Peasant soup: recipe for cooking

A tasty and satisfying first course, which, moreover, is prepared very quickly and simply, is peasant soup. Its recipe is given in the article.

A bit about the history of the dish

peasant soup

The history of such a first dish as peasant soup, the recipe of which will be discussed later, originates in hoary antiquity. Peasants, who always had a lot of work, prepared simple and hearty food: cereals, cabbage soup, pies, grouts. Mistresses also often cooked vegetable soups on the water (meat bazaars, broths were considered holiday dishes), seasoned with oil or sour cream for taste. That is why any soup with vegetables on the water can be called "peasant".

It is known that the landowners were very fond of such a soup, but for them it was cooked on chicken broth.

Ingredients

peasant soup recipe as in kindergarten

Learn how to cook peasant soup. The recipe is very simple, even an inexperienced cook can cope with the preparation.

For the classic version, you need the following ingredients:

  • water - three liters;
  • potatoes - five to six medium-sized tubers;
  • large carrots - one piece;
  • large onions - one piece;
  • cabbage - half a small head;
  • greens (dill, parsley) - to taste;
  • seasonings (salt, black pepper) to taste.

For dressing, butter and sour cream, based on one tablespoon per serving. Added to each plate when serving.

As you can see, all products are inexpensive and are sold in every store or market.

Cooking (classic way)

recipe for peasant soup with millet

How to cook peasant soup? The recipe is very simple. First of all, you need to peel vegetables and cut into large cubes carrots, onions and cabbage, and potatoes into small cubes.

Boil water, salt it to taste. Pour potatoes into the pan first, add carrots and onions in ten minutes, and cabbage in ten minutes. After boiling the soup over low heat for about fifteen to twenty minutes (until all vegetables are fully cooked). After pouring the soup on plates, adding finely chopped greens and a tablespoon of fresh sour cream (or butter) to each serving, season the soup with ground allspice if desired.

As you can see, on average, such a first dish is cooked for thirty-five minutes; it does not require skill or special knowledge among the hostesses.

Recipe Options

Above, we examined the simplest recipe for peasant soup, so to speak, its classic version. Now we learn how the mistress can change it to please her loved ones with a delicious first course.

Possible cooking options:

  • On the broth. Such a soup will be even tastier and more satisfying if you cook it on chicken, beef or pork broth;
  • With groats. A more satisfying dish will be obtained if cereal is added during its preparation. The recipe for peasant soup with millet or pearl barley is the most common version of this peasant dish. At the same time, millet is put in boiling salted water at the very beginning, cooked until tender (about twenty minutes), only after that vegetables are added to the pan. Barley is boiled separately until cooked (over low heat from one and a half to two hours) and the finished barley is added to the pan while cooking the soup. Peasant soup with cereals (every housewife will like the recipe) can be prepared using rice, buckwheat, oatmeal, wheat or barley groats, even peas and beans. The first dish in each version will turn out delicious;
  • With tomatoes and green peas. If ten minutes before the end of cooking, add to the pan slices of fresh tomatoes and canned green peas at the rate of three to four tomatoes and 3-4 tablespoons of peas per three liters of water, you will get a very delicious peasant soup. The recipe "as in kindergarten", according to the technological map, just involves the use of tomatoes and canned (or fresh) green peas.
  • With sautรฉed vegetables. In this embodiment, vegetables - onions and carrots - are pre-passerized in butter or vegetable oil and only then added to the pan.
  • With grout. A very interesting option for cooking the first dish. To prepare the grout, shake one egg with two tablespoons of water, pour everything into a bowl, add a glass of flour, mix everything well and knead it with a fork or grind it with your hands (this grout is prepared in such a "manual" way!). After the mass, sift off the excess flour. Add to the broth at the end of cooking, stirring vigorously, let it boil for about five minutes. The hostess should remember that flour products swell in water, therefore it is recommended that not all grout be used, its remains can be stored in a bag in a freezer.

Reviews

peasant soup with cereal recipe

Peasant soup is a very tasty and satisfying dish, and at the same time it is cooked ridiculously simply and quickly. It does not require any special ingredients. All its components are publicly available and inexpensive. This is exactly what the housewives say about this first dish, noting that his recipe must be recorded in the home cookbook.

Everyone who has tried this soup at least once will definitely want it to become a permanent item on their menu.


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