minced meatProtein
- OnionAromatic
- EggsBinder
- CornmealBinder
- ThymeAromatic
- Fresh dillAromatic
- SaltSeasoning
- WaterLiquid
- Celery rootBase
- Parsley rootBase
- ParsnipBase
- CarrotBase
- Bell pepperBase
- PepperSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- RiceBase
- Sour creamLiquid
- Lemon juiceSeasoning
- Fresh parsleyAromatic and garnish
- Bone brothLiquidIngredient page not linked
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Minced meat: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Animal species/ratio unprovided, not assumed beef/pork.
- Onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Meatball and soup allocations consolidated.
- Eggs: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Egg source-confirmed. Whites in balls, yolks in dressing.
- Cornmeal: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Malai option146/179, not semolina.
- Thyme: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Fresh dill: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Fresh dill selected; actual method179 additionally names parsley despite list148 offering dill or parsley.
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Broth175 and explicit hand-wetting/shaping180.
- Celery root: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Celery source-confirmed. Root identity method175.
- Parsley root: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Combined list154; method175 explicitly both roots, split unprovided.
- Parsnip: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Method175 explicit root, exact split unprovided.
- Carrot: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Bell pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Generic piper158/179 type unprovided.
- Rice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual soup-rice185 option, not inside meatballs or potato variant.
- Sour cream: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. High-fat dairy form explicit.
- Lemon juice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual souring190, not bors/vinegar union.
- Fresh parsley: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual method179 includes parsley alongside dill in the meatballs despite list148 offering alternatives; final parsley192 selected and allocations consolidated.
- Bone broth: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual own broth176, animal/vegetable/earlier full formula unknown; separate bones not added.
Origins & food traditions
Cuisines & regions
- Romanian Cuisine
- Moldovan CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Romanian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.