Simple recipes for hodgepodge without cucumber

Today we will talk about hodgepodge. Yes, not quite simple, familiar to many housewives - but without one of the ingredients. Solyanka without cucumbers, according to some connoisseurs of culinary art, also has its right to exist. The reasons for not introducing into the composition of this important component - delicious salinity - there may be several. For example, intolerance of pickled cucumbers to allergy sufferers. Or a unique authentic recipe. In general, be that as it may, the recipe for hodgepodge without cucumber - to your attention in various variations!

A bit about this dish

It is known that the hodgepodge in the understanding of home cooks throughout the post-Soviet space is one of the varieties of soups. Its main, fundamental feature is the density and a fair amount of ingredients (in some recipes it reaches 20). In addition, this dish is very high in calories. Since the composition includes all kinds of sausages and fatty meat (sometimes - lard with streaks). They give calories and other components that are fried in vegetable oil (or even pork lard). Therefore, those who are going to lose weight or are watching their own figure with might and main, this dish will not like it. Well, we’ll try one of the options for hodgepodge without cucumbers.

The simplest recipe

We will need a couple of lemons, a jar of seedless olives, a bag of tomato paste (50-80 grams), a set of smoked meat for making hodgepodge, a clove of garlic, two potatoes, spices - those that you like (a set for meat dishes is quite suitable). For dressing the soup we will use sour cream, it is better to take not too greasy - 15 percent.

Regarding the set of sausages: if the finished one is missing - do it yourself. For this we take 150 grams of smoked sausages, the same amount of good boiled (for example, "Doctor"), 100 grams of dried sausage. You can optionally use smoked chicken wings, other flavorful smoked meats. By the way, lemons and olives will give the salinity acid in our hodgepodge without cucumbers, so don't worry about this point.

Cooking is easy!

Follow these instructions and your dish will turn out to be appetizing and nutritious.

1. Smoked meats and cooked sausage are cut into small cubes.
2. Express the olives from the liquid from the jar and cut into circles.
3. Boil potatoes in their skins until half ready. Then peel and cut - also into cubes.
4. Heat the water in a three-liter saucepan to a boil and introduce all the ingredients prepared above.
5. Squeeze the garlic and stir with tomato paste and a little water. Add coarsely chopped lemon and spices with salt (according to personal preferences). Mix and add to the total mass in the pan. Bring to a boil, a couple of minutes - and turn off the fire. Long cooking is not necessary - the sausage can fall apart.
6. Let the dish brew and pour the hodgepodge without cucumbers into portioned containers.

Flavored with sour cream, sprinkle with chopped herbs. We serve to the table.

Solyanka: recipe with sausage without cucumbers

Another recipe for this delicious and satisfying dish is also not very difficult. For a five-liter capacity, you need to take: meat pork ribs and veal - 300 grams each, bacon, smoked sausages and salami - each ingredient 100-150 grams, a couple of medium-sized lemons, a couple of onions, a jar of seedless black olives, 100 grams of capers (pickled buds of prickly shrub Capparis), 100 grams of tomato paste (mashed potatoes), spices and salt. For refueling, we will use non-greasy sour cream. And for decoration - greens (cilantro is required, as well as parsley and dill).

Simple cooking!

There is another recipe for hodgepodge, which is prepared as follows:

1. Rinse and cut into pieces the raw meat ingredients. Put in a pot of water and bring to a boil. Remove the wand and cook for about half an hour.
2. Lemons are cut in half rings along with the peel. Olives - rings. We chop the onion (it is also possible with thin half rings - for symmetry).
3. We cut sausages into small cubes.
4. All prepared ingredients are introduced into a pan with broth and cooked meat.
5. Fry the onion in vegetable oil. Add tomato paste and capers there. Stew for about 5 minutes, stirring with a wooden spatula.
6. The resulting sauce is poured into the total mass. Stirring, cook another 5-10 minutes on the smallest fire. Salt pepper. Let us brew for half an hour.

Before serving, pour in portions and season with sour cream. Sprinkle with chopped aromatic fresh herbs for decoration.