Most Caucasian dishes, having moved beyond their homeland, have undergone many changes, both in the cooking scheme and in their composition. Especially it affected the multi-component dishes, like soup kharcho, which every housewife cooks in its own way. In this material, we will try to understand the recipes closest to the original.
Recipe of soup kharcho at home
Let's start with the Mangrelian kharcho, a dish that is cooked on the basis of veal with an abundance of cilantro, saffron and nuts. Ready soup is extremely saturated and will certainly be appreciated by all the fans of Georgian cuisine.
Ingredients:
- veal - 980 g;
- cilantro 95 g;
- garlic teeth - 4 pcs .;
- saffron imeretinsky - 15 g;
- walnuts - 85 g;
- hazelnut - 35 g;
- onion - 135 g;
- hot pepper - to taste.
Preparation
Cooking hurcho, like any other first course, begins with broth. For such a rich dish as harcho, the broth should be quite fat, so take veal with fat, cut into large cubes and pour water (about one and a half liters). Leave the meat to boil for a couple of hours, while removing the foam from time to time. Take a ladle of hot broth and pour saffron on them for 10 minutes, then strain the solution and pour into a saucepan. Nuts twist with a meat grinder and combine the resulting paste with chopped garlic teeth, hot pepper and chopped cilantro. Season the soup with a delicious nutty paste and pour over the plates immediately - the jar is served very hot.
Rice soup kharcho at home
Ingredients:
- beef - 540 g;
- rice - 65 g;
- onion - 115 g;
- walnuts - 45 g;
- garlic teeth - 4 pcs .;
- tkemali - 35 ml;
- tomato paste - 15 g;
- hot pepper - to taste;
- handful of green coriander;
- handful of leaves of purple basil.
Preparation
Cut one of the bulbs in half and send to the pan along with large pieces of beef - this is the basis of our broth, which should be filled with cold water (a couple of liters will be enough) and put on fire for an hour and a half.
While the broth is on fire, we prepare the roast from the remaining onion. When the pieces catch a blush, we put garlic, tkemali and tomato paste on them. Dilute everything with a ladle of broth.
Pass the nuts through the meat grinder along with the greens and the preferred amount of hot pepper.
In the broth, add the rice and boil it for about 10 minutes. Mix the soup with the roast and nut paste, after which immediately remove the pan from the fire. Soup kharcho, cooked at home on this recipe should be served only after he has infused for another 10 minutes.
How to cook soup kharcho at home?
Ingredients:
- beef - 570 g;
- rice - 115 g;
- walnuts - 75 g;
- onion - 410 g;
- carrots - 370 g;
- garlic teeth - 5-6 pieces;
- a handful of green parsley and cilantro;
- pomegranate juice , tkemali - to taste;
- coriander - 1/2 tsp;
- hops-suneli - 1 teaspoon.
Preparation
Large pieces of beef fill in 2 liters of water and place on fire for a couple of hours. Do not forget to clean