Every Finnish household should have this mojakka soup on hand. With flatbread (leipa), if desired.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 2 hrs 55 mins |
| Total Time: | 3 hrs 15 mins |
| Servings: | 6 |
Ingredients
- 2 sticks butter
- 3 pounds boneless beef roast
- 4 ½ cups water, divided
- 1 onion, thinly sliced
- 2 teaspoons salt
- ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
- 4 potatoes, cubed
- 4 carrots, chopped
- 2 stalks celery, chopped
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
Instructions
- Melt butter in a large pot over medium-high heat. Cook beef in hot butter until browned on all sides. Pour in 4 cups water and bring to a boil. Add onion, salt, and pepper. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 1 hour.
- Add potatoes, carrots, and celery; simmer for 1 1/2 more hours.
- Whisk together remaining 1/2 cup water and flour in a small bowl to form a thin paste; stir into soup and simmer until thickened, about 15 minutes.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 891 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 34 g |
| Cholesterol | 227 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 5 g |
| Protein | 50 g |
| Saturated Fat | 31 g |
| Sodium | 1176 mg |
| Sugars | 4 g |
| Fat | 62 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
My mom use to make this and added peppercorns, no bay leaves.
Favorite of my family. Taught to make by my Finnish Aunt. You must use 3 Bay Leaves to this recipe and only use butter NO MARGARINE.
I make this boiled dinner (Mojakka) with a ham base. I boil down a smoked hammock for stock, add all the vegies: onion, carrots, rutabaga, potatoes, and for the last 10 mins cabbage. Spices are pepper, allspice, garlic, accent, and bay leaves. Then add about two cups of chopped ham. Hmmmmm on a cold winter day… Of course a good homemade bread makes it even better!
Instead of beef roast I used a meat alternative and added a pinch of turmeric delicious
I have made this soup/stew many times… I also add 3 whole allspice, 2 bay leafs, rutabaga , and parsnips, this is a root vegetable soup after all… This is a great recipe to build off, to suit your family needs/likes… Thanks for the share… 🙂
Unfortunately we didn’t like this at all. It tasted very bland, had to finish it by adding A1 steak sauce.
Needs all spice for sure! Plus rutabaga!! Finn for 84 years
Loved it. It was soooo good. My husband even complimented and usually he picks things apart. I did add about a tsp. of allspice to it per some of the other reviews. I cooked mine longer too. After the veggies went in I cooked it for about 2 more hours instead of 1 1/2 hrs. The meat was so tinder. Can’t wait for left overs at lunch today!
Mojakka is one of my favourite comfort foods. My mom makes the best mojakka. This is pretty much exactly the same way that she makes it except that she adds whole allspice (I’m honestly not sure how much… for a big pot, probably about a tablespoonful). The only problem I have whenever I try to make it myself is that the beef always turns out tough. I haven’t figured out what I do wrong…
Personally, I adore mojakko (unless it’s kalamojakka, ask an American Finn about that), but mojakko isn’t eaten in Finland. It’s kind of the Finnish-American equivalent of green beer.
This was the recipe I have been looking for! My family loved it!
This recipe was exactly what I was looking for. Perfect ingredients, and easy to make. My Finnish grandmother was very impressed.
My mother and grandmother always added whole allspice to the broth instead of cracked pepper. Also you can add carrots and/or rutabaga. It is the essence of comfort food on a cold winter day!