Soup kharcho: recipes for lovers of Georgian cuisine

What do you know about the soup kharcho? In addition, it is sharp enough, has a spicy taste, and that no cookbook for Georgian cuisine can not do without him? Perhaps you still need to know that everyone at least once in their lives to try to make this soup yourself! Try? Today we'll show you how to cook soup grub!

Classic kharcho soup made from beef (in the original translation, he is called "beef soup"), although it is now cook can afford to use themselves and other meats. But remember, if you start to argue and persuade that kharcho have to be, for example, lamb, you can safely raise a man to laugh! Beef and beef only! Other major components in the soup: rice, tomatoes, sour tkemali for and walnuts. Walnuts in Georgian cuisine is very loved and added to almost all dishes. Has not been without them and this soup.

In our dining area instead of the usual grub served a thick soup of tomato paste and meat broth. Oddly enough, this option soup is very tasty, but it is not grub, how can we not cool. Once you get into the real Georgian restaurant, you will immediately feel the difference. Prepared according to the rules kharcho soup has a unique taste and aroma, which was mentioned in the works of famous Russian writers.

If you decide to cook a real soup kharcho paying enough attention to the choice of beef. It should life of good quality, fresh, not frozen. Chefs say that the soup would be the best piece of beef with bone brain: he will make a good fat and fat content is good.

About spices in kharcho - there is again a lot of opinions. If you follow the classic recipes, the grub is impossible without coriander. Besides mandatory saffron, bay leaf, hot pepper. In restaurants, chefs are often added to kharcho special blend of spices, called "hops-suneli." Rather, it is not added for taste and for flavor. This mixture can buy or make your own: Mix the basil, mint, savory, dill, hot red pepper and marjoram. This mixture of "hops-suneli" very complex, so it is quite possible to make a simplified version, no you will not blame for this.
There are many options kharcho recipes (still more than a thousand years, this soup is ready). Who exactly created this soup - history, as often happens in the culinary world, is silent. And now appeared recipes simplified grub, grub pork kharcho Chicken, kharcho in Multivarki and so on. Therefore, choose a recipe and proceed to cooking. Be patient and peace of mind - this soup does not tolerate noise and the words "in a hurry".

Homemade soup kharcho

You will need: 400 grams of beef, 1 clove garlic, 1 carrot, 2 onions, 3-4 tablespoons of rice, a bunch of herbs (parsley, dill, cilantro), half cup tkemali, half cup of walnuts, salt, pepper, spices to taste.
Preparation:
In a large saucepan, boil half a liter of water and cook the beef in it one piece at a low boil. Cook for a couple of hours. Broth for soup is supposed to be nourishing. Next, remove the beef from the broth, remove all the bones and meat cut into pieces. Sliced beef to bring back into the boiling broth. Peel and cut the carrots and onions. Put the broth tkemali (2 liters of soup is better to add 2 spoonfuls of mashed or cut tkemali 100 grams of fresh plum, remove the seeds). If tkemali not, then add the tomato paste. The broth should be noticeably sour. If that, then you can adjust the acid pomegranate juice.

Give the soup to boil 5 minutes and add chopped carrots. Boil carrots for exactly 10 minutes. Add chopped onion, bring to a boil and simmer, covered, at low boil for half an hour.
While the broth is cooked with vegetables, cook walnut filling. Bust half a cup of walnut kernels, slug fried nuts in a dry pan. Then rub the nuts in a mortar until smooth and the appearance of traces of peanut butter. Garlic peel and grind. Add rice and cook the soup for 10 minutes.
Then kharcho added walnut-garlic dressing. The soup is cooked for another 15 minutes. Then add spices boil for another 5 minutes. Add the chopped herbs and cook for another 2 minutes.

Soup with chicken kharcho

You will need: 1 chicken breast half cup of rice, 2-3 cloves of garlic, 3-5 tablespoons of sauce tkemali, 3 tablespoons of tomato sauce, hops-suneli, greens.
Preparation: Put to cook chicken breast in 3 liters of water. Salt water. After 15 minutes (30 minutes before the end) put the washed rice, finely chopped onion.
After another 20 minutes (10 minutes before end of cooking), add chopped garlic, tomato sauce (or tomato) sauce tkemali, hops-suneli, bay leaf. Pepper and salt. At the end, add the chopped parsley.

Video recipe soup prigotvoleniya kharcho

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