Solyanka with pearl barley and pickles

Beloved by many people, meat hodgepodge is a fairly simple dish to prepare.

In fact, the main ingredients are lemon, pickles, olives. And the rest is all that is in the refrigerator and is suitable for soup. Experiments are more relevant here than ever.

This article discusses recipes for hodgepodge with pearl barley and pickles, as well as other components. And a few secrets of cooking.

Special dish

It is believed that the classic recipe for hodgepodge does not contain any cereals. And if you add pearl barley and pickles, then it will already be a real pickle.

But hodgepodge implies the use of a creative approach to cooking, especially since you can add to your soup what you have at home (including the main components): sausages, ham, olives remaining after the holidays.

And cereals (in this case pearl barley) and potatoes are added in order to add density to this first dish.

Classic recipe

The composition of the hodgepodge prepared by this method includes 5 types of meat ingredients: beef, chicken, ham, smoked sausages, sausages.

Cooking sequence and components:

1. Pearl barley (80 grams) pour water (cold or hot) and set aside for 8 hours, then boil in salted water until tender.
2. Cook the meat broth (which will make up the liquid phase of the soup) from 300 grams of beef - 60-90 minutes.
3. Add chicken meat (any) - 400 grams, cook for 60 minutes, add salt.
4. To give a piquant taste, put bay leaf and peppercorns.
5. Chop onions (100 grams) and carrots (100 grams), pass in vegetable oil (20 milliliters) until transparent.
6. Cut the ham, sausages and sausages (all 150-200 grams each) in medium pieces, add to the onions and carrots, mix, cook until golden brown.
7. Remove the meat from the broth and chop into cubes.
8. Prepare potatoes (100 grams), chop finely and pour into the broth, meat, frying and pearl barley also put in the soup, cook until the vegetable is soft.
9. Chop pickled cucumbers (250 grams), sauté in vegetable oil, add tomato juice and spices, pour into soup.
10. Black pitted olives (100 grams) and chop the half of the lemon in medium slices, add to the dish.
11. When serving, you can add fresh herbs, spices, sour cream.

Capers and Chicken Hearts Recipe

Combined hodgepodge with pearl barley and pickles is especially piquant if you add capers and small chicken hearts to it. Cooking time - 2 hours.

Description of the process and components:

1. Boil pearl barley (100 grams).
2. Prepare the broth (after laying bay leaves, peppercorns, celery, carrots, onions, salt) from beef and pork on the bone, as well as chicken meat (350 grams of each ingredient), then put the meat on a plate to cool.
3. Boil the hearts (300 grams) and also lay out.
4. Remove all excess from meat - bones, fat, films.
5. Cut everything into cubes, hearts into halves.
6. Strain the broth (2 liters), pour into a clean bowl for soup, boil.
7. Put meat, hearts, pearl barley.
8. Chop 300 grams of onion and 100 grams of carrots, pass in vegetable oil (30 milliliters).
9. Cut the loin, smoked sausages and bacon (100 grams each) in strips and add to the vegetables, fry until golden brown.
10. Dilute tomato paste (100 milliliters) with drinking water and pour into a pan, mix, simmer.
11. Chop pickles (120 grams) with straws or cubes and put to frying, simmer under a closed lid for another 5 minutes.
12. Pour the contents of the pan into the soup, mix.
13. Capers (100 grams) and black olives chopped in circles (50 grams) are added to the dish.
14. Chop a lemon (50 grams) with half rings, add to the hodgepodge.
15. Salt, pepper, put fresh chopped parsley and dill.

Potatoes are not always part of the recipe for hodgepodge. As a rule, it is added if the dish is not thick enough.

Beef tongue solyanka

You can also diversify a delicious and satisfying first course by adding a meat ingredient in the form of a fresh beef tongue.

Preparation of hodgepodge with pearl barley and pickled cucumbers:

1. Cut beef meat (250 grams) and tongue (150 grams) into medium sized pieces, put into a bowl and pour water.
2. When the ingredient is ready, lay out and cut into cubes, strain the broth.
3. Boil 120 grams of pearl barley until half cooked.
4. Peel the onion, chop and sauté in vegetable oil.
5. Chop pickles (150 g) and add to the onion.
6. Dilute the tomato paste (50 milliliters) with drinking water and pour into a pan, mix.
7. Boil the broth, put pieces of meat, cereal (slightly boiled) and cubes of potatoes (150 g).
8. Chop 100 g of ham and pour into soup.
9. Add the frying to the dish, mix.
10. Cut olives and lemon into medium slices and pour into a hodgepodge at the very end of cooking.
11. Add salt, black pepper, fresh herbs.

Before serving, you can add sour cream.

Meat hodgepodge in a slow cooker with mushrooms

A simple recipe, despite the abundance of ingredients, will help to quickly and tasty feed a large family. In order to spend a minimum amount of time on cooking hodgepodge with pearl barley, pickles, mushrooms and meat, you can boil some ingredients in advance (chicken, beef, pearl barley).

Process description:

1. In the “Frying” program, pass 100 g chopped carrots and onions (15 minutes) in vegetable oil (40 milliliters).
2. Chop the potatoes (150 g) with medium slices and put in vegetables, mix.
3. Soak barley in water in advance (60 g), add to vegetables.
4. Chop the boiled chicken meat (1 kilogram), beef (200 g), sausages (200 g) into pieces, put in the bowl to the remaining components.
5. Pickled (or pickled) cucumbers in an amount of 200 g chop into strips and also add to the dish.
6. Put canned mushrooms (300 g) and seedless olives (100 g) in a bowl.
7. Dilute tomato paste (50 milliliters) and pour into a dish.
8. Boil the meat broth (2 liters) and pour the ingredients in the bowl.
9. Pour salt, sugar (5 g), ground black pepper.
10. Stew the dish in the program for 30 minutes, at the end of the process put fresh chopped greens and bay leaf, set aside for another 20 minutes.

Before serving, garnish a hodgepodge with barley, pickles and mushrooms with a slice of lemon and a spoon of sour cream.

Light hodgepodge with fish

This dish can be prepared not only from meat and sausages, but also with the addition of seafood and fish.

Description of the process and components:

1. Pour 60 g of pearl barley with water for 8-10 hours, then boil (25 minutes).
2. Pour 2 liters of water into a container and bring to a boil.
3. Prepare 150 g of potatoes, chop into medium pieces, pour into boiled water.
4. Fillet of different varieties of fresh fish (500 g) cut into strips and add to potatoes, cook until tender.
5. Pass in chopped onion (150 g) and carrots (100 g) in vegetable oil (30 milliliters).
6. Chop finely pickled cucumbers (150 g) and add to the roasting.
   
7. Pour 200 milliliters of tomato juice, boil and pour into soup.
8. Add barley, salt, ground pepper mixture.
9. Remove the brine from the pitted olives (100 g), cut into rings, pour into soup.
10. Put a bay leaf.

Before serving, add a slice of lemon and chopped herbs.

Cooking secrets

In order to prepare a high-class hodgepodge, you can apply some of the following culinary secrets:

1. Solyanka will be tasty in its own way if you cook it on mushroom, meat or fish broth.
2. Pickled cucumbers, capers, olives, green onions give a special piquancy to the dish.
3. If you add fresh herbs and sour cream to the soup before serving, the taste will become more fresh and rich.
4. For meat hodgepodge, usual (beef, pork, chicken) or smoked meat, sausage (including one that is no longer suitable for eating raw) is suitable. You can put everything together.
5. Instead of tomato paste, you can add tomato juice when preparing a breeze or a workpiece (onion, tomato, broth, sugar, cucumbers).
6. Be sure to season with spices - bay leaf, black pepper (or peas), a mixture of peppers.
7. Cucumbers are recommended to use barrel, but not pickled.
8. It is better to cut the ingredients in small cubes or straws, then they will fit perfectly in a tablespoon, which will also beneficially affect the taste.

Summary

The article describes several recipes for hodgepodge with pearl barley and cucumbers. Each of them is simple and tasty in its own way. This will be a great opportunity to please loved ones with a hearty and original dinner.