Recipes: how to cook soup

How to cook cabbage soup? Almost every Russian mistress owns her original recipe for this dish, because the cabbage soup is one of the most common national Russian dishes. It is not for nothing that the old Russian proverb says that the shchi never get bored. According to modern researchers, the word "shchi" came from the Old Russian "eat" (the collective name of any thick liquid foods). After some time cabbage brought from Byzantium entered the recipe of Russian dishes, and as a result, only cabbage soup became known as this word.

The main feature of this dish is a sour taste. As a rule, it is created by sauerkraut, but it can be achieved with fresh cabbage. In this case, ingredients such as sorrel, nettle or cabbage brine will be needed. Shchi, cooked only from vegetables, called empty. It is worth remembering the "daily" soup, which acquire their unique taste only the next day. But the variant using sorrel and nettle, is known as "green". Below we will consider the traditional recipe of Russian cabbage soup, prepared from fresh cabbage.

How to cook cabbage soup with cabbage soup

Required:

• 500 g of fresh cabbage;
• 700 g of beef or pork;
• 1 carrot;
• 2 tbsp. L. Tomato paste;
• 2 onions;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• vegetable oil;
• Salt, spices (parsley root, pepper, etc.) and greens.

Preparation:

1. Before boiling the soup, the pan should be filled with cold water, place the meat there and cook the broth for an hour , remembering to remove the foam with a noise. In some cases, the broth can be cooked the day before. After the broth is brewed, it must be filtered, salt and again put on fire.
2. While cooking broth, you can prepare vegetables: finely chop cabbage, cut onions, grate carrots. Then fry the onions with carrots, adding finely chopped garlic cloves at the end. Before removing the vegetables from the fire, they need to add tomato paste. The latter can be replaced with fresh tomato, but it should be put together with garlic.
3. Take the meat from the broth and cut into cubes. Then cut the potatoes and dip it into the broth. When the contents of the saucepan boil, add cabbage to it and cook for another 10 minutes. Then add the cabbage soup vegetables, fried with tomato and chopped boiled meat. Fill all with spices and herbs. After that, cook soup for another 5 minutes. Serve traditionally - with sour cream, greens and, of course, rye bread.

A few tips on how to cook sushi

Shchi can be cooked on meat as well as on mushroom or fish broth. You can also use decoctions of vegetables and cereals.

Before boiling cabbage soup from sauerkraut, the latter must be pressed from the brine.

When preparing cabbage soup, sauerkraut should be put in cold water, and fresh - only in boiling water.

If the cabbage is too sour, then its part should be replaced with fresh. At the same time, we must not forget that sauerkraut should be put at the beginning of cooking cabbage soup, and fresh - after the meat is boiled and boiled potatoes.

Shchi, which are prepared from fresh cabbage, you can cook without potatoes, but then the necessary ingredient will be refueling in the form of toasted flour.