Pickle with pickles - general cooking principles
As you know, very often culinary recipes can be found in the literature. Rassolnik is no exception. Nikolay Vasilyevich Gogol wrote about him in his work “Dead Souls”, though it was ... a pie. The recipe for Gogol's pickle cake is very interesting - chicken, egg, buckwheat, cucumber and pickle. However, the brine soup was also loved by the Slavs, but under the name "kalya", and it was often cooked from fish based on kvass or pickle.
Pickle with pickles pleasantly diversifies your diet. You can cook it with any ingredients, make it nourishing and fat, or lean and low-calorie.
Pickle with pickles - preparing food and dishes
In pickle decided to add cereal. This may be rice, buckwheat, pearl barley. Pearl barley is not very convenient because the soup to cook with it for a long time, because for pickle, the most popular component is rice. However, there is a little trick, how to save time on cooking soup with barley - you just need to fry it before cooking.
In addition to cereals, vegetables are added to the soup — potatoes and onions and carrots. You can also safely put mushrooms, tomatoes, peppers, olives. All these ingredients will make the flavor of the soup fragrant.
Marinated cucumber should be added to the soup for 5-7 minutes until cooked. Do I need a cucumber pickle, if put cucumber? You decide, because such an additive will make the dish more sour and sharp.
Cooking begins with cooking basics. Meat is washed, cleaned of films and cut into pieces. Then it is filled with water and brought to a boil (immediately remove the noise from the surface of the water - if this is not done, then the broth will turn cloudy).
Do not forget about zazharku. You must first fry the chopped onion, and then add grated carrots to it. Fried vegetables are added to the soup 10 minutes before being cooked.
Recipes pickle with pickles:
Recipe 1: Pickle with pickles
Prepare pickle with pickled cucumbers on the basis of beef broth. This dish is most often imagined by housewives when they hear the word “pickle” - thick, tasty and nourishing. For soup it is best to choose the soft part of the pork, for example, the neck. Other parts are fatter and sinewy.
Ingredients Required:
- Buckwheat - 3 tablespoons
- 2-3 potatoes
- Pork (neck part) - 340 gr.
- Marinated cucumber - 2 pieces
- Carrot
- Brine - ½ cup
- Fresh cucumber
- Bulb onion
Cooking method:
- Prepare a base for pickle.
- Cut potatoes, rinse the buckwheat. Dip these ingredients in a saucepan, add bay leaf and spices.
- Fry carrots and onions in vegetable oil. Add the vegetable mixture to the soup 10 minutes after the potatoes.
- With the cucumbers remove the skin, slice and dip into the pan. Add brine along with the cucumbers.
- The soup will be cooked for another 3-5 minutes, then turn off the fire. Let the prepared dish stand over. 10 minutes with the lid closed will suffice, but the longer the dish is infused, the more delicious it will turn out.
Recipe 2: Pickle with Pickles and Rice
Rice is the most common ingredient for pickle. This cereal makes the dish nourishing and rich. You can take as usual white rice (better long grain), and a mixture with wild brown. Consider that brown rice is boiled for a long time, so it is better to boil it beforehand.
Ingredients Required:
- Potatoes - 4 pieces
- Rice - 75 gr.
- Carrots - 1 piece
- Beef - 320 gr.
- Pickled cucumbers - 2 pieces
- Onions - 1 head
- Sunflower oil - 2 tbsp. spoons
- Spice
- Fresh greens
Cooking method:
- Prepare for pickle basis. Beef need to boil for at least 35 minutes.
- Chop the potatoes and place them in a saucepan with the rice groats.
- Fry the onions and carrots in butter over medium heat. Cut the cucumbers, after clearing them from the skin.
- Add cucumbers and fried vegetables to the pickle 10 minutes after the rice. Cook the soup on low heat for another 7-8 minutes.
- Chop the greens. Dip it in the pan for a couple of minutes until done.
Recipe 3: Pickle with pickles and olives
We offer you to try a delicious dietary soup with olives and tomato. This pickle will turn out to be quite unusual in taste.
Ingredients Required:
- White rice - 30 gr.
- Brown rice - 35 gr.
- Carrot
- A tomato
- Vegetable oil for roasting vegetables
- Onion
- Marinated cucumber - 2 pieces
- Cucumber pickle - 1 cup
- Green olives without stones - 100 gr.
Cooking method:
- Boil brown rice. To do this, fill the grits with cold water in a ratio of 1: 2 and cook for 20 minutes.
- In the pan, where the pickle will stew, put the white and brown rice.
- Grated carrots and onions add to the pan without frying.
- Rinse the tomato with boiling water, peel, cut into cubes. Add 5 minutes after the vegetables.
- Cut the pickled cucumbers and olives. Add them 7-8 minutes after the tomato is placed in the pan. Pour in the pickle.
- Boil the soup for about 2-3 minutes, then turn off the heat. Let the soup stand for 10 minutes under the lid closed.
Recipe 4: Pickled Pickle with Barley Pickles
Rassolnik can be cooked with any cereal, including barley. However, remember: barley boils twice as long as any other cereal.
Ingredients Required:
- Potato - 1 piece
- Pearl barley - 5 tbsp. spoons
- Cucumber pickle - 250 ml
- Beef - 360 gr.
- Pickled cucumber
- Carrot
- Sunflower oil - 1 tbsp. spoon
- Bow
Cooking method:
- Rinse the pearl barley in hot water and dry with paper towels. Heat the pan, grease and fry the grits to a golden hue.
- Cut the meat into chunks. Put it to boil. When the water boils, remove the foam and salt, add the bay leaf and pearl barley. Cook for about half an hour.
- Cut potatoes into cubes. Add to the soup.
- Prepare a fry, add to the pan. Boil the soup for another 10 minutes.
- Cut the pickled cucumber and add it to the soup along with the pickle. Boil the soup for another 3 minutes, then remove from heat and let it stand under a closed lid.
Recipe 5: Pickle with pickles on mushroom broth
Rassolnik can be cooked in any broth, including mushroom.
Ingredients Required:
- Grech - 3 tbsp. spoons
- Potatoes
- Fresh mushrooms of any kind - 350 gr.
- Pickled cucumbers - 2 pieces
- Vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. spoon
- Carrot
- Spice
- Onion - 1 piece
Cooking method:
- Prepare the broth. For this you need to thoroughly wash the mushrooms, chop them finely and put them to boil. When the water boils, reduce the heat and salt.
- Cut potatoes, wash them with buckwheat. Add to the soup 10 minutes after boiling. Fry the onions and carrots. Add the vegetables to the pickle 5 minutes after the potatoes. The soup will be ready in 10 minutes.
- Cucumbers need to be peeled and cut. Dip them in the pan for 3 minutes until cooked.
Pickle with pickles - secrets and tips from the best chefs
- Pickled cucumbers should be added to the soup at the very end of cooking. If you put them earlier, the potatoes will be harsh.
- Make pickle cucumbers soft, you can scald them with boiling water before adding to the soup.
- You cooked soup, but its taste does not seem very rich and bright? In a separate container, bring the cucumber pickle to a boil and pour it into the pickle.
- Should I pickle pickle? According to the “classic” recipe, you do not need to add salt to the soup, pickled cucumbers and pickle are enough.
- Do not forget the greens. You can use both fresh parsley and dill, and dried.
- You can experiment and instead of pickled cucumbers add capers or pickled mushrooms to the soup.
