Rassolnik - one of the traditional and popular dishes of Russian cuisine, a soup filling type with an acid-brackish-spicy taste. The obligatory components of the pickle are salted cucumbers and pickled cucumber. Also in this soup can be present meat (often it's offal) or fish, cereals, greens. To taste, add spices, garlic, tomato paste, sometimes sour cream (when serving). Rassolnik is an excellent tool for minimizing the consequences of a hangover.
The recipe for the preparation of a classic pickle with pearl barley and beef kidneys
Ingredients:
- beef buds - 300 g (can be cooked from pork or lamb);
- pickled cucumbers - 3 pcs .;
- pickle cucumber - 80 ml;
- pig fat is overturned;
- carrots - 1 piece;
- onion - 1 pc .;
- potatoes - 3 pcs .;
- pearl barley - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- roots (parsley and celery);
- Spices (peppercorns, cloves, bay leaf, coriander, cumin);
- greens (dill, parsley);
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- tomato paste - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- sour cream for filing.
Preparation
We clean out the kidneys from films, remnants of blood vessels and fat from the inside and out, thoroughly rinsed. We cut the buds in small pieces, they should be soaked in cold water for the night (well, or at least 8 hours), during this time the water is changed 3-4 times. Pearl barley is also soaked, preferably in boiling water, before cooking it will have to be washed.
Cut the salted cucumbers along a criss-cross, remove the tips and seeds, then cut into small oblong pieces. Peeled onions and carrots finely chopped.
Strongly heat fat in the saucepan. Well washed with chopped kidneys, carrots and onions fry until lightly browned. Add cucumbers and pour in brine. Stew for another 15 minutes, stirring. We pour in water or broth (meat or mushroom, about 1.5 liters). We put in the saucepan the washed pearl rump and diced potatoes.
Cook for about 20 minutes after boiling (try the barley on the readiness). At the end of the process, add tomato paste. Let's brew under the lid for 15 minutes. We pour out the ready rassolnik into serving plates, season with black pepper, garlic and sour cream, sprinkle with chopped greens. Under the classic rassolnik well serve raw rye bread and a glass of pepper or other strong slides of tincture.
Delicious fast pickle with pearl barley and chicken - recipe
Ingredients:
- chicken fillet from the breast or from the hips - 400 g;
- pearl barley - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- potatoes - 3 pcs .;
- pickled cucumbers - 3 pieces;
- pickle cucumber - 100 ml;
- Spices for broth not ground;
- spices ground (pepper black and red burning);
- pumpkin - 150 g;
- onions - 1 pc .;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- greens (parsley, dill, coriander);
- chicken fat inverted.
Preparation
Pearl barley soaked in boiling water for 3 hours immediately before preparing the soup. We wash it several times and again soak it with boiling water (3-4 times).
We cut finely onions, meat - small pieces, pulp of pumpkin - straws, pickles - oblong slabs.
In a saucepan on chicken fat fry, stirring, onions with meat. All together fry another 5 minutes,
In the saucepan pour a liter of 1.5 water, lay small-sized sliced potatoes and washed pearl barley. Cook for about 10 minutes, add the pumpkin and pickled cucumbers. Cook another 8 minutes, give a few minutes to brew. We pour rassolnik into a portioned soup dish, sprinkle with chopped herbs, season with ground spices, garlic and sour cream.
Following the same recipe, you can prepare lean rassolnik with pearl barley, for this simply replace the chicken meat with champignons or white mushrooms in the recipe.