Shchi - general principles of cooking
Soup - traditionally Russian multicomponent first course. Fish soup is cooked most often in meat broth (beef, pork or chicken). To cook lean soup, you can use mushrooms or just a vegetable set. The second important and integral component of any soup is cabbage. Soup can be fresh (from ordinary white cabbage) or sour (from sauerkraut). Also in the dish add vegetable roasting, which is prepared from carrots and onions, sometimes also added Bulgarian pepper. The spices used are garlic, hot pepper, bay leaf, dill, parsley roots or celery stalks. There are also green shchi, in which they put sorrel, nettles, spinach, cilantro, tarragon, dandelion leaves, sour berries, yasnotku and any other greens.
A distinctive feature of any soup is their characteristic sour taste. It is achieved most often by adding sauerkraut, sorrel or salted mushrooms. Laying raw foods is one of the techniques used in the process of cooking soup. Recently, however, passaged products (onions with carrots) are increasingly being added. In order to give a broader meat flavor to the soup, sometimes a bit of ham or bacon is added to the dish. Fish soup can also be fishy, but such recipes are not widespread.
Shchi can be eaten with sour cream or mayonnaise, and the best dish to eat is fresh black bread. To each batch add chopped greens and chopped green onions. Green soup is well combined with boiled eggs.
Shchi - preparation of food and dishes
A large pan is required from the dishes, in which the broth will boil, and then the soup itself, a frying pan, a knife, a skimmer, a cutting board, a colander, and you also need to prepare a clean gauze to filter the broth.
All vegetables are thoroughly washed and dried, then cut into cubes, cubes or straws. Carrots are best grated. If required, onions and carrots are passaged. The meat is thoroughly washed, the veins cut off and set to boil. Usually, the meat is cooked in a whole piece, and then cut into small portions. Recipes cabbage soup:
Recipe 1: Fresh Cabbage Soup
Such soup is also called “Summer”. The first dish is cooked on beef bone, also includes fresh cabbage, onions, potatoes and tomatoes. All this abundance of vegetables is supplemented with fresh fragrant greens and seasonings.
Ingredients Required:
- Beef bones - about 750-900 g will be required for 3 liters of broth;
- White cabbage - 250-320 g;
- 3-5 potatoes;
- 2 onions;
- 2 carrots;
- Fresh tomatoes - 1-2 pcs. (they can be replaced with 15 ml of tomato paste);
- A large bunch of dill and parsley;
- 2 bay leaves;
- Peas allspice - 2-3 pieces;
- Salt, black pepper;
- Vegetable oil - 45 ml.
Preparation Method:
To start, prepare the broth: Immersed and washed the meat immersed in water and bring to a boil. Remove the resulting foam and lay the peeled carrots and onions (1 piece each). After boiling again make the minimum fire and cook the broth for about 2-3 hours. After the meat reaches readiness, we add salt to the broth, and throw away the carrots and onions. We take out the meat, let it cool and cut into medium pieces. Strain the broth through gauze and pour into a clean pan. Wash potatoes, peel and cut into small cubes, lay out in meat broth. Wash my cabbage and chop finely. We spread cabbage with meat in cabbage soup. After boiling, boiling time will be 22-25 minutes (cabbage and potatoes should be soft). Peel the onions and carrots and cut them into small cubes. First, carrot in vegetable oil, then add onions. Fry everything together for about 6-7 minutes. We spread the roasting in the soup, then add the pepper and bay leaf. Cook all together on low heat for 11-12 minutes. Washed tomatoes are cut into small cubes (if tomato paste is used, add it to the vegetable roast). Put the tomatoes in the pan and cook for another 2-3 minutes. At the end of cooking add finely chopped greens, salt and pepper. Turn off the fire, cover the pan with a lid and wait until the soup is infused.
Recipe 2: Sauerkraut Soup
Another recipe for the most popular first dish. Instead of fresh cabbage, sour is used here, but the soup does not make it worse.
Ingredients Required:
- One pound of meat;
- A pound of sauerkraut cabbage;
- Carrot - 1 pc .;
- Onion - 1 pc .;
- 3 potatoes;
- Tomato paste - 30 ml;
- Salt;
- Vegetable oil;
- Peppers.
Preparation Method:
We wash the meat, fill it with water and set to boil (beef broth cooks longer than pork). Periodically remove the foam. Clean and shred onions. Wash carrots, scrape off the top layer and rub on a grater. Fry carrots with onions in vegetable oil. With sauerkraut you need to drain the liquid and stew the cabbage. To do this, lay out the cabbage in a deep frying pan, add a glass of water, add a little oil and simmer for about half an hour (too sour cabbage can be pre-washed with water). Wash the potatoes, peel them, cut them into medium slices and put them into the ready broth. Then add the vegetable roast and cabbage. After we start tomato paste. Cook soup until ready. Salt must be added only after the cabbage is cooked. Serve with sour cream and chopped green onions.
Recipe 3: soup in a slow cooker
A delicious and healthy soup recipe for those who have a slow cooker.
Ingredients Required:
- A pound of beef;
- Onion - 1 pc .;
- 1 tomato;
- 1 carrot;
- Quarter of a large fork of cabbage (white);
- 4 potatoes;
- Salt and pepper to taste;
- Sunflower oil - 50 ml;
- 1 bay leaf.
Preparation Method:
Set the mode "Baking" for 40 minutes. Pour the oil on the bottom and lay out the chopped onions. Close the lid. Meat is washed, processed and finely cut, lay out in a slow cooker and close the lid. Wash carrots, peel and grate three, add to the meat with onions. We are waiting for the end of the program. Wash potatoes, peel and cut into small cubes. My tomato and finely cut. Wash cabbage and shred ribbons or straws. At the end of the program, add potatoes, cabbage and tomato, pour all the water up to the maximum mark. Add spices and set the mode of "Quenching" for half an hour.
Recipe 4: Sour soup
A delicious recipe for sour soup of meat, vegetables, sauerkraut and tomato ketchup. Especially delicious dish is obtained using ketchup brand “Heinz”.
Ingredients Required:
- Meat - half a kilo;
- Sauerkraut - half a kilo;
- Potatoes - 160-190 g;
- 1 onion;
- Carrot;
- Flour - 1 tbsp. l .;
- Butter - 35 ml;
- Tomato ketchup “Heinz” - 2 tbsp. l .;
- Salt and pepper to taste.
Preparation Method:
Cook meat broth. We squeeze the sauerkraut (we wash it too sour) and set the stew. In a deep frying pan lay out the cabbage, pour 1.5 water, add the oil and simmer on low heat for about an hour. Strain the broth, lay out the cabbage, sliced potatoes, pieces of meat, carrot and onion roasting and add ketchup. Cook soup on low heat until done. At the very end put pepper, bay leaf and fried flour. Salt cabbage after the cabbage is cooked. Give the dish to brew and serve with sour cream and herbs.
Recipe 5: Lenten soup
Lenten soup is not worse than meat. Included in the dish is a standard set of vegetables, garlic and spices. Such soup is very tasty and healthy.
Ingredients Required:
- Potatoes - 4 pcs .;
- A pound of cabbage;
- Onion;
- Garlic - 1-3 cloves;
- Pepper and salt;
- 1 carrot;
- 1 Bulgarian pepper;
- 2 tomatoes;
- Fresh greens;
- Bay leaf.
Preparation Method:
Washed potatoes clean and cut into cubes or cubes. Cabbage shred straw. Put cabbage and potatoes into boiling water, add bay leaf and pepper, cook for about 20 minutes. Clean and chop the onions, wash my carrots, peel and rub them on the grater. Fry carrots with onions in vegetable oil. Pepper wash, remove the seeds and cut into strips. We spread to carrots with onions. With tomatoes, remove the skin, after holding them in boiling water. Cut the tomatoes and lay them in a vegetable roast. Add to vegetable soup, all vegetables and chopped garlic. Cook for about 13-15 minutes on low heat. Serve the first dish with chopped greens.
Recipe 6: cabbage soup with mushrooms
Mushroom soup is very tasty, light and fragrant. You can use ordinary champignons for cooking.
Ingredients Required:
- Potatoes - 170 g;
- White cabbage - 300-320 g;
- Champignons - 260 g;
- Onion;
- Ground black pepper.
- Carrots;
- Tomato paste - 2 tbsp. l .;
- 5-7 peas of allspice;
- Laurel;
- Salt;
- Greens.
Preparation Method:
Wash the potatoes, peel and cut into small cubes. Washed cabbage subtly shred. Chop the peeled onions. Washed and peeled carrots need to be grated on a coarse grater. Wash the mushrooms and cut into strips. Pour into the pan 2.5-3 liters of water and bring to a boil. Water salt and put the potatoes. Boil the potatoes on low heat for about 13-15 minutes from the moment of boiling. Fry onions and carrots in vegetable oil, then lay out the roasting in a bowl. In the same pan, fry the mushrooms, salt, pepper and spread them to the carrots and onions. Put cabbage in a frying pan, pepper it, add Lavrushka and pea pepper and fry. Add a little water and stew the cabbage until soft. Then we spread carrots, onions, mushrooms and tomato paste to cabbage. Simmer all together for about 3-4 minutes. Put stewed vegetables with mushrooms in a saucepan with potatoes and boil them all together for about 5-7 minutes. We add soup, pepper and add chopped greens. Cover with a lid, remove the pan from the heat and leave to infuse for 10-15 minutes.
Recipe 7: Green soup
Prepare this fresh aromatic dish with the appearance of the first greens. Parsley, dill, cilantro and potatoes are included here. And they serve such soup with boiled eggs.
Ingredients Required:
- Young sorrel - 300 g;
- Greens (parsley, cilantro, dill, arugula and tarragon) - 100 g;
- Potatoes - 120 g;
- Onions - 1 head;
- Butter - 45 ml;
- 1 bay leaf;
- Salt and ground black pepper;
- Sour cream;
- 4 eggs.
Preparation Method:
Peel the onions, chop them very finely and fry in vegetable oil to a nice golden color. Put onions in a saucepan and pour 1.5 liters of water. Add Lavrushka and boil on medium heat for about 10 minutes. Wash potatoes, peel and cut into small cubes. Put the potatoes in a pan with onions. Cook another 10 minutes. Greens are washed, cut off all the stems, lay out the leaves in the remaining oil and cook for about three minutes. Then we put the greens in the pan with the potatoes and cook another 2-3 minutes. Boiled eggs cut into slices. Serve soup with sour cream and egg slices.
Recipe 8: Sour soup recipe
A simple recipe for delicious and hearty sour cabbage of the most affordable ingredients.
Ingredients Required:
- Beef - 400 g;
- Pickled cabbage - 250 g;
- 1 carrot;
- 5 potatoes;
- 1 onion;
- Pea pepper;
- Salt;
- Bay leaf.
Preparation Method:
Meat washed, pour water and set to cook. The preparation time of the broth is at least 1.5 hours. We wash the potatoes, peel them off and cut them into small cubes. Peel the onion and chop finely. Carrots clean and three on a coarse grater. Put potatoes in boiling broth and cook for 5 minutes. Then add onions, carrots, peppers and bay leaves. Salt to taste and cook for about 10 minutes. We put sauerkraut in the soup and cook it all together for about half an hour.
Recipe 9: Chicken Soup
Chicken soup is very tender, tasty and healthy. White chicken meat, vegetables and seasonings come in here.
Ingredients Required:
- Chicken meat - 500-600 g;
- White cabbage - half a kilo;
- Onion - 2 pcs .;
- Carrots - 2 pcs .;
- 4 potatoes;
- Tomatoes - 3 pcs .;
- Bay leaves - 2-3 pcs .;
- Ground black pepper, salt;
- Pea pepper;
- Sugar - 1 tsp;
- Vegetable oil - 60 ml;
- Water - 2.5-3 l.
Preparation Method:
Cook the broth: wash the chicken, cut off the skin and fill with water. After boiling add small peeled carrots and onions. Cook until done, periodically removing the foam. While the broth is being prepared, prepare the vegetables: peel the potatoes and cut them into small cubes, clean the carrots and rub them on a coarse grater, finely chop the onion and cabbage. We clean the tomatoes from the skin, first dropping them into boiling water. Cut tomatoes into small cubes. We spread on the pan heated with vegetable oil onion and fry for about two minutes, then add carrots, tomatoes and sugar. All mix and simmer for about 3-4 minutes. We take out the meat from the broth and separate from the bones. Strain the broth, pour the potatoes into it and bring to a boil. After boiling we spread cabbage and vegetable roasting. Salt, pepper and cook soup until cooked, periodically checking cabbage and potatoes. Before the end of the preparation, add lavrushka, pea pepper and chicken meat. Cover the pot with the lid and leave for 18-20 minutes. Serve with chopped herbs, sour cream and garlic.
Recipe 10: Sauerkraut Soup
Another delicious recipe cabbage soup from sauerkraut. In addition to meat, this includes vegetables, parsley root and seasonings.
Ingredients Required:
- Beef - 700 g;
- Carrots - 200 g;
- Onions - 200 g;
- Sour cabbage - 300 g;
- Potatoes - 600 g;
- Salt;
- Parsley root;
- Pepper;
- Bay leaf.
Preparation Method:
Cook the meat until cooked for 1.5 hours. We take out the meat and cut the beef into small cubes. Spread back into the meat broth. Clean and shred the onion. We wash the washed carrots and rub them on a coarse grater. Fry onions with carrots in vegetable oil. Peel the potatoes, cut them into bars and put them into boiling broth. After 5-6 minutes, add the washed cabbage to the soup, and after 10 minutes lay out the roasting. At the very least, add salt, pepper, laurea and parsley root. Cook soup until cooked potatoes.
Recipe 11: Sorrel Schi
Such soup is good to cook in the spring, when the first young greens appear. However, the most saturated soup is obtained at the end of the summer, when sorrel has already gained enough taste and aroma.
Ingredients Required:
- Beef - 400 g;
- Onions - 3 small heads;
- Carrots - 1 pc .;
- Sorrel - to taste;
- Potatoes - 300-350 g;
- 2 celery stalks;
- Parsley roots;
- Salt.
Preparation Method:
Meat washed, pour water and set to cook. Put the parsley root and celery stalks into the pan. Cooked broth for about 1.5 hours. Peeled onion finely chopped, washed carrots clean and three grated. Putting carrots and onions in broth (do not need to pre-fry). Peel the potatoes and cut them into cubes, add them to the pan. While everything is cooked, we wash the sorrel leaves properly and cut them into ribbons. Add sorrel after the potatoes have become soft. Cook soup for about 5 minutes and turn off the fire. Insist the dish for 20 minutes and serve with sour cream and hard-boiled eggs.
Recipe 12: Shchi with beans
Such soup is doubly nutritious due to the bean, which contains a lot of protein. Preparing a dish on pork.
Ingredients Required:
- A pound of pork;
- Potatoes - 800 g;
- Carrots - 140 g;
- Onions - 140 g;
- Red beans -200 g;
- Sauerkraut - 200 g;
- Tomato paste -60 ml;
- Vegetable oil;
- Salt;
- Peppers.
Preparation Method:
Soak the beans for 4 hours in cold water. Cook the broth: wash the pork in water, cut into small pieces and fill with water. After boiling, remove the foam, reduce the heat and cook the meat for about 1 hour. Then lay out the beans and cook all together for another 40-50 minutes. Broth add salt to taste. Peel the potatoes, cut them into cubes and put them into boiling broth. Then add sauerkraut. From the grated carrots and finely chopped onion prepare roasting. Add the tomato paste to the carrots and onions and simmer them all together for about 5 minutes. We spread the roast in the soup and cook until the potatoes are soft. Try and add salt to taste.
Recipe 13: Pickled cabbage in a slow cooker
Soup in the slow cooker is very tasty, fragrant and rich. This recipe uses pork, vegetables, sauerkraut and spices.
Ingredients Required:
- Pork - 400 g;
- 4 potatoes;
- 1 carrot;
- Onions - 1 pc .;
- 300 g sauerkraut;
- Tomato paste - 15 ml;
- Salt;
- Pepper;
- Water;
- Vegetable oil.
Preparation Method:
Meat washed, cut into cubes and spread in a thicket with vegetable oil. Cooking in “Baking” mode for half an hour. Clean and chop the onions, clean the carrots and rub them on a coarse grater. We clean the potatoes and cut them into small cubes. Too sour cabbage washed in water. Add carrots with onions to the pork and stew all together for another 15 minutes. Then we launch tomato paste, potatoes, laurel, cabbage and spices. Fill everything with water and set the “extinguishing” mode for an hour and a half. Ready soup mixed, served with sour cream and herbs.
Recipe 14: Fresh soup with chicken
Very simple and delicious recipe for fresh soup with chicken. You will need meat, fresh cabbage and carrots with onions.
Ingredients Required:
- Chicken - half a kilo;
- White cabbage - half a kilo;
- 2 liters of water;
- Salt;
- Onion;
- 1 carrot.
Preparation Method:
My chicken, pour water and set to boil. After boiling, remove the foam and slightly add some broth. Finished meat is taken out and removed from the bones. Meat cut and lay out again in the broth. After boiling add finely chopped cabbage, chopped onions and grated carrots. Cook the cabbage until soft. Shchi insist and serve with sour cream.
Recipe 15: Fresh soup in a multicooker
Prepare such soup easily and quickly, but it turns out very fragrant and rich.
Ingredients Required:
- Beef - 450-500 g;
- Potatoes - 4 pcs .;
- Fresh cabbage - 460 g;
- 1 carrot;
- 1 onion;
- Tomatoes - 2 pcs .;
- Sunflower oil - 30 ml;
- Salt, pepper;
- Water.
Preparation Method:
Meat is washed, cut into small pieces and lay out in a slow cooker with vegetable oil. Turn on the "baking" for 30 minutes. Clean and chop the onion, clean the carrots and grate. Cabbage finely shred. Add carrots and onions to the meat. Next, add the cabbage. Potatoes clean and cut into cubes, spread in a slow cooker. Tomatoes cut in small pieces and lay out to the meat with vegetables. Add salt, pepper and pour all the water to the top mark. We turn on the “quenching” mode for one and a half hours or the “baking” mode for 30 minutes. Serving dish with chopped green onions.
Recipe 16: Russian shchi
Real Russians can be made from sauerkraut or fresh cabbage. The meat can be any, but it is best to take beef. This recipe uses sauerkraut.
Ingredients Required:
- Beef - 700-800 g;
- Sauerkraut - 300 g;
- 2-3 large potatoes;
- 2 carrots;
- Parsley root - 1-2 pcs .;
- 2 onions;
- Baked lard - 2 tbsp. l .;
- Salt;
- Red pepper - to taste;
- 3-4 bay leaves.
Preparation Method:
Rinse the meat and put to stew. Put the cleaned carrot and the onion, parsley root, bay leaf and a part of red pepper in the pan. Boil the meat for about 2-2.5 hours on very slow fire. Peel potatoes and cut into cubes. Finely chop the onion, grate the carrot. Fry the vegetables in melted lard or butter. Remove cooked meat and cut into pieces. Strain the broth, parsley roots and onions throw away, and chop the carrots and lay back into the broth. Put potatoes into boiled broth, add sauerkraut in a few minutes. Cook all together for 20 minutes, then add the roast. Cook soup 10 more minutes. Then turn off the fire and give the food to infuse. When serving in each plate put a piece of meat and chopped greens.
Recipe 17: Soup with Lenten Mushrooms
Very tasty lean soup of dried mushrooms and sauerkraut. This includes onions.
Ingredients Required:
- White dried mushrooms - 55 g;
- 2 onions;
- Pickled cabbage - 200 g;
- Salt - to taste;
- Vegetable oil - 45-50 ml.
Preparation Method:
Mushrooms soaked in a sheet of cold water for 3-4 hours. Peeled onion finely chop and fry in sunflower oil until golden brown. Slightly squeeze the cabbage, chop a little with a knife and lay it on the onion. Stew it all together until the cabbage softens. Mushrooms we recline on a colander and washed. Infuse the fungi from the mushrooms and pour into the pan, add another 1 liter of water. Bring water to a boil. Put cabbage and onions in a saucepan, add mushrooms. After boiling again boil for about 45 minutes. In the finished dish to taste add salt and pepper.
Shchi - secrets and useful tips from the best chefs
There is no recipe for perfect soup, as each housewife takes ingredients in different proportions and quantities for cooking. Yet a few helpful tips will never hurt:
- beef for soup must be taken fatter;
- to make soup more saturated, you can fill them with a small amount of toasted flour;
- Sour soup can be served with cream instead of sour cream;
- pepper, salt and bay leaf should be added at the end of cooking;
- In fresh soup it is better to put fresh tomatoes.
