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Easy Frankfurter soup

In Hungary one of the most popular soups is Frankfurti leves,which is a thick soup made with cabbage, potatoes and (as you have probably guessed) Frankfurters. My kids love it, but when I don’t have a cabbage or potatoes in the larder or I have very little time to make dinner, I cook them this super easy Frankfurter soup and serve it with mini dried pasta shapes (such as hoops, letters, numbers or stars) which take only 5 minutes to cook. Despite the soup not looking very pretty, it's actually really delicious - it can be the ideal hangover remedy, too, on New Year’s Day when, according to Hungarian Tradition, eating pork brings you good luck in the coming year.
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Resting Time 4 hours
Total Time 20 minutes
Servings: 4 people
Cuisine: Mid&East European
Calories: 1234
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

  • 750 ml chicken stock
  • 2 medium carrots
  • ½ celeriac or 1 parsnip
  • 1 garlic clove
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 1 cup of frozen peas
  • 100 g green beans
  • 4-6 Frankfurters
  • 1 tsp apple cider vinegar

Method
 

  1. Clean and chop the carrots & celeriac into chunks.
  2. Put the chicken stock into a pan, add the carrots, garlic, celeriac and bay leaf. Bring the soup to the boil and cook for about 10 minutes, until the carrots are tender.
  3. Meanwhile cut the Frankfurters into 2cm pieces and cut off the ends of the beans. Add these together with the peas to the soup and cook for 5 minutes.
  4. Before serving remove the bay leaf and add the vinegar.