Moose soup
Moose meat browned and boiled with salt beef, root vegetables and barley.
One boiler, feeds a house · About an hour and a half, after an overnight soak
What you need
- moose meat
- salt beef or salt pork
- onion
- carrot
- turnip
- parsnip
- potatoes
- celery
- broth or water
- pearl barley or rice
- tomato soup
- thyme
- rosemary
- sea salt
- black pepper
- oil
How it's done
- 1. Soak the salt beef overnight, or at least six hours.
- 2. Cut the moose in cubes and brown it in a frying pan, seasoned with pepper and onion powder.
- 3. Add cubed onion to the pan and fry a few minutes more.
- 4. Peel and cube the vegetables and hold them in cold water.
- 5. Bring eight to ten cups of broth or water to the boil in a large boiler. Cut the soaked salt beef in cubes and add it.
- 6. Add the fried moose and onion and boil an hour on medium.
- 7. Add the vegetables, the tomato soup and the barley or rice, and boil until everything is tender. Season at the end.
Where to get a feed
Moose is licensed hunting here, not commerce, so it is not sold in restaurants. You meet it in a house or at a community supper that says so.