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Borí-Borí: Intriguing Paraguayan soup - labradors - 12-04-2010 Okay. Here's the other soup I discovered while searching for information about the Tomaticán. Italians may have their meatballs and Jewish people may have their matzoh balls, but the Paraguayans, through their Guaraní ancestors, have Borí-Borí: small balls of cheese and corn meal that take their Guaraní name, instead of what they would be called in Spanish (bolitas). These may be served with tomato sauce, but are usually put into some kind of soup. Here are a few photos I found on the Internet: As with many traditional recipes, there are many variations, as you may be able to see in the photos. Here are what appear to be the two most common recipes: the basic Borí-Borí Soup and Borí-Borí Blanco. Another one that's common is Borí-Borí con Puchero de Gallina (Borí-Borí with Hen Stew), but that's just a version of the first one with a whole hen or a hen cut into parts. Borí-Borí Soup Ingredients: For the soup:
Borí-Borí Blanco Ingredients:
The first of these is the one I'll be trying while I wait to see if Francis Mallmann posts his own recipe for the Tomaticán. Am placing it on the schedule for NEXT Saturday, since there are other things I need to finish up and other things to do, as well. Re: Borí-Borí: Intriguing Paraguayan soup - luvnit - 12-04-2010 I would sure love to try both of these soups right now! Re: Borí-Borí: Intriguing Paraguayan soup - cjs - 12-04-2010 At first they looked like a cheese dumpling, then more of a gnocchi, then a gem all of their own. Copied. How interesting. Re: Borí-Borí: Intriguing Paraguayan soup - Gourmet_Mom - 12-04-2010 Sounds really yummy, Labs. Copied and saved. Re: Borí-Borí: Intriguing Paraguayan soup - Mare749 - 12-04-2010 Looks like comfort food to me. They all look delicious. Re: Borí-Borí: Intriguing Paraguayan soup - labradors - 12-04-2010 Jean, they ARE, essentially, "cheese dumplings" with cornmeal and chicken stock holding everything together. The particular combination does, however, seem to be unique to Paraguay (except when Argentines, Chileans, et al decide to cook Paraguayan cuisine). This and the Tomaticán sound AND look scrumptious and I shall post reviews when the time comes. BTW one of the other recipes I encountered for the Borí-Borí was from a CIA soup cookbook, but it called for added AP flour and baking powder in the borí-borí and had other differences that were not reflected in the recipes FROM Paraguay nor in the "I remember my grandmother's Borí-Borí" reminiscences on other sites, so I left the CIA recipe out of the discussion. Re: Borí-Borí: Intriguing Paraguayan soup - Harborwitch - 12-04-2010 Sounds like another winner. Thank you. We're thinking to tomatoes and eggs tomorrow am. This is intriguing and may make it onto the menu soon. Thanks again! Re: Borí-Borí: Intriguing Paraguayan soup - labradors - 12-15-2010 Wow! Loved this. Definitely a keeper. Just one note/adjustment: this makes a LOT of the dumplings. Depending upon how "brothy" you like your soup, I would suggest making only half to three quarters of the dumplings (but all of the soup). For now, I have fished out about half of the dumplings to freeze for the next batch. Great stuff, though. I'm still saying, "Wow!" Re: Borí-Borí: Intriguing Paraguayan soup - Gourmet_Mom - 12-15-2010 And suddenly I find myself drooling. Re: Borí-Borí: Intriguing Paraguayan soup - cjs - 12-16-2010 Me too - everything is copied. |