DISH RESEARCH · Soup
Shkembe Chorba
Also known as: Шкембе чорба
Bulgarian beef-tripe soup with milk and paprika butter, with a garlic-vinegar topping.
About Shkembe Chorba
The Food Kooky’s shkembe chorba is a Bulgarian beef-tripe soup made regularly in the author’s household. It belongs to a broader Bulgarian repertoire of tripe soups with several variations.
Whole milk and paprika butter give this rendition its rich broth. Onion, carrot, garlic and black pepper flavour the tripe stock, while the offered garlic-and-cider-vinegar topping adds tanginess.
The soup is served hot with bite-sized pieces of tripe in the broth. Chilli flakes can add heat, and crusty round bread is offered alongside for the creamy, savoury liquid.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Milk.
Optional additions: Wheat (gluten).
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Shkembe Chorba
The Food Kooky's Bulgarian beef-tripe shkembe chorba.
- Beef honeycomb tripeProtein
- OnionAromatic
- GarlicAromatic
- CarrotAromatic
- Black peppercorns for stockSeasoning
- Pepper for finished soup, unspecifiedSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- WaterLiquid
- ButterCooking medium
- Sweet paprikaSeasoning
- Whole milkLiquid
- SaltSeasoning
- Apple cider vinegarGarnish · Optional
- Red chilli flakesGarnish · Optional
- Bread flour for crusty breadAccompaniment · Optional
- Sugar for breadSweetener · Optional
- Active dry yeast for breadAccompaniment · Optional
- Flour for bread dusting, cereal unspecifiedCooking medium · OptionalIngredient page not linked
- Rakia fruit brandyAccompaniment · OptionalIngredient page not linked
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Beef honeycomb tripe: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual71 explicit beef honeycomb, no pork or mushroom alternate.
- Onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Garlic: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Required stock73 plus optional topping89 share main garlic.
- Carrot: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Black peppercorns for stock: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual stock75 explicit black peppercorns. Separate finished-soup85/108 pepper is unspecified and retained independently.
- Pepper for finished soup, unspecified: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual85/108 generic finishing pepper, exact botanical identity/form unprovided; not automatically equated to distinct explicit stock black peppercorns75.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual94 literal stock water, full own stock expanded; optional own-bread current enabled105 water shared, main required.
- Butter: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual78/105 European dairy butter, Milk confirmed; Kerrygold35 named preference not plant-fat substitution.
- Sweet paprika: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual79 first sweet over smoked paprika alternative, no union.
- Whole milk: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual84 and34 whole dairy milk known.
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Main85/108 and optional own-bread current enabled109 shared required.
- Apple cider vinegar (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual90 topping; actual10 expressly optional although later39 calls flavour essential. Included default topping with literal omission permission retained, not silently made compulsory.
- Red chilli flakes (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual91/117 topping; broad flakes candidate, cultivar unknown, optional actual10.
- Bread flour for crusty bread (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat (gluten) source-confirmed. Pinned own-bread enabled108 first bread flour over high-protein AP alternative. Offered soup-side39 parent optional, Wheat known.
- Sugar for bread (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Pinned own-bread enabled106, side-only optional.
- Active dry yeast for bread (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Pinned own-bread enabled107 first active dry over instant alternate, actual113/115 bloom with first water19/105 rather than milk19.
- Flour for bread dusting, cereal unspecified (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Pinned own-bread enabled110/124/129/131 separate generic contact flour, unresolved, side-only optional.
- Rakia fruit brandy (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Main39 customary offered drink, optional and exact fruit/product formula unknown, no cereal or Sulphites guess.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Bulgaria
- GreeceCatalogue link pending review
- BulgariaCatalogue link pending review
- North MacedoniaCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Bulgarian Cuisine
- Greek Macedonian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- North Macedonian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Bulgarian CuisineCatalogue link pending review