Solyanka is a delicious and original dish thateach housewife prepares in own way the prescription. There are a lot of cooking technologies for this food. Someone considers a solyanka the first dish, someone prefers to see it as a second, and someone eats it as a side dish. But no matter how the hodgepodge is cooked, it always turns out to be tasty and useful.
What is called a hodgepodge?
По сути, изначально солянкой считали что-то the average between schaki and rassolnikom. But over time interpretations of the dish became more and more, and despite the fact that the main ingredient of the saltwort always remains unchanged is cabbage (fresh or sour).
Below we will look at several recipes for fresh cabbage hodgepodge, which are most popular among residents of Russian cities.
First recipe: with meat
The dish is similar to the classic meat soups, only with the addition of cabbage. Vegetable gives it individuality and especially interesting flavor notes.
For the preparation we need:
- beef (pork) - 500 g;
- smoked sausage - 200 g;
- sausages - 3 pcs .;
- bulb;
- fresh cabbage - 500 g;
- sauerkraut - 300 g;
- tomato paste - 4 tbsp. l .;
- spice.
We start cooking.
- Grind the peeled onions and fry it in vegetable oil until golden brown.
- Sausages and sausage cut into strips and add to the onion, fry for another eight minutes.
- The meat is cut into small cubes, put in a saucepan, add onions, seasonings and simmer for another five minutes.
- Add pickle from sauerkraut, add to meat, season with tomato paste (half the norm), stew for twenty minutes.
- Fresh shred cabbage, put in a pot of meat, add the remaining tomato. All products are mixed, pour in water and weed until cooked.
- Serve sprinkled with herbs.
Fresh cabbage solyanka with meat is especially popular with the male. The dish turns out very tasty, fragrant and satisfying.
Second recipe: with mushrooms
An interesting taste in solyanka is obtained by adding mushrooms to it. Fresh champignons are best for this.
Products:
- cabbage - half a kilo;
- mushrooms - 0.3 kg;
- chicken meat - 0.8 kg;
- onions - ½ pcs .;
- potatoes - a couple of pieces;
- carrot - ½ pcs .;
- hot pepper - 20 g;
- tomato - 50 g;
- garlic;
- olives - 5 pcs .;
- greens of dill.
How to cook a hodgepodge of fresh cabbage and mushrooms for this recipe? The algorithm is as follows.
- Meat washed, put in boiling water and boil until done. Then filter the broth, and chop the chicken into portions.
- Wash potatoes, peel, cut into cubes and cook in broth for ten minutes.
- Chopped onion and grated carrots fry.
- Mushrooms cut into slices, add to carrots, cook for about three more minutes.
- Add to the mixture chopped fresh cabbage and tomato. We simmer, stirring for a few minutes and remove from heat.
- Add vegetables, salt, spices to the broth with potatoes and cook until cabbage is soft.
- Add meat to the hodgepodge, crushed greens with garlic and boil for a couple more minutes.
- When serving, add circles olives.
The third recipe: with sausages
Fresh cabbage solyanka with sausages is a budget version of a dish that is served as a side dish. At the end of cooking such a hodgepodge liquid in the pot should not remain.
Composition:
- cabbage - forks;
- sausages - 5 pcs .;
- two carrots;
- onion - 2 pieces;
- Tomato - 2 tbsp. l .;
- condiments;
- greenery.
Stages of preparation
- Chop cabbage into thin strips.
- Wash carrots, peel, rub on a coarse grater.
- We peel husks from onions, chop them finely.
- Sausages cut into circles.
- Pour vegetable oil into a skillet and fry sausages in it until golden brown appears.
- Add onions to sausages, after five minutes add carrots, salt, pepper, sprinkle with spices.
- Add cabbage, tomato paste, laurel leaf and fry for three minutes.
- Pour 200 ml of water and simmer under the lid for forty minutes.
Sprinkle the prepared dish with chopped dill and parsley.
The fourth recipe: with canned fish
Cooking fresh soup of cabbage with fishcanned food will be a good alternative to meat solyanka during fasting. Also, the dish is great for fans of fish soups and for those who like to diversify the daily diet.
Products:
- fish in tomato;
- cabbage - 300 g;
- mushrooms (champignons) - 300 g;
- gherkins - 2 pcs .;
- potatoes - 3 pcs .;
- onions - 1/2 pcs .;
- tomato - 1 spoon;
- half a lemon;
- greenery;
- olives.
Cooking technology is as follows.
- Peeled potatoes cut into strips.
- Mushrooms are washed and cut into plates.
- Cabbage finely shred.
- Grind carrots on a grater.
- Chop onion finely.
- We give cucumbers a thin straw.
- Onions with mushrooms stew for 5 minutes, add carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers and simmer a little more time.
- Add cabbage to mushrooms and pour in half a glass of water.
- Put sliced potatoes in a pot of boiling water, bring to a boil.
- Add to the mixture fry, salt, pepper, cook until cabbage.
- Open a can of canned food and lay out its contents along with the sauce in the soup. Add chopped greens, circles of olives, bring to a boil and turn off the fire.
- Give the hodgepodge to brew for about half an hour, pour into plates, decorate with a slice of lemon.
The fifth recipe: in a slow cooker
According to the following recipe cookingSolyanka of fresh cabbage occurs in a slow cooker. This kitchen appliance has long been indispensable in the kitchen of modern hostesses. Solyanka, cooked in it, it turns out very fragrant and useful.
Products you need:
- cabbage - 1 kg;
- onions - 200 g;
- Bulgarian pepper - 200 g;
- bacon - 250 g;
- ham - 250 g;
- tomato - 2 pcs .;
- 3 pickled pickles;
- a pair of garlic cloves;
- lemon - 1/3;
- dill.
We start cooking.
- Cut ham and bacon into small cubes.
- Fresh cabbage for solyanka cut into strips.
- Peppers, onions and cucumbers cut into cubes.
- Garlic and greens finely chop.
- Cut tomatoes and chop in a blender.
- Pour vegetable oil into the bowl of the device and cook onion with pepper in the “Frying” mode for 2-3 minutes.
- Add the meat and fry for about 7 minutes.
- Add to roasting cabbage, cucumbers, spices. We mix and transfer to the mode of "Quenching".
- Pour tomato mixture into the bowl, pour in some sugar, mix and leave to prepare for 40 minutes.
- After the time, add the chopped greens and lemon juice to the dish. Simmer another 60 minutes.
Final Recipe: Liver and Kidney
Fresh cabbage solyanka with offal has an interesting but specific taste. This recipe is made by those who love by-products and appreciate their benefits. We will need:
- beef kidneys - 300 g;
- liver - 200 g;
- beef - 300 g;
- sausages - 3 pcs .;
- smoked sausage - 200 g;
- cabbage - 0.3 kg;
- onion - half head;
- carrot - ½ pcs .;
- pickled cucumbers - 2 pieces;
- tomato paste - 3 tbsp. l .;
- olives - 10 pcs .;
- lemon - slices;
- baking soda.
Cooking like that.
- We remove fat from kidneys, we cut them into pieces and we fall asleep with soda. We clean in the fridge for a day.
- Wash the kidneys, pour with cold water, bring to a boil, wash. Repeat the procedure two more times. After boil the kidneys for half an hour.
- Boil the meat until tender, filter the broth, cut the beef in portions.
- Liver clear of films, boil, chop.
- Carrots cleaned, three.
- Onions clean, chop.
- Fry vegetables in vegetable oil, add salted cucumber cubes and tomato, fry them further.
- Put boiled cabbage into boiling broth, add zazharka after 10 minutes, after boiling we place all meat components, spices, salt and bring to a boil.
- Pour the sliced olives into slices and let the soup infuse.
Served with lemon, sour cream, herbs and black bread.
Secrets of cooking fresh cabbage solyanka
Solyanka is a Russian dish that is prettywas often on the royal table. Currently, it is present in the menu of almost every restaurant. So that the taste of the hodgepodge was perfect, we will reveal to you a few secrets of its preparation:
- after cooking, the dish must be brewed for at least fifteen minutes;
- when using fresh cabbage after cutting it must be well wrinkled with hands until the juice appears;
- pickles with fresh cabbage can be replaced by marinated zucchini in the process of cooking solyanka;
- for cooking, besides the pan, you can use a cauldron, a stewpan, and even a frying pan with a high rim;
- For a more saturated color, you can add a pinch of turmeric to the soup.