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Bohrach, kettle over fire
Mykhailo Rusyn
Chef-owner, Kolyba Verkhovyna, Uzhhorod, UA
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Bohrach, kettle over fire

3 h 30 min total70 min hands-onServes 8Medium

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Paprika goes in off the heat or the whole kettle turns bitter, and that is the only step with no margin.

WHAT YOU GET

  • The chef's hidden note — the technique no cookbook prints
  • Every component built from scratch, each with its own spec
  • Films on choosing and judging the produce before you buy it
  • Gross and net gram weights for every ingredient, per portion
  • Time and temperature at each stage, as run in the restaurant
  • A photo at every step that can go wrong
  • Substitutions for anything hard to find where you live
  • What usually goes wrong, and what to do about it

Yours for good once bought. Updates from the chef included.

BEFORE YOU BUY

Equipment
Cast iron kettle or heavy casserole, Long-handled spoon
Allergens
Gluten
Method
25 steps · 17 photographed · 5 filmed
Components
3 made from scratch
Films
3, 18 min

3 RECIPES INSIDE THIS RECIPE

Each with its own weights, steps and timings

The sauce, the cure, the dough, the dressing — a restaurant makes these itself, and so will you. Every one below is a full sub-recipe: its own ingredient list, its own method, its own yield and shelf life. Nothing says «use shop-bought».

Onion and lard base

Onions cooked slowly in pork lard until they collapse into a sweet, jammy base with no colour on them.

This is the body of the soup, and no amount of paprika later makes up for rushing it.

  • Yellow onions000 g
  • Pork lard000 g
Steps
5
Time
55 min
Hands-on
30 min

Makes 600 g from 1.5 kg of onions; keeps 3 days chilled

Up to 3 days ahead; it improves overnight.

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Paprika and caraway paste

Film

Sweet paprika slaked with warm lard and ground caraway, made up before the pot is anywhere near it.

Paprika burns in seconds and turns the whole kettle bitter; having it ready as a paste buys you the time.

  • Sweet paprika000 g
  • Hot paprika000 g
Steps
4
Time
15 min
Hands-on
12 min

Makes 180 g, enough for one kettle; use within the day

Right before the base is ready. It has to go in warm and loose.

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Csipetke

A stiff egg dough pinched into small irregular pieces and dropped into the soup in the last minutes.

Dried pasta goes slimy and clouds the broth; pinched dough holds its bite and thickens it slightly.

  • Wheat flour000 g
  • Egg000 g
Steps
4
Time
40 min
Hands-on
20 min

Makes 250 g; rest 30 minutes, use the same day

Mix and rest while the meat is cooking.

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WEIGHED

INGREDIENTS

A taste of the list · the rest locked

A few ingredients to show you what the dish is built on. Every one on the full list carries a gross and a net weight per portion, and a note on what you can swap it for where you live.

  • Beef shin000 g
  • Smoked pork ribs000 g
  • Sweet paprika000 g
  • Yellow onions000 g
  • Red peppers000 g
The full list, weighed, unlocks on purchase

WATCH BEFORE YOU SHOP

3 films · 18 min

Most of what goes wrong is decided at the counter, before you cook anything. These are filmed by the chef: what to buy, how to tell it is good, and how to set your own kitchen up for it.

CHOOSING7:00

Buying paprika: grind, colour and how old is too old

TECHNIQUE5:00

Taking the pot off the heat before the paprika

KIT6:00

A kettle over fire, and a casserole on the hob

METHOD

STEP BY STEP — 25 STEPS

17 photographed · 5 filmed

Written the way a restaurant writes a technical card: one operation per step, each with its own time and temperature. 17 of the 25 carry a photo of what it should look like at that moment, and 5 carry a short clip for the parts a still cannot show.

Hardest step: paprika in off the heat — step 15 of 25.

  1. 01

    Read the whole method before you start, then weigh everything out. Every timing below assumes the next ingredient is already within reach.

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  2. 02
  3. 03
  4. 04
  5. 05
  6. 06
  7. + 19 more steps, timed and photographed

WHERE IT USUALLY GOES WRONG

3 things Mykhailo Rusyn watches for every service. You can read what they are right now — the answer to each one comes with the recipe.

  1. 01

    Paprika into a pot that was still too hot

    What to do about it
  2. 02

    Potatoes in too early, gone to mush

    What to do about it
  3. 03

    Salting before the smoked ribs have given up theirs

    What to do about it
The chef's hidden note

The temperature the pot has to fall to before the paprika goes in, and how long you have before it climbs back.

Written by Mykhailo Rusyn. Visible only to people who bought this recipe.

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NOTES FROM THE KITCHENS

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