Let us recall today sauerkraut hodgepodge with meat. Do you cook her for lunch? This first dish is unique. It is appropriate on the table in the heat and in the cold. Hot or cold hodgepodge must appear in a series of soups offered for your beloved family. Such home dinners bring together and fill the house with coziness.
Solyanka - the secret of an old Russian dish
Many are not familiar with this dish. The reason is the banal lack of time. You need to devote a decent amount of time to cooking pickled cabbage with meat. This dish has one secret. If you cook it one day, then after a while you will need to repeat the action: someone from the house will definitely ask for a delicious saltwater for lunch.
As for the name of pickled cabbage soup with meat, disputes have not subsided to this day. Most foodies tend to dwell on the next version of the origin of the name. "Selyanka" - originally it was customary to call this very thick soup. Later, due to the many fermented and salty components, the dish acquired the name "Solyanka". Where the name came from is not really that important. It is much more necessary to learn how to cook it and get in your own culinary collection the best recipes for pickled cabbage hodgepodge with meat and other, equally tasty ingredients.
Classics of Russian cuisine
There are recipes passing from century to century. In the process, they are complemented by some ingredients, but remain true to tradition. This category includes recipe for pickled cabbage with meat and potatoes.
Components for cooking:
- Meat on the bone (pork, lamb or veal) - half a kilogram. It is advisable to take a smoked product variation.
- Potatoes - 3-6 pieces.
- Sauerkraut - 2-3 cups. The exact amount depends on the desired density of the soup.
- Onions - 1 piece.
- Carrots - 1 large root crop.
- Tomato paste - 2-3 tablespoons.
- Garlic to taste.
- Salt to taste.
- Various greens - optional.
What kind of dishes do you need?
To implement the recipe for pickled sauerkraut with meat and potatoes, it is better to use a pan with thick walls and a bottom. So we will be able to get as close as possible to the taste that was obtained with soup-hodgepodge in the old days, in cast iron steamed in a Russian stove. You can replace a similar pan with a very deep saucepan, dividing the number of components into two. But if such dishes were not found in your kitchen, we will cook in what is.
Cooking process
How to cook pickled cabbage with meat and potatoes?
We send the meat to the pan and, pouring water (3 liters), cook smoked meat for at least 3 hours. While aromatic broth is being welded, we will prepare other components.
We rinse and peel the potato, removing all inclusions (eyes). Cut into medium cubes or cubes. Wash the carrots and free them from the peel. Grind as you like. In earlier times, it was customary to cut into strips. Today you can use a coarse grater. Peel and chop the onion as we please.
In a frying pan, heat lean fat, fry the onions until golden. Then we send the grated carrots to it. The temperature of the plate is reduced. We’ll cover the lid and steam the vegetables for two minutes. During this time, the carrot will soften slightly. Open the lid, add the tomato and mix. We introduce cabbage. Fry vegetables for a few minutes until the carrots are a nice color. Take a certain amount of broth from the pan, continue to stew vegetables on this broth under the lid for 10 minutes.
Finish cooking
We take out the meat from the pan. We cool it and cut off the pulp, which we return to the pan. Add potatoes to the meat in the broth, cook until half-ready root.
Transfer the carrots and onions with cabbage from the pan. Salt everything in the pan. If the soup is too thick, add a little boiling water. Wait for the boil, crushing a few cloves of garlic directly into the pan. If desired, chop the greens and introduce at the very end of the preparation, before finally removing the hodgepodge from the stove. Sauerkraut solyanka with meat and potatoes is ready. Under the lid, let it brew for ten minutes, proceed to the tasting. It will be tastier if you serve this hot dish with sour cream.
Meat solyanka soup
The classic recipe for a more "rich" hodgepodge implies a wide range of smoked meat products. Both chicken and pork with beef are suitable.
General list of components and their required number:
- any smoked meat products - 800 grams;
- 3 medium sized pickled or pickled cucumbers;
- sauerkraut - 1-2 glasses;
- 1-2 medium onions;
- potatoes - 3-4 root crops;
- tomato juice - 250 milliliters;
- thick tomato paste - 2 tablespoons;
- lean, non-flavored oil - 50-60 milliliters;
- salt and other spices to taste;
- garlic and herbs - optional.
After all the ingredients for pickled cabbage with meat (team) are collected, we proceed to translate the formulation into reality.
Cucumbers for hodgepodge
Often, a recipe with cucumbers goes unnoticed. This is due to the fact that many do not really like their taste and large slices, adopted in the hodgepodge. Let's fix it and cook the cucumbers in a special way. First remove all the peel from them. Then grate the vegetables. Better to take a large one. You can cut the cucumbers with medium cubes, this also contributes to a change in their taste for the better.
We will begin to cook cucumbers separately. Fill them with water and boil to the necessary condition: they should crunch a little. Salt, of course, is not necessary. From the ready we drain the water and leave until the moment when we need them.
Smoked meat products
The rule of any hodgepodge: the more different types of smoked meats, the more unique the taste of the dish as a result. We remember this and remove even very small residues from the bins in order to introduce them into the soup-hodgepodge. We cut products into small bars or straws. Do not rub them on a grater!
Potatoes
Usually it was not customary to add potatoes to the hodgepodge. But over time, without this vegetable, the dish ceased to be perceived as a full-fledged one. In this soup, the potato does not interfere, on the contrary, makes it more satisfying and softer. We clean the washed root crops and cut it not very large. Until the potato comes in handy, let it be in cold clear water. This will save the potatoes from darkening.
Cooking
The classic recipe for prefabricated meat soup-hodgepodge will help you cook it without any problems.
Almost all products are ready to become a hearty, thick soup. Cooking hodgepodge:
- Pour potatoes with water and put on the stove. Cook, descaling, as is usually done for soup.
- In the meantime, we take out a frying pan with high sides. Pour all the vegetable oil into it. We clean the onion and chop as you like. Pour into hot oil, fry with stirring for 1 minute.
- Add to the onion all meat products, previously sliced. We continue the heat treatment at a moderate temperature for at least 3-4 minutes.
- We introduce cabbage to meat with onions, simmer the composition under the lid for another 2-3 minutes. You can add a little potato broth from the prepared base of hodgepodge.
- We spread the tomato paste and pour the tomato juice. It is precisely these 2 components that are needed: juice gives brightness to the taste of the dish, and tomato paste - brightness to its appearance. Mix the contents of the dishes and keep at a moderate temperature for at least 10 minutes. Try the salt and acid concentrate. If desired, it is not forbidden to introduce 1 \ 2 tablespoon of sugar. Ground pepper and other necessary spices can also be added here. Turn off the fire under the pan and cover with a lid.
- How is our potato? At the very end of its preparation, add a little bit of salt. We fill the pot with boiling potatoes with aromatic meat frying from the pan. Reduce the temperature of the plate to moderate. We spread boiled pickled cucumbers. We keep it for five minutes on such a fire so that the structure of the soup is not broken.
- Before the completion of cooking, add chopped garlic to the pan. It can be chopped finely or pressed through a special press. Greens, if implied its use, rinse with water and also chop. Send everything to the pan.
Thick soup is ready.
In a slow cooker
It’s not difficult to cook this thick soup in a slow cooker. A glass of cabbage needs to be washed to remove excess acid. Peel the onion and lightly fry with cabbage. Send potatoes, any smoked meat components, tomato paste (a third of a glass) to the multicooker bowl. Pour the contents of the bowl with hot water, 7-10 centimeters above the level of the products. Add bay leaf, salt. Set the "Extinguishing" mode. Once the program is complete, inject crushed garlic. Finely chop fresh herbs. Add it to the soup. Close the lid of the device for another five minutes, then serve a “quick” hodgepodge for dinner.