Kharcho soup is one of the most popular dishes of Soviet cooking. It was an obligatory attribute of food service points and elite restaurants. Soup was produced even in the form of convenience foods in bags. To prepare the first, you just had to throw the contents into boiling water and add potatoes. By the way, such fast-food dishes are found in supermarkets even now. Probably few people know that the famous Georgian cuisine soup belongs .
Ordinary Kharcho soup
What is a traditional
kharcho recipe? In Georgian, it is cooked without meat or on pre-cooked and strained lamb broth. Pieces of meat are put on a plate, then pour liquid contents. Soup is prepared like this: 3 large onions should be chopped and stewed in butter until golden. This should be done in a saucepan in which the dish will cook further. Then a liter and a half of boiling water or broth is added to it. Let the base boil. Further, the Georgian kharcho recipe involves the introduction of the main product - vermicelli or rice. If the soup is boiled with cereal, it is advisable to soak it in the evening so that it reaches readiness faster. 20 minutes after this, spices are presented in the dish - cilantro greens, parsley (finely chopped), garlic mashed in a mortar or minced garlic, hot pepper (ground or finely chopped chilli), special spices (suneli). The latter (they are called hops-suneli) are put in the case if you strictly follow the Georgian kharcho recipe. And, of course, the dish is salted to taste. And they put lavash divided into small slices, only sour. If there is none, you can replace it by putting 50-100 grams of tomato paste in a pan.
After 10-15 minutes after this, the pan can be removed from the heat. Let the soup stand under the lid for about five minutes, then you can pour it on the plates. Sprinkle with chopped herbs when serving. To prepare a dish, the Georgian Kharcho recipe requires the following ingredients: onion - 250-300 grams, oil - 45-50 grams, tomato - 50-100 grams, rice a little less than a glass or vermicelli - 1 glass. Other components to taste.
Kharcho with nuts
When you master the classic version, you can begin to study another, more original. How do you like Georgian nut-kharcho soup? Its recipe is a bit more complicated than the previous one, but also quite affordable. Ingredients: onion - 250 grams (several large or medium-sized heads), butter - 60-70 grams, peeled walnuts - 100-120 grams, tomatoes - 450-500 grams, cilantro - 3-4 sprigs, rice - 100 grams , garlic, herbs, spices, salt - all to taste.
At first, onions are cut and passivated in a pan. Only it must not be forgotten to interfere, so as not to burn. Crush nuts, garlic, cilantro, peppers, mix everything. Add hot water (broth), about 7-8 glasses. Stir again and pour into a pan with onions. Pour rice (or thin noodles, vermicelli), add salt and put on medium heat. Tomatoes are boiled over with boiling water, the skin is removed from them. The pulp must be finely chopped, mashed and mashed to a consistency. In general, Georgian cuisine makes wide use of tomatoes.
Kharcho soup recipes, whatever they may be, necessarily include this ingredient. So, you need to stew the tomato puree separately until the excess liquid has evaporated, and then put it in the soup. Let it boil, then add the parsley and cilantro and remove from the heat - the dish is ready. Try it - if there is not enough sharpness, add ground pepper, salt. You can serve sour cream and toasted bread to the soup.
Bon Appetit!