Soot Soup with Pig Silhouette
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TypeSoup
Serves4 people
DateOctober 23, 2026
Smoky soup with a pig silhouette of egg and sausage, nodding to the endangered cave paintings.
A hearty, smoky soup topped with halved boiled eggs and sausage slices forming a prehistoric pig silhouette, echoing Sulawesi’s endangered cave paintings. The pig shape is a direct nod to the news about the threatened rock art.
Ingredients
- 1 onion
- 2 cloves garlic
- 2 carrots
- 2 stalks celery
- 1 red bell pepper
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- 1 liter beef stock
- 200 g potatoes
- 4 boiled eggs
- 100 g smoked sausage
- salt and pepper to taste
- 2 tbsp chopped parsley
Method
- Finely chop the onion and garlic. Cut carrot, celery, and bell pepper into pieces.
- Heat olive oil in a soup pot. Sauté onion and garlic for 2 minutes. Add carrot, celery, and bell pepper, cook for 5 minutes.
- Add smoked paprika and cook briefly. Pour in the stock and add diced potatoes.
- Bring to a boil and simmer for 20 minutes until everything is tender. Season with salt and pepper.
- Slice the sausage and halve the boiled eggs lengthwise.
- Ladle soup into deep bowls. Place a halved egg as the pig’s head and arrange sausage slices in an arc behind it for the body. Use small carrot pieces for legs.
- Sprinkle with parsley.
Serving notes
- Serve immediately so the silhouette stays visible.
- Offer with rustic bread for extra comfort.