jota
Slovenia · Europe
- Short description
- Jota is a hearty sour stew where fermented vegetables, beans, potatoes, and pork cook into a thick bowl.
- Ingredients
- Sauerkraut or sour turnip cooked with beans, potatoes, smoked pork, garlic, bay leaf, and pepper.
- Cultural note
- Its sourness is not garnish; fermented vegetables provide the backbone of the stew.
- Common misconception
- It is closer to a thick bean-and-sauerkraut stew than to a light cabbage soup.
image credit
- creator:
- Jernej Furman from Maribor, Slovenia
- source:
- Wikimedia Commons
- license:
- CC BY 2.0
- modified:
- Resized for Gochizu.
audio credit
- voice:
- marin (gpt-4o-mini-tts)
- source:
- OpenAI API Text to Speech
- license:
- OpenAI API generated audio
- modified:
- AI-generated voice audio.