Rice soups are nutritious and healthy. You can cook them both on meat broth and on vegetable, season with tomato and sour cream. And also excellent milk soups, sweet, appetizing, are cooked from cereals.
Kharcho
Let's remember (and someone will know for the first time) the classic recipe for Kharcho rice
soup. This is a traditional dish of
Caucasian cuisine, it is prepared either from selected beef (brisket) or from lamb brisket. Rinse the meat, cut into small pieces, put in a pan, pour cold water and put on gas. Boil for 2 hours, remove the foam. The recipe for Kharcho rice soup, in addition to meat, includes such components: onion - 2 pieces, large; garlic - 3 cloves; tomato - 3-4 tablespoons or 4-5 large fresh tomatoes; rice - 100 grams (soak in advance); plums (sour) - 50 grams. When the meat ingredients are ready, it is necessary to add finely chopped onions to the pan, add rice, put crushed garlic and plums. Salt to taste. The recipe for Kharcho rice soup recommends hot pepper as a mandatory spice, and more. But the amount of it, ultimately, depends on your preferences. Everything is cooked for about half an hour on low heat. At the end, a tomato is added, which must be fried in a small amount of oil. If tomatoes are placed, the skin must be removed from them and pre-stewed. Tomato season 10 minutes before the time comes to remove the pan from the heat. Let a little dish infuse under the lid. When serving the recipe for rice soup, kharcho prescribes to put several pieces of meat in each plate and be sure to sprinkle with herbs - dill or parsley. You can offer sour cream.
Rice Soup with Meatballs
Such a soup is ideal for the general table, and as a dietary dish. For meatballs, take half a kilogram of ground beef and 250 grams of pork, mix. Add 1-2 cloves of crushed garlic, 1 onion chopped in a meat grinder, a little pepper, caraway seeds, dill. So that the meatballs do not boil, drive 2 eggs. Salt to taste. All must be thoroughly kneaded and, after wetting your hands in cold water (so that the meat is not sticky), form balls of the same size. Put them on a cutting board. Now about how to cook our
meatball rice
soup. The recipe is as follows. Soak a glass of rice in the evening. Cut five potatoes into slices or cubes, two carrots into slices, onions into half rings, asparagus beans into slices, chop two bell peppers into strips. If desired, put a couple of tomatoes, diced.
Soup is boiled
in meat broth, you need to pour it in one and a half liters. When it boils, pour rice and carrots. After 15-20 minutes - potatoes. Fry onion and pepper in vegetable oil. Throw the meatballs and after 15 minutes add the roasting, beans, salt, add bay leaf, allspice and hot pepper, other seasonings. Remove the finished soup from the heat, insist a little. Serve with herbs.
Rice with milk
And finally, milk rice soup. The recipe is also simple. You will need products based on each liter of liquid, 4 tablespoons of cereal, 1 tablespoon of butter and a teaspoon of sugar. Do not forget vanillin. And a little salt - it will tint the sweetness of the dish. Cooking is better in a cast iron - in an enameled pan, the croup can burn. Pour rice into boiled milk and cook, stirring constantly, until tender. Make the fire small. Add the remaining components at the end. Oil is placed separately in each plate. As additives, you can put sweet corn, prunes, raisins, etc. Or in a plate with a spoonful of jam.
Eat on health!