Pickle is a soup with pickled or pickled cucumbers. There are several recipes for making pickle - this is a pickle recipe with mushrooms, meat or vegetarian pickle. Also, pickle recipe can be with pearl barley or rice. The most famous is the pickle Leningrad recipe which is very simple. Consider several cooking options for this dish.
- Pickle Leningrad recipe : for this you will need - 4 tablespoons of pearl barley or rice, 500 grams of meat with pits, 2 liters of water, 3 pieces of potatoes, 1 onion, 200 grams of pickles, 2 carrots, 2 tablespoons of margarine or butter, 2 bay leaves, 8 pieces of pepper peas, cucumber pickle, salt, sour cream, herbs, all to taste.
For the Leningrad pickle, it is better to take pearl barley, so it will be tastier. Pour water, salt and put on fire, when it boils - put the groats, after 10 minutes put the chopped potatoes. Croup must be properly prepared to avoid mucous broth and dark broth. To do this, grind it and rinse it, while changing the water several times. It will be better if the barley is cooked separately. If rice was chosen for the place of pearl barley, then rice should be cooked with potatoes. Then cut the cucumbers and fry them in oil or margarine. Grate the carrots, finely chop the onions, stew all this mass in a frying pan for about 10 minutes. When the potatoes are almost ready, put cucumbers and stewed vegetables in a pan. You also need to add peppercorns and bay leaf. After 10 minutes, turn off the gas, sprinkle with herbs and let it brew for several minutes. Pickle served with sour cream.
- The next soup pickle recipe is that it is cooked with mushrooms. For this you need - dried or frozen mushrooms, grams 50 - 100, pickles 2 pieces, one each carrot, onion and parsley. Potato - 2 pieces, 2 tablespoons of rice, one tablespoon of tomato paste, vegetable oil and flour. You can add 1 cup cucumber pickle. Add spices to taste. This pickle recipe is very popular with people who like mushrooms.
Cook the broth from the dried mushrooms and then strain it. Cut boiled mushrooms, and then fry in a pan with butter. Add chopped onion to the mushrooms and fry for several minutes. Cook potatoes and rice separately until fully cooked. In the broth put mushrooms with onions and finely chopped cucumbers. Add potato, rice, tomato paste and flour to the broth. Strain the cucumber pickle and pour it into the soup. Cook for a few minutes. Serve with sour cream.
- Another pickle recipe can be prepared from fish. For this you will need - 20 cups of cucumber pickle, 1 kg of small fish, half a cup of flour, 5 to 10 cucumbers, 5 pieces of black pepper, peas, sour cream, bay leaf and parsley.
Cook the broth of fish, spices and roots. As a fish, you can take a ruff or a gudgeon, but in general you can take any fish that the family likes in the fish pickle. It is necessary to properly boil the fish. Then strain it and pour cucumber pickle into the broth. When the water boils, it is necessary to put flour there. Before this, dilute the flour with cold water so that there are no lumps. Then dilute the ear and strain. Only then pour into the soup. Add half a glass of sour cream, chopped cucumbers and herbs. Bring everything to a boil and serve.
Some people do not add cucumber pickle to pickle. But cucumber pickle is able to give the soup sourness, it is similar to lemon juice. Pickle is a sour, but in moderation, soup with cucumbers. You can cook pickle with pearl barley and rice, and with buckwheat and barley. Who likes some cereals.