The thick soup appeared in the CIS countries. The approximate time of the origin of solyanka is the 15th century. Then various spices known in the East began to be brought into the country. Local cooks began to experiment and add spices to the soup
. The preparation of thick soup on fish broth is traditional. But, the further the soup began to spread across the country, the more variants of preparation became known. For example, people began to cook solyanka with meat and chicken broths, which also turned out delicious.
Now solyanka, most likely, has nothing in common with the old thick soup. It has become sharper, cooked mainly on meat broth with sausages and smoked meats. Let’s tell you how to cook a classic solyanka.
Ingredients for solyanka:
- Pork – 500 g;
- Czech smoked sausages – 300 g;
- Boiled-smoked servelat – 300 g;
- Pork ham – 200 g;
- Doctor’s sausage – 300 g;
- Milk sausages – 200 g;
- Onions – 4 pcs;
- Tomato paste – 200 g;
- Barrel cucumbers – 3 pcs;
- Cucumber brine – 200 g;
- Olives – 100 g;
- Olives – 100 g;
- Parsley;
- Laurel leaf;
- Allspice peas;
- Salt;
- Water – 4 liters.
Preparation of the hodgepodge:
In a saucepan with water put oregano pepper peas, bay leaf and bring to a boil. Cook pork in the water until ready. Chop
finely Czech sausages, milk sausages. Cut doctor’s sausage, ham and serelat into small cubes. Cut the cooked meat into small cubes and remove all the fat.
Cut the onion into quarter rings and fry in vegetable oil until soft. Add tomato paste to the onions. Cut pickles into bars, put them to the onions, stir.
Pour sugar into the onion tomato mixture. Fry, and then pour in the cucumber brine.
Stew onions in tomato paste for 15 minutes under a lid, and then put in the broth.
Fry sausages, sausages, meat and ham to a light golden hue, and then add to the soup in portions
.
Cook the hodgepodge on low heat under a lid for 15-20 minutes.
Cut olives and olives into rings and put them into the hodgepodge.
Cut lemon rings and chop parsley to serve.
This makes a tasty and richly flavored hodgepodge.
