To date, there are several dozen different recipes for hodgepodge. It can be meat, fish, vegetable. But the main essence of this dish is a hash of products. And our ancestors prepared the hodgepodge together: someone carried meat, someone - fish, someone - vegetables. And in this way a tasty and very satisfying dish was obtained. Until now, experts have been arguing among themselves: to which dish do the hodgepodge belong - to the first or to the second? After all, a real hodgepodge is very thick and satisfying. Therefore, it can very easily become both the first and second course.
So how to cook a hodgepodge at home? First you need to decide which recipe you will use. And this can be done very simply: look at the products available in your refrigerator and feel free to get to work.
So, let's answer the question: how to cook a hodgepodge? In fact, the correct answer to it does not exist. No matter how you cook it, it will still turn out to be right.
For example, in order to prepare meat solyanka, you will need meat (preferably pulp), meat bones, boiled ham, kidneys. In addition, onions, pickles, capers, olives, olives, lemon are added to this dish. To fill such a hodgepodge with tomato paste and sour cream. And for fish hodgepodge, instead of meat products, you need to put three types of fish and trim the meat from the head of a pig or cow. Our ancestors preferred it to be sterlet, zander, sturgeon or beluga. The remaining ingredients are placed the same as in the hodgepodge fish.
And how to cook a hodgepodge without meat or fish products? This will require mushrooms, for example. Instead of meat or fish, you can take three types of mushrooms - dried, fresh and pickled. Experts say that dried and fresh mushrooms can be taken as you like, but pickled ones should be mushrooms. All other components of the dish - onions, pickles, olives, capers, olives, lemon, herbs and sour cream - remain unchanged. Do not just add tomato paste to the mushroom hodgepodge .
Well, how to cook a hodgepodge if there are no mushrooms, no meat, no fish? And to such a complex question, there is a fairly simple answer. In the absence of the above products, you can cook a hodgepodge with brown bread. To do this, you need more than half a kilogram of sauerkraut, four onions, vegetable oil, brown bread, bay leaf, salt, pepper to taste, flour and herbs. Sauerkraut together with finely chopped onions should be fried in a pan with sunflower oil. After the cabbage reaches readiness, it must be sprinkled with flour and mix very carefully. Add any vegetable stock, bay leaf, pepper and put in the oven for twenty minutes. At this time, cut the brown bread into small pieces, salt it and fry in a pan. Serve the hodgepodge with fried bread.
And how to cook a hodgepodge, for example, from seafood? Any specialist will say that this is very easy. You can cook it with squid, but for this you need to take one more kind of fish. You can cook it with shrimp, scallops and even with sea kale. No wonder this dish is called hodgepodge. It is really possible to add everything that is in the house to it. And how to cook hodgepodge from cabbage? And there is an answer to this question. You can cook a cabbage soup with mushrooms. To do this, you need one kilogram of cabbage, one carrot, one onion, two hundred grams of mushrooms, tomato paste, greens, salt, pepper to taste. Here's how to cook cabbage hodgepodge.
After reading these recipes, you can once again make sure that hodgepodge is a dish that fully matches its name. You yourself can compose a recipe for hodgepodge and share it with everyone. And at the same time, you can be completely sure that your recipe will be very tasty and satisfying. And you can teach others how to cook a hodgepodge.