Every housewife always has their own signature recipe for the first dish. Someone prefers borscht, someone likes cabbage sauerkraut, someone likes pasta soups. But one of the most popular dishes is pickle. This soup is prepared using pickles and pickle, hence the name. In addition, barley is most often used for cooking. But if you do not like it in the soup, then you can always cook pickle without pearl barley. We offer several options for this dish.
Pickle with rice
For the preparation of pickle , various types of meat are used: chicken, pork, beef, offal. The broth must be rich. Each hostess makes soups in different ways: someone stews vegetables separately from each other, someone throws all at once into the broth. But experts say that pickle without pearl barley requires a certain sequence of actions. Let's get it right.
Essential Ingredients:
- meat (of your choice, but preferably with a bone) - 500 grams;
- onions - one head;
- potatoes - 5-7 pieces;
- carrots - one thing;
- 3-4 cloves of garlic;
- half a glass of rice;
- several large pickles;
- cucumber pickle - one glass;
- salt, pepper and spices (to taste);
- parsley or dill greens.
Cooking broth and preparing the main ingredients
If possible, the broth for pickle is best prepared from several types of meat, but, of course, you can cook the pickle without meat with pearl barley or rice. Such a soup will be less rich, but also less fat, therefore, high-calorie. This option is suitable for those who monitor their weight or are on a strict diet.
In our recipe we will use meat. Cook the broth for an hour, periodically removing the resulting foam. For half an hour we just cook meat, and then in the broth you can add roots (carrots, celery, onions) and spices (salt, peppercorns).
After the broth is ready, it must be filtered and again poured into the pan. When it cools down, we take apart the meat, separate it from the bones and cut it into small pieces.
Now prepare the main ingredients. Carrots should be grated on a coarse grater, the same thing should be done with pickles. Chop onions smaller, greens - larger. Experienced housewives say that if you decide to cook pickle without pearl barley, it is better to add more potatoes to the dish. It will need to be cleaned and cut into large cubes.
Pickle assembly
Now proceed to the "assembly" of the soup. Add potatoes to the broth and cook for ten to fifteen minutes until it becomes soft. In the meantime, make a dressing for pickle. Fry carrots and onions in a small amount of vegetable oil. You can add one third of the grated cucumbers to the roasting.
After the potatoes are cooked, add washed rice to the pickle without pearl barley. Cook for another ten minutes. When the main ingredients are ready, you can add dressing to them. At the final stage of cooking, add the remaining cucumbers and pour a glass of cucumber pickle. Let the soup sweat over low heat for another couple of minutes, turn off the stove.
Rassolnik is recommended to be served hot, although in cold form this first dish is very tasty. When serving, add a little fresh herbs and chopped garlic to the plate.
Lean pickle without meat and pearl barley
If you decide to cook some kind of light soup, then we recommend preparing a pickle without pearl barley and meat. The cooking time will be reduced by an order of magnitude, because you don’t have to wait until the meat products are cooked.
Required Products:
- potatoes - 5-6 pieces;
- onions - one piece;
- carrots - one thing;
- garlic - a pair of cloves;
- a teaspoon of butter;
- brine - a glass;
- cabbage - half a small head of cabbage;
- pickled cucumbers - three to four pieces;
- cooking oil for frying - a couple of tablespoons;
- greens;
- salt, spices, bay leaf and pepper (optional, to taste).
Cooking process
Peel the potatoes and cut them into large cubes. Since we will not have meat, rice, pearl barley in the soup, the main ingredients should be noticeable. We put potatoes to cook. Do not forget to periodically remove the foam that has formed during cooking.
While the potatoes are boiling, we are preparing a standard dressing, as for any other soup. Grated on a coarse grater, mix the carrots in a pan with finely chopped onions, add a little vegetable oil and fry until the onions are transparent.
Pickled cucumbers should be cut into large cubes in the same way as potatoes. Pour the brine into a separate mug. When the potatoes are almost ready, add cabbage to the soup. Cook for another fifteen minutes. Then pour the dressing into it and pour a glass of cucumber pickle. At the final stage of cooking, add pickles to the pickle without pearl barley and meat .
In a separate bowl, mix the butter (soft melted) with chopped garlic and herbs. When all the ingredients are ready, turn off the heat under the pan, add the mixture of oil and garlic and cover with a lid. Let the pickle a little "reach."
Preparation "Rassolnik for the winter"
If you are a lover of pickles, and there is never enough time for cooking, then we advise you to pay attention to the following recipe. A pickle for the winter without pearl barley is a good find for any busy housewife. Soup preparation will significantly save time. Having done it once in the summer, then you will not know the hassle in the winter.
Ingredients:
- cucumbers - two kilograms;
- tomatoes - one and a half kilograms;
- one kilogram of carrots;
- 200 grams of onion;
- 300 grams of rice or barley (can be without cereals);
- one hundred grams of sugar;
- one hundred grams of coarse salt;
- two tablespoons of table vinegar (9%);
- 250 grams of vegetable oil.
Cooking process
All vegetables should be cut arbitrarily - some people like large cubes, some small cubes. It is better to grate the carrots. Put the prepared vegetables in a large wide pot. Take the dishes a little more, let there be a margin. So it will be easy to mix vegetables during cooking.
Add salt, pepper, vegetable oil to the workpiece. Cook vegetables for ten to twenty minutes, periodically mixing the ingredients. When they are almost ready, add two tablespoons of vinegar and cook for a couple more minutes.
If you decide to make a workpiece with rice or barley, then grits should be cooked separately. Add it should be on a par with vinegar, at the very end of cooking vegetables.
While preparing the workpiece, wash with soda and sterilize the jars. Mistresses are advised to use small cans (“at once”) with a capacity of 0.5 liters. We spread the vegetables in containers and roll up the lids with a key. We put it in a dark place, wrap it up and wait until it cools down. After that, it will be possible to put them in storage in the pantry or cellar.
In winter, you just have to cook the broth, boil the potatoes and add the preparation to the soup. Pickle without pearl barley ( you can see the recipe with a photo in our article) will be an excellent alternative to bored soup and borsch.
Few secrets
The taste of pickle will directly depend on the taste of the cucumbers that you use. If the cucumbers are too sour, then the soup will turn sour. If the cucumbers are very salty, then we recommend that you do not add brine at the end of cooking. Otherwise, the soup will turn out to be salted.
If you decide to cook a pickle without pearl barley, the recipe of which we described above, then try not to add the broth a little. Remember that later you will add pickles and the same salted pickle to the soup. Try the dish when it has already “reached”, when all the ingredients give their taste. Only in this case can you determine exactly whether it is salty or not.
Peel the cucumbers. Many children do not like pickle, not because of the taste of unusual pearl barley, but because of the hard taste of cucumber peel.
It is better not to chop the onion for the broth finely. Of course, the sieve will do the trick. But if you do not intend to filter the broth, and boiled onions in your family do not favor, then it is better to add it in whole or in half. Experienced housewives advise making several punctures in the onion so that it gives out more juice, but does not fall apart when cooking.