How to make pork kharcho soup? The traditional Georgian recipe is designed for the use of beef or lamb. Try experimenting with a variety of meat and make a dish with pork.
Classic Pork Kharcho Soup
If you use beef instead of pork, you can safely say that you have prepared a real traditional Georgian dish. So, special attention should be paid to seasonings that give the finished soup an incredible aroma and taste. To prepare the dish we will need: a small piece of pork weighing about 400-500 g, 0.5 cups of rice, onion, garlic, prunes, hot chili pepper, a couple of spoons of tomato puree, vegetable oil for frying, water, suneli hops, tkemali , salt and fresh cilantro.
How to Make Pork Kharcho Soup
Prepare the meat: rinse under cold water, then cut into small pieces and put in a pan with thick walls. Pour two glasses of water (it should cover the meat), cook over high heat for 5 minutes. Chop onion, garlic, cilantro. Mix everything with tomato paste and seasonings, add vegetable oil. Hold the mixture for 2 minutes at maximum heat and put in the meat. Send him tkemali, prunes, rice and pepper. Add the required amount of water (depending on how thick the soup you want to get), salt. Cook until cooked rice over high heat. Chop the greens, sprinkle it on the finished dish and serve.
Pork Kharcho Tomato Soup
For this recipe you need: a small piece of pork weighing 300-400 g, a head of onion, 0.5 cups of rice, a couple of large ripe tomatoes, garlic, salt, cilantro and spices (basil, allspice, hops-suneli, bay leaf). Put the washed meat in a pan and cook until cooked. Beef is usually cooked for 1.5 hours, and pork is enough to cook an hour. Salt the broth. After the meat is cooked, remove it from the pan, strain the liquid and separate the bones. Cut the onion, fry it in oil in a pan, transfer the chopped pieces of meat to the onion. Fry lightly. Add a few tablespoons of the broth to it and simmer for 10 minutes under the lid. While the meat is stewing, prepare the tomatoes. To begin with, you need to remove the skin from them: cut the tomato from above crosswise, pour over boiling water. Cut the tomatoes into pieces and add them to the meat and onion. Simmer a few more minutes. Bring the broth in the pan to a boil, then put the meat and vegetables in it. Let it boil. Rinse the rice and put in the soup. Reduce the fire, cook for about 5 minutes, and then put all the spices in the soup. Grind the garlic a few minutes before being cooked and season with pork kharcho soup. Leave the dish to brew a little, after which you can pour the soup on plates, sprinkle with herbs and enjoy its taste and aroma. Kharch traditionally serves pita bread.
Cooking Tips
Despite the fact that Georgian dishes have a sharp taste, you should use chili peppers very carefully . It should make the soup fragrant, and not give it spiciness. Cooking pork kharcho soup is almost no different from beef soup. In addition, you can add additional ingredients to the dish: bell pepper or finely chopped cherry plum. Pay attention to rice - it can be long-grained or round, but not steamed or crushed.