Creamy Dill Pickle Soup (Zupa Ogórkowa)

Creamy Dill Pickle Soup (aka Zupa Ogórkowa) is a Polish soup that’s filled with veggies, fresh dill, pickles, pickle juice, and sour cream.

While you may have seen Pickle Soup taking over on TikTok, it’s actually been around for a long time. Popular in Poland, and other countries like Russia and Ukraine, this comfort food is going to be your new favorite soup.

Dill Pickle Soup Ingredients

Here’s everything you’ll need for this recipe:

Carrots, onion, and celery: The base of your soup.

Garlic: Finely chopped.

Dill pickles: Thinly sliced.

Potatoes: Cut into small cubes.

Pickle juice: For this soup’s signature flavor.

Fresh dill: For the soup and for garnish.

Veggie stock: Or chicken.

Spices & herbs: We’ll be using dry bay leaves, black pepper, and ground mustard.

Sour cream + flour: To make the sour cream mixture.

How to Make Creamy Dill Pickle Soup

Step 1: Prep your ingredients

You’ll begin by prepping all of your ingredients. This means grating and chopping your veggies, dill, pickles, and potatoes. You can also measure out your spices, pickle juice, sour cream, flour, and stock.

Step 2: Begin your soup

Add 2 tablespoons of olive oil to the bottom of a soup pot. Add the celery, carrots, and onion and cook on medium heat until it begins to soften and become translucent (about 5 minutes).

Then, add the garlic and cook until it becomes fragrant (about 1 minute).

Then add the potatoes, stock, and spices. Mix everything and bring it to a boil, then lower slightly and cook for ~20 minutes, or until the potatoes become tender.

Step 3: Add the pickles and pickle juice

Now add the pickles, juice juice, fresh dill, and bay leaves. Let simmer for ~30 minutes.

Step 4: Make the sour cream mixture

Combine the sour cream and flour in a bowl and whisk together until it becomes smooth, like this:

Step 5: Temper the sour cream mixture and add it to the soup

Once the soup is almost done, take about ¼ cup of the simmering broth and add it to the sour cream mixture until it becomes creamy, like this:

Pour it into the simmering soup and mix together until the soup becomes slightly creamy.

Serve with a dollop of sour cream and some fresh dill. Enjoy!

Creamy Dill Pickle Soup

Creamy Dill Pickle Soup (aka Zupa Ogórkowa) is a Polish soup that's filled with veggies, pickles, pickle juice, and sour cream.

Course Soup

Cuisine Polish

Keyword dill pickle soup, pickle soup, soup, soup season

Cook Time 1

Servings 6 people

Ingredients

2 celery stalks finely chopped
1 large carrot grated (or finely chopped)
1 white onion finely chopped
4-5 garlic cloves finely chopped
3 russet potatoes cut into small cubes
1.5 cups thinly sliced dill pickles
¼ cup pickle juice brine from the jar
8 cups vegetable or chicken stock
4.5 tbs sour cream at room temperature
1.5 tbs flour
1 teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon ground mustard
2 bay leaves
½ bunch fresh dill, chopped plus more for garnish
kosher salt to taste

Instructions

Add 2 tbs olive oil to a soup pot along with the carrots, onion, and celery. Cook until softened and translucent, about 5 minutes, then add the garlic and cook until fragrant (about 1 minute).
Add the potatoes, stock, black pepper, and ground mustard. Bring to a boil, then lower slightly and cook until the potatoes are tender, about 20 minutes.
Add the pickles, pickle juice, bay leaves, and dill. Stir and let simmer for about 30 minutes.
In the meantime, whisk together the sour cream and flour and set aside.
Once the soup is almost done, take ¼–½ cup of the simmering broth and add it to the sour cream mixture. Whisk together until it becomes creamy and then pour it into the soup. Mix together, adjust seasoning as needed, and serve with another dollop of sour cream and more fresh dill.