Probably everyone heard about the hodgepodge, a delicious and hearty thick soup. But have you tried to prepare such a fragrant and nutritious dish? Choose from a selection of any homemade hodgepodge recipe.
It is usually cooked on a steep broth and it does not matter what it is: mushroom, meat or fish. The main thing is to be rich. Due to the density of the hodgepodge, it is often considered the second, and not the first dish. This is an original Russian dish. Cabbage is also sometimes called hodgepodge, which is stewed with fillers - pieces of meat, sausages, ribs and other ingredients.
What was the homemade hodgepodge recipe in the old days? The peasants who were left from the previous meal were mixed in one cast iron or pot and cooked. So the hodgepodge was born. Time passed, and this dish became popular among other segments of the population of Russia. He was not averse to serving even in restaurants and at dinner parties.
Now, in the classic recipe for this dish, four types of meat products must be present: different sausages, boiled and fried meat, sausages, as well as pickled or pickled cucumbers and pickled mushrooms. The composition of the hodgepodge still includes olives, carrots, tomato paste, onions, olives. It is served with sour cream and lemon. Before preparing such a dish, you should collect all of the listed ingredients.
The homemade recipe is simple and complex at the same time. In order for it to turn out as it should, nutritious and slightly sharp, there should be many components, and the more of them, the better. It can be capers, and butter, and greens, and all kinds of spices.
Well, now we are taken to the dish "Solyanka home." Recipe for meat broth. Cook the meat. It can be a brisket, ribs, tenderloin (pork, beef - whatever you want). When you set to cook meat, you should pour the amount of liquid that you need for the hodgepodge. It is not recommended to add water, so as not to spoil the true taste of this dish. After boiling the meat, be sure to remove it from the broth and cool. Sausages (smoked), ham, cold meat cut into cubes.
At this time, potatoes in the form of slices are cooked in the broth. Add the meat slices to it , and then the pickles. Homemade hodgepodge recipe requires that they be crispy, and also peeled. They are cut into strips and half-cooked in a broth.
We peel the onion and wash it thoroughly in water. After drying, shred, mix with butter and send to the pan. We pass without seasoning and tomato paste until the onions are soft. In another pan, fry the tomato paste with fat until it changes color to orange-red. We mix the contents of two frying pans in one and pour into the pan, where the hodgepodge boils. After 6-8 minutes, we add chopped herbs and olives (or olives) there and cook until tender. After turning off the stove, let the soup brew for five minutes and pour on the plates. In each of them we put sour cream with a thin slice of lemon. In the same way, fish and mushroom hodgepodge is prepared , only instead of meat there are the corresponding ingredients.
Well, now let's take the recipe for pickled cabbage hodgepodge. This is not soup, but a full-fledged second course. To prepare it, take a kilogram of sour cabbage, rinse it in three waters (cold) and squeeze it. In a frying pan, fry half rings of one large onion on 2 to 3 tablespoons of oil, attach sauerkraut to them and fry, while adding mushroom broth to the flavor. To soften the cabbage, it will take an hour and a half to cook it. After this time, we put 450 g of ham and 350 g of fried pork, 100 g of sausage and any meat (cold, boiled) to it. In total, add 600 g of meat products to cabbage. It remains only to salt to taste and pepper, and season with spices. Stew for another 30 minutes. Then we add flour frying to sauerkraut, mix everything and continue to keep on low heat for another 12 minutes. After this time, transfer the hodgepodge to the stewpan and send it to the oven for 30 minutes. Everything, home-made sauerkraut hodgepodge can be placed on plates and served.
Having learned how to make a hodgepodge, soon you will surprise your family with its new options. Enjoy your appetite!