Universal hodgepodge. Recipe

Many beginning housewives are wondering how to make a hodgepodge. The recipe for this dish can be different for every chef, but the basic rules and ingredients are mandatory.

Solyanka has excellent taste properties. It can combine both the first and second course. It can be made thick or liquid.
First, I'll tell you how to prepare a soup of soup. We take about 200 grams of beef and boil it to make a good meat broth. Then boiled meat cut into cubes. Now we also cut about 100 grams of ham and the same amount of beef tongue.

100-120 grams of pearl barley is poured into a saucepan and poured into it about one liter of water. We put on fire and cook for 30 minutes, until it is half finished. Next, drain the water and set the groats aside.

Cut the two onions into small pieces and fry them a little in a pan. After this, add to the onions sliced cucumbers salted cucumbers. The proportion depends on your preferences. Also in the frying pan spread a little tomato paste and sliced tomatoes. All is well mixed and turn off the frying pan. We put a pot of broth on the fire and put the cut meat products there. Next, you need to clean about 2-3 tubers of potatoes, cut them into medium cubes and add to the pan. Cook for a while, lay out the fried vegetables with cucumbers and pearl barley. We cook our dish for about 15 minutes. That's what turned out to be a hodgepodge. The recipe for cooking always presupposes the presence of pickled cucumbers. This is one of the main ingredients of the dish. After you turn off the hodgepodge, let it brew. Give on the table, sprinkled with sliced greens. A plate of soup can also be decorated with a slice of lemon and olives.

If you are preparing a liquid hodgepodge, then make sure that the broth is rich. From its quality depends the taste of the whole dish.

And now we 'll prepare a hodge-podge with smoked ham. To do this, take a good piece of beef or lamb brisket and set it to cook. We cook for a long time, so that the meat gives away all its juice and aroma to the broth. Only in this case it will turn out a tasty hodgepodge. The recipe for cooking is different and the presence of spices. Therefore, throw a laurel leaf and a few peas of sweet-scented into the pan. You can add a few sticks of a carnation, but this is optional.

Now we prepare smoked meat. You need to take pork smoked ribs or pork with a bone. We cut it into pieces, so as to separate it by a rib. Next, take the smoked sausages and cut them in circles. Then proceed to cutting vegetables. Onions cut into small pieces, and carrots can be grated on a large grater. Cabbage shred, and the Bulgarian pepper cut into small strips. We take salted cucumbers and cut them into cubes.

Next, fry all the vegetables in a frying pan. We also add salted cucumbers and a little pickle. Stew for a while. Then spread to the vegetables about two tablespoons of tomato paste. All ingredients are stewed for about 5-10 minutes. Shortly before the end we add chopped garlic.

At this time we take the boiled meat out of the broth and cut it into slices. Add it back to the broth and put the same smoked. Cook for about 10-15 minutes. Then put the cut potatoes into a saucepan and after a while cabbage. When they are almost ready, we spread the fried vegetables. We cook for five minutes and turn it off. After this, add to the pan crushed half of the lemon and chopped olives. Here is a hodgepodge. The recipe can be supplemented with spices. I use pepper and hops-suneli. Solim is very careful, because in the dish there are salted cucumbers.

Now you know how to prepare a hodgepodge. The recipe can be changed by choosing seafood instead of meat. It all depends on your wishes and preferences.