Sauerkraut recipe. How to cook delicious cabbage soup

In the old days, every good housewife knew the recipe for sauerkraut. This simple dish was cooked, and then for some time it languished in a Russian oven. So cabbage soup acquired a special taste and richness. Traditional was the option of cooking cabbage soup on beef broth. Roots and fragrant herbs were added to the broth. Of course, it could not do without the most important element of this soup - sauerkraut. Now there are many different recipes for preparing this delicious first course. But in order to try them, you must first learn how to cook traditional cabbage soup. Already relying on these skills, the hostess will be able to learn how to cook a large assortment of this dish.

Traditional classic

The first recipe for today's culinary experiment will be sauerkraut cabbage soup. The recipe is classic, step by step.

Products that are needed to prepare delicious cabbage soup:

• Beef meat - 250-400 g (preferably on the ribs, so the broth will be more flavorful).
• Potatoes - 3 pieces.
• Sauerkraut - 250-300 grams.
• 1 large carrot.
• 1 medium onion.
• Tomato or ketchup - about 3 tbsp. spoons with the top.
• Lean refined cooking oil.
• Salt to taste.
• Pepper is also to your taste.
• Greens - according to your preference.
• A pan having a volume of about 3 liters (2.5 possible).

We translate into reality the recipe for sauerkraut

1. The first and foremost step is to wash and peel all the vegetables and prepare the meat.
2. Pour the ribs in the pan with cold water so that it covers the meat. Put to cook. When the ribs begin to boil, it is necessary to remove the formed foam. After this procedure, the cooking time for beef meat will be approximately one hour.
3. While the beef is cooked, we do not waste time in vain. We cut onions and three carrots on a grater. Then we pass these vegetables in vegetable oil. When they become soft and golden, add cabbage to them. Now fry all the ingredients for about three minutes.
4. It's time to introduce the tomato component into the vegetable mixture. Mix the sauce with vegetables.
5. Look in the pan and check for ribs. After the ribs are cooked, the potatoes are cut into cubes and sent to them to cook for 15 minutes. Add bay leaf at this point. It is better to add salt here.
6. Remove the foam again and introduce the sautéed vegetables into the cabbage soup.
7. Do not let boil soup. After laying the frying, it will be better to turn off the stove. Try the resulting cabbage soup to taste, they should have a pleasant acidity. If this is not, and the soup turned out to be fresh, add a little vinegar to taste. Attention! Do not confuse vinegar and vinegar essence! Essence is a concentrated product, unsafe for an inept user. If you have only the essence (70%), dilute it with water, usually the method and proportions are indicated on the label.
8. Now, when the dish is ready, you need to finely chop the greens, pour it into the pan and, after mixing, cover. After 15 minutes, you can start tasting.

Using this recipe, you can also cook delicious cabbage soup with pork and sauerkraut. Pork or ribs produce an amazingly delicious broth. A large number of people prefer pork.

Cooking cabbage soup in a slow cooker

By the way, you can cook cabbage soup with sauerkraut and in a slow cooker. This kitchen unit retains heat for a long time like a thermos. Therefore, cabbage soup from a slow cooker will be rich and well-infused.

Products:

• Meat (pork or beef) - 300 grams.
• The same amount of sauerkraut.
• One carrot and one onion.
• Potato - 3 large pieces.
• Refined vegetable oil. Spices and salt.

Cooking our cabbage soup

1. We cut the meat into medium slices and fry in warmed vegetable oil. We use the program for baking. The duration of the program is approximately half an hour.
2. With vegetables at this time, you need to carry out preparatory procedures. Peel and chop. The potato should turn into medium, the onion into small cubes, and just wipe the carrots through any grater.
3. We send the washed cabbage along with carrots and onions to the meat in a slow cooker. We continue to stew vegetables with meat, while the program is again turned on for baking.
4. Put the potato cubes in the bowl, fill everything with hot water. At this stage of cooking according to the recipe for sauerkraut, salt, pepper and bay leaf are added.
5. Now you need to close the lid and, having set the "Quenching", leave cabbage soup to languish for an hour and a half. After the long-awaited signal, you need to turn off the device and leave it without opening the lid for another 15 minutes. Sauerkraut cabbage soup in a slow cooker ready!

Chicken cabbage soup

The meat in this dish can be almost any. You can take fatter slices, or you can buy a soup set and cook cabbage soup from it. A lighter and no less tasty option for cooking this rich dish will turn out even with chicken. To verify this personally, we offer you this recipe for sauerkraut with chicken.

Product Set:

• Chicken meat - about 300 grams. Take any part of the bird that suits your preferences.
• Medium potatoes - 3 pieces.
• 1 onion.
• Carrots are one big thing.
• Cabbage (of course, sauerkraut) - about 300 grams.
• Salt, a set of favorite spices. A couple of bay leaves. A pair of garlic cloves - for a more piquant taste.

Step by step implementation of a recipe for sauerkraut with chicken:

1. First of all, we wash the poultry meat in cold water. We put it in a pan and, pouring clean water, set to cook. In the course of the whole action, it is necessary to remove the foam from the surface of the decoction, so that the broth turns out to be transparent and beautiful.
2. For an even more beautiful broth, it should be filtered after the chicken is ready. Strained gold broth is again poured into the pan to continue cooking cabbage soup. If desired, the meat can be separated from the bones and cut into pieces suitable for your requirements.
3. Now peeled and sliced ​​potatoes are placed in a pot with meat and broth. You need to cook the base for cabbage soup until semi-soft potato bars. Do not forget to salt!
4. While it is boiling, heat the pan. Add vegetable oil to it and throw onions and carrots there. Onions should first be cut into small pieces. Carrots, if desired, can be rubbed through a grater or chopped finely with a knife. Both options are good. At this point in the implementation of the sauerkraut recipe, add the garlic, crushed or finely chopped. Fry the vegetable composition until soft carrots.
5. And then the potatoes in the broth were cooked almost to the finished state. Now we transfer the sautéed vegetables to the pan and put the cabbage next.
6. We continue to cook our delicious soup for about three minutes. If you do not like crispy cabbage, then it’s permissible to cook cabbage soup to the full softness of this product.
7. Here you are ready for delicious aromatic cabbage soup! It remains to add lavrushka and ground pepper to the pan. Although pepper can be sprinkled on each eater in a serving plate according to its needs.

Options for lean soup

During fasting or according to personal preferences, you can also cook many different types of lean soup. Prepare such a slightly unusual dish with sunny millet groats and potatoes. Before preparing cabbage soup with sauerkraut with potatoes, make sure that you have all the necessary components of the future dish in stock:

• Sauerkraut in the amount of 300 grams.
• Half a glass of dry millet.
• Potato - 3 pieces.
• 1 onion and large carrots.
• A few cloves of garlic, a bay leaf and salt.
• 3 full tablespoons of tomato.
• About 4 tablespoons of vegetable oil.
• One of the important components for cabbage soup is water, it needs about three liters.

Step by step recipe for sauerkraut:

1. First, let’s do some wheat. It is necessary to sort out cereals with addiction and rinse well in several waters, then place in a bowl and pour boiling water.
2. Peel the potato and after washing cut into medium slices. Pour in water and let the base for the soup boil. Remove the foam and introduce the cereal into this boiling water with potatoes. Boil everything for twenty minutes over moderate heat.
3. When cooking these products, you need to take care of cabbage and remaining vegetables. Rinse and squeeze the cabbage. Grind vegetables and sauté in a skillet in refined vegetable oil.
4. To this also add washed cabbage. Cook vegetables in oil under a lid for about 10 minutes.
5. After this time, you can enter tomato paste. After a little extinguishing it with a mixture of vegetables, put the contents of the pan into the pan and add salt, as much as you need for a good taste, throw the lavrushka along with the salt.
6. Depending on the readiness of millet and potatoes, we cook soup for five to ten minutes. Now turn off the fire and introduce the chopped garlic and finely chopped herbs, which are available. We hold ready-made cabbage soup under the lid for a little time, and you can eat.

How to prepare barley for cabbage soup

Cabbage soup with pearl barley and sauerkraut are prepared on the same principle. True, pearl barley must be boiled in advance almost until ready. Previously, it should be washed and soaked for about 2 hours. When the barley is cooked, it is simply added to the boiling potatoes, and the rest of the actions are performed according to the recipe with millet.

Cabbage soup for mushroom pickers

Lovers of the "quiet hunt" and those who simply adore all mushroom dishes will really like the variant of these cabbage soup. The unique mushroom aroma and taste conquer the first time. This dish will undoubtedly become a favorite - lean cabbage soup with sauerkraut with mushrooms.

Product Composition:

• One of the main products is mushrooms. They need to take at least 300 grams. Although if there is a little more mushrooms in the dish, it will only benefit from this. Take mushrooms to your taste, but store mushrooms are great!
• The next and no less important product is sauerkraut. Also take 300 grams.
• About three liters of water.
• 2 potatoes.
• Larger carrots - 1 piece.
• Onion.
• Salt, like pepper, is to your liking.
• Sunflower oil, a large bay leaf and beloved greens in your family.

We start cooking lean cabbage soup with mushrooms

1. In pots, cut the potatoes into bars and pour water. Cook for 10-15 minutes after boiling.
2. Wash and cut the champignons. Add them to the half-finished potato. Now let the potatoes and mushrooms boil for another 15 minutes. Salt the prepared dish and put the bay leaf in the pan.
3. Along the way, we prepare other products in a pan. Finely chop the onion, and process the carrots on a grater of any fraction.
4. We pass the vegetables a little over a small fire. Do not forget to stir.
5. Now add cabbage to the sauté. Cook another 5-10 minutes under the lid.
6. When the mushrooms and potatoes have reached readiness, add the sauté from cabbage and other vegetables to the pan. We give the dish to sweat over a very small fire. Now you can add greens. Fragrant and incredibly tender dish is ready! We treat our family and guests, serving soup with sour cream.

A few words about mushrooms

Many people play it safe and cook mushrooms for a very long time. Therefore, if you wanted such mushroom cabbage soup, then the mushrooms collected in the forest must be subjected to thorough preliminary treatment: soaking, washing and boiling. Mushrooms that have already been cooked and past a lengthy heat treatment can simply be added to the pan along with sautéed vegetables.