Preparation of fresh cabbage solyanka: recipe with photo

Solyanka is a delicious and original dish that every housewife cooks in her own recipe. There are many technologies for preparing this dish. Someone considers a hodgepodge as the first dish, someone prefers to see it as a second, and someone eats it as a side dish. But no matter how the hodgepodge is prepared, it always turns out tasty and healthy.

What is called hodgepodge?

In fact, initially something was considered a hodgepodge between cabbage soup and pickle. But over time, interpretations of the dish became more and more, and despite the fact that the main ingredient of the hodgepodge always remains unchanged - it is cabbage (fresh or pickled).

Below we will consider several recipes for fresh cabbage hodgepodge, which are most popular among residents of Russian cities.

First recipe: with meat

The dish looks like a classic prefabricated meat hodgepodge, only with the addition of cabbage. The vegetable gives it individuality and especially interesting taste notes.

For cooking, we need:

• beef (pork) - 500 g;
• smoked sausage - 200 g;
• sausages - 3 pcs.;
• bulb;
• fresh cabbage - 500 g;
• sauerkraut - 300 g;
• tomato paste - 4 tbsp. l .;
• spice.

We start cooking.

1. Grind the peeled onion and fry it in vegetable oil until golden brown.
2. Sausages and sausage cut into strips and add to the onion, fry for another eight minutes.
3. Cut the meat into small cubes, place in a pan, add onions, seasonings and simmer for another five minutes.
4. With pickled cabbage, drain the brine, add to the meat, season with tomato paste (half the norm), simmer for about twenty minutes.
5. Shred fresh cabbage, put in a pan with meat, add the remaining tomato. We mix all the products, pour in the water and simmer until tender.
6. Serve sprinkled with herbs.

Fresh cabbage with meat is especially popular with male representatives. The dish turns out very tasty, fragrant and satisfying.

The second recipe: with mushrooms

An interesting taste of hodgepodge is obtained if mushrooms are added to it. Fresh champignons are best suited for this.

Products:

• cabbage - half a kilogram;
• mushrooms - 0.3 kg;
• chicken meat - 0.8 kg;
• onions - ½ pcs.;
• potatoes - a couple of pieces;
• carrots - ½ pcs.;
• hot pepper - 20 g;
• tomato - 50 g;
• garlic;
• olives - 5 pcs.;
• dill greens.

How to cook a hodgepodge of fresh cabbage and mushrooms according to this recipe? The algorithm is as follows.

1. We wash the meat, place in boiling water and boil until cooked. Then we filter the broth, and grind the chicken into portions.
2. We wash the potatoes, peel, cut into cubes and cook in the broth for ten minutes.
3. Fry chopped onions and grated carrots.
4. Cut the mushrooms into slices, add to the carrots, cook for about three more minutes.
5. Add chopped fresh cabbage and tomato to the mixture. Stew, stirring, for several minutes and remove from heat.
6. In the broth with potatoes add vegetables, salt, spices and cook until soft cabbage.
7. Add meat, crushed greens with garlic to the solyanka and boil for another couple of minutes.
8. When serving, add circles of olives.

Third recipe: with sausages

Fresh cabbage solyanka with sausages is a budget option of the dish, which is served as a side dish. At the end of the preparation of such a hodgepodge, liquid should not remain in the dishes.

Structure:

• cabbage - forks;
• sausages - 5 pcs.;
• two carrots;
• onion - 2 pcs.;
• tomato - 2 tbsp. l .;
• seasonings;
• greens.

Cooking steps

1. Shred the cabbage into thin strips.
2. Wash the carrots, peel, rub on a coarse grater.
3. We peel the husk from the onion, finely chop it.
4. Sausages cut into circles.
5. Pour vegetable oil into the stew-pan and fry sausages in it until golden brown.
6. Add onions to sausages, after five minutes we add carrots, salt, pepper, sprinkle with seasonings.
7. Add cabbage, tomato paste, a leaf of lavrushka and fry for three minutes.
8. Pour 200 ml of water and simmer under the lid for forty minutes.

Sprinkle the finished dish with chopped greens of dill and parsley.

Fourth recipe: with canned fish

Cooking fresh cabbage with fish canned food will be a good alternative to meat hodgepodge during fasting. Also, the dish is perfect for fans of fish soups and for those who like to diversify their daily diet.

Products:

• fish in tomato;
• cabbage - 300 g;
• mushrooms (champignons) - 300 g;
• gherkins - 2 pcs.;
• potatoes - 3 pcs.;
• onion - 1/2 pcs.;
• tomato - 1 spoon;
• half a lemon;
• greens;
• black olives.

The cooking technology is as follows.

1. Peel potatoes cut into strips.
2. Wash the mushrooms and cut into plates.
3. Finely chop the cabbage.
4. Grind carrots on a grater.
5. Finely chop the onion.
6. We give the cucumbers the shape of a thin straw.
7. We stew onions with mushrooms for 5 minutes, add carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers and simmer a little more time.
8. Add cabbage to the mushrooms and pour half a glass of water.
9. We put chopped potatoes in a pot of boiling water, bring to a boil.
10. Add frying to the mixture, salt, pepper, cook until cabbage is ready.
11. Open a can of canned food and spread its contents with the sauce in the soup. Add finely chopped greens, olives, bring to a boil and turn off the heat.
12. Let the hodgepodge infuse for about half an hour, pour into plates, decorate with a slice of lemon.

Fifth recipe: in a slow cooker

According to the recipe below, cooking hodgepodge from fresh cabbage takes place in a slow cooker. This kitchen appliance has long been indispensable in the kitchen of modern housewives. The solyanka prepared in it is very aromatic and healthy.

Products that you will need:

• cabbage - 1 kg;
• onions - 200 g;
• bell pepper - 200 g;
• bacon - 250 g;
• ham - 250 g;
• tomato - 2 pcs.;
• pickled cucumber - 3 pcs.;
• a pair of garlic cloves;
• lemon - 1/3 pcs.;
• dill.

We start cooking.

1. We cut ham and bacon into a small cube.
2. Fresh cabbage for hodgepodge cut into strips.
3. Cut pepper, onion and cucumbers into cubes.
4. Finely chop the garlic and herbs.
5. We chop and chop the tomatoes in a blender.
6. Pour vegetable oil into the bowl of the device and cook onion with pepper for 2-3 minutes in the "Frying" mode.
7. Add meat and fry for about 7 minutes.
8. Add cabbage, cucumbers, spices to the roasting. Mix and put into the "Extinguishing" mode.
9. Pour the tomato mixture into the bowl, pour a little sugar, mix and leave to cook for 40 minutes.
10. After time, add finely chopped greens and lemon juice to the dish. Stew for another 60 minutes.

Final recipe: with liver and kidney

Fresh cabbage solyanka with offal has an interesting, but specific taste. According to this recipe, the dish is prepared by those who love offal and appreciate their benefits. We will need:

• beef kidneys - 300 g;
• liver - 200 g;
• beef - 300 g;
• sausages - 3 pcs.;
• smoked sausage - 200 g;
• cabbage - 0.3 kg;
• onion - half a head;
• carrots - ½ pcs.;
• pickles - 2 pcs.;
• tomato paste - 3 tbsp. l .;
• olives - 10 pcs.;
• lemon - slices;
• baking soda.

Cooking like this.

1. We remove fat from the kidneys, cut them into pieces and fill them with soda. We clean in the refrigerator for a day.
2. We wash the kidneys, fill with cold water, bring to a boil, rinse. Repeat the procedure two more times. After boiling the kidneys for half an hour.
3. Boil the meat until cooked, filter the broth, cut the beef in portions.
4. We clear the liver of the films, boil, cut.
5. Peel the carrots, three.
6. Peel and chop the onion.
7. Fry the vegetables in vegetable oil, add the cubes of pickles and tomato, fry further.
8. In a boiling broth we place chopped cabbage, after 10 minutes we add frying, after boiling we place all the meat components, spices, salt and bring to a boil.
9. Pour the olives into slices and let the soup brew.

Serve with lemon, sour cream, herbs and brown bread.

Secrets of making fresh cabbage hodgepodge

Solyanka is a Russian dish, which quite often was on the royal table. Currently, it is present on the menu of almost every restaurant. To taste the hodgepodge was perfect, we will reveal to you several secrets of its preparation:

• after cooking, the dish must be infused for at least fifteen minutes;
• when using fresh cabbage after slicing it, you need to mash it well with your hands until the juice appears;
• pickles in the process of preparing a hodgepodge with fresh cabbage can be replaced with pickled zucchini;
• for cooking, in addition to the pot, you can use a cauldron, stewpan and even a frying pan with a high side;
• for a richer color, add a pinch of turmeric to the soup.