Tasty soup, which belongs to Georgian cuisine, is prepared, according to the classic recipe, from a large amount of meat, tomatoes, spices, as well as fresh vegetables and herbs.
About how to cook kharcho soup in a slow cooker, recipes with photos and much more - in our article.
Description
Translated, the very name of the dish means "beef meat soup." According to the traditional Caucasian recipe, it is prepared from lamb or beef. Mainly from pure pulp and meat on the bone. This is to give the dish fat, density and satiety.
Tomatoes (tomatoes, juice or pasta), vegetables and tkemali sour fruit sauce are also added. What makes the soup rich and beautiful in color.
A lot of spices (hops-suneli, ground peppers and others), crushed garlic, bay leaf, walnuts and fresh herbs give the dish spice and piquancy.
Kharcho soup can be prepared at any time of the year, from a variety of meat (fatty or lean). And serve both warm and cold.
Kharcho in Georgian
According to historical information, a dish of Caucasian cuisine was originally designed to prepare it during an outing in nature, that is, in the wild: mountains, fresh air, clear water of the sea or lake, fresh meat, bonfire.
A whole piece of lamb meat is placed in a metal container, drinking water is added and the broth is cooked until cooked on fire. Then added rice, potatoes, sauteed onions, tomato, sauce, herbs, spices.
When serving, the meat is divided into portions. And kharcho is added to them. Thus, it turns out a two-course dinner - the first and second - in one dish. Tasty, satisfying and fast.
Of course, at home it is impossible to repeat everything, but to cook the dish itself is quite real.
The article will consider different recipes for this soup - with chicken, beef, pork, cooked at home - in a miracle pan called a slow cooker.
Recipe number 1. Chicken Dish
Lean soup, which will please those who, for whatever reason, do not like fatty meat and, accordingly, dishes from it. Tender poultry gives softness, and spices - aroma and pungency.
And according to this recipe, kharcho soup in a slow cooker is very quickly prepared - only about 60 minutes.
Ingredients:
- chicken fillet - 0.5 kilograms;
- sweet pepper - 120 grams;
- carrots - 120 grams;
- onion - 120 grams;
- round-grain rice - 150 grams;
- potatoes - 300 grams;
- tomato - 50 milliliters;
- vegetable oil - 50 milliliters;
- salt - 15 grams;
- spices - 5 grams;
- fresh herbs - 20 grams;
- drinking water - 1.5 liters.
Cooking:
- Chop meat and vegetables in medium slices. Oil the multicooker bowl. Put chicken, carrots, peppers, onions. Add tomato sauce or pasta. Cook for 10 minutes in the “Baking” mode.
- Coarsely chop the potatoes and add to the bowl, pour out rice, salt, spices. Pour 1.5 liters of drinking water and cook soup in the appropriate program for 40 minutes.
- Add finely chopped greens at the end of the cooking process.
Recipe number 2. Kharcho with pork
An unusually satisfying and tasty soup made from pork pulp, tomato lecho and other ingredients. The dish will become a favorite dinner dish for the whole family and friends.
Ingredients:
- meat (pork shoulder) - 0.8 kg;
- potatoes - 200 grams;
- onions - 100 grams;
- garlic - 10 grams;
- carrots - 100 grams;
- round-grain rice - 200 grams;
- tomato lecho - 100 grams;
- vegetable oil - 20 milliliters;
- bay leaf - 5 pieces;
- sugar - 10 grams;
- salt - 15 grams;
- ground black pepper - 5 grams;
- fresh greens.
Cooking kharcho soup in a slow cooker (photo and sequence):
- Chopped prepared vegetables and meat in medium slices. Passer in vegetable oil alternately in the "Frying" mode onions, carrots, meat. To mix.
- Rinse the rice and add to the ingredients in the bowl.
- Then put tomato lecho, spices, sugar and salt, water. Cook in the "Stew" program.
- At the end of the cooking process, add chopped garlic and herbs.
The recipe is recommended for "Redmond" and "Panasonic" crock-pots.
Recipe number 3. Spicy
Spicy kharcho soup with beef - a dish that can be prepared not only in the field, but also in the home kitchen.
And thanks to the slow cooker, it turns out saturated and rich, because it has the ability to additionally languish over low heat under the lid.
Ingredients:
- beef - 0.5 kilograms;
- round-grain rice - 100 grams;
- carrots - 100 grams;
- onions - 100 grams;
- potatoes - 200 grams;
- vegetable oil - 20 milliliters;
- tomato juice - 100 milliliters;
- salt - 12 grams;
- bay leaf - 5 grams;
- paprika - 3 grams;
- ground black pepper - 4 grams.
Cooking:
- Sauté onion and carrots chopped into sticks in vegetable oil in a multicooker bowl (frying program).
- Add pieces of meat to vegetables, stew for 20 minutes (“Stewing” program).
- Pour tomato juice and fry until moisture evaporates.
- Put rice, potatoes, salt, spices, bay leaf with meat and vegetables, pour drinking water. Cook for 40 minutes (“Soup” program).
Recipe number 4. Thick dish
Thick kharcho soup in a slow cooker - with walnuts, spices, herbs and tkemali sauce. Cooking time - 2 hours.
Ingredients:
- beef fillet - 0.7 kilograms;
- round-grain rice - 200 grams;
- butter - 60 grams;
- hot chili pepper - 1 gram;
- garlic - 20 grams;
- Tkemali sauce - 120 milliliters;
- tomato paste - 100 milliliters;
- drinking water - 2 liters;
- onions - 200 grams;
- walnuts - 100 grams;
- salt - 15 grams;
- fresh herbs - 50 grams.
Cooking:
- Chop the peeled onion rings, cook in butter in a bowl for 5 minutes (in the "Frying" mode).
- Add tomato paste, mix and put the mixture in a separate container.
- Chop the meat into small pieces, pour into a bowl, pour with drinking water and cook the broth for 90 minutes (in the “Soup” program).
- Add rice, cook for 15 minutes ("Stew").
- At the end of the soup preparation process, pour onion with tomato, spices, garlic, chili pepper, nuts, salt. Strain for 20 minutes ("Warming up").
- Before serving, generously decorate the kharcho soup in the multicooker with greens.
Recipe number 5. Kharcho with lamb
Real soup - with lamb, cilantro and tkemali sauce - will delight true connoisseurs of spicy dishes of Caucasian cuisine.
To prepare aromatic kharcho soup in a multicooker according to the recipe, the following components are necessary:
- lamb - 0.5 kilograms;
- tomatoes - 300 grams;
- round-grain rice - 100 grams;
- onions - 200 grams;
- bay leaf - 2 grams;
- garlic - 10 grams;
- cilantro - 5 grams;
- spice "zira" - 5 grams;
- Tkemali sauce - 130 milliliters;
- drinking water - 2 liters;
- vegetable oil - 30 milliliters;
- ground black pepper - 4 grams;
- salt - 15 grams;
- fresh herbs - 20 grams.
Cooking:
- To prepare a broth from mutton meat chopped with medium pieces - in a slow cooker (program “Soup”).
- After 1.5 hours add the whole onion, ground black pepper and bay leaf. Cook another 10 minutes.
- Sauté onion in vegetable oil, add tomatoes and prepared meat.
- Put everything in the broth and add rice. Cook for 20 minutes (program “Soup”).
- At the end of the kharcho process add tkemali sauce, garlic, spices, salt, cilantro and herbs.
Summary
When this Georgian dish began to be prepared in European countries, including on the territory of the Russian Federation, the hostesses added their own zest, additional ingredients to it.
Thus, kharcho soup has become international, even more piquant, rich, and therefore a favorite dish for many nations.