What dishes and soups only do not call the sweet word "hodgepodge". It is cooked in a variety of ways, whoever what. There are hundreds of interesting recipes, each striving to call itself a classic. What is a hodgepodge?
Cabbage in hodgepodge? No, have not met
There is no cabbage in the hodgepodge. This name is often referred to as a dish of stewed vegetables. In addition to cabbage, it contains onions, carrots, eggplants, potatoes, and tomatoes can be added. A kind of stew in which sausage and meat also has a place.
Classic hodgepodge is a cabbage-free filling soup.
It is thick, with broth, served in deep plates, has a rich aroma and bright color. Applies to first courses. Cabbage hodgepodge is a stew or stewed vegetables, they belong to the second dishes, served in flat or semi-serving dishes.
There is never much meat
Prefabricated hodgepodge is prepared from several types of meat, sausage, poultry.
According to the rules, at least five products must be used.
Be sure to include smoked meat in the form of ham, bacon or at least sausage. All this comes together, hence the name. Hodgepodge is not prepared from one or two types of meat.
The second point is a saturated and concentrated broth. It should be prepared from a large number of seeds. The meat is then peeled from them, added to the dish. They do not make a hodgepodge on water, it will be just sausage soup.
Where without potatoes?
Anywhere, but not in a hodgepodge. According to the rules, a prefabricated meat dish is prepared without potatoes. This starchy vegetable will only spoil the rich taste of the broth, add muti. If you want to thicken the soup, make it more nutritious, then it is better to use other methods.
What to add for density:
- pickles;
- olives, capers;
- carrots;
- salted mushrooms;
- chopped tomatoes.
You can simply increase the number of products that are already in the recipe. You definitely won’t spoil the hodgepodge with this, and there is no place for potatoes in it.
Refueling is a delicate matter
Solyanka is a dish with an unusual dressing. The original aroma and taste is given to it by olives, lemon, pickle from olives or cucumbers, in addition, you can enter any spices. They make the taste saturated, add pungency. The aroma of this soup is not to be confused with anything. But there are things that are better not to add to the hodgepodge.
What you should not season with a dish:
- Garlic. It will interrupt the aroma of smoked meats and meat, and will eclipse the taste of pickles.
- Oriental hops-suneli mixtures. They are not suitable for this dish, the hodgepodge should not smell like that.
- Bouillon cubes, seasonings like "Rolton". For soup, a cool and natural broth is used, similar chemical dressings will kill it.
- Dry greens. Traditionally, lay only fresh dill and parsley in the hodgepodge, it is best to add to the plates.
- Vinegar. The acid gives the soup lemon, tomato, brine. If the taste is not enough or there is no lemon, then the introduction of diluted citric acid, but not vinegar, is allowed.
In addition to olives, hodgepodge is often seasoned with capers. It is important to introduce such ingredients at the very end, do not boil them hard, the taste of the dish will suffer.
And the fish comes across?
You can cook hodgepodge team and in the fish version. It also turns out a very nutritious and healthy dish, but with some nuances.
For it, five types of fish are required, and seafood can be used.
Such a hodgepodge is prepared with the addition of tomato paste, olives, lemon and always on fish stock. Illiquid parts are usually used for it: ridges and other bones, fins of the head.
The recipe for a real team of meat hodgepodge
So, the real hodgepodge is a rich and rich soup with a sour-spicy taste and an interesting smoked aroma. Naturally, its budget options do not exist. In order for the dish to please the taste and succeed, you will have to purchase several meat products. Here is the classic recipe and technology. Such a soup will definitely appeal to households.
Ingredients
- 300 g of pork;
- 300 g of beef;
- 1 onion;
- 400 g smoked meats;
- 200 g of sausage;
- 3 sausages;
- 1 carrot;
- 100 g of tomato paste;
- 300 g pickled cucumbers;
- 60 ml of vegetable oil;
- olives, sour cream, herbs and lemon;
- spice.
Cooking method
- We take meat with seeds, but the pulp should be no less than the specified amount. Rinse the pork and beef, add 2.5 liters of water. Cook regular broth. Remove the meat, strain the broth, return to the pan.
- Add chopped smoked meat to the hot broth. It can be chicken wings, pork ribs, sternum. We choose to your taste, but immediately cut into small pieces. Leave to boil.
- In vegetable oil, fry the onions and carrots until transparent, add the pickles. They can be grated or finely cut with a knife. We cook vegetables for about five minutes, introduce tomato paste. Stew a little more. If the paste is thick, then we introduce half a cup of broth from the saucepan.
- We send a little oil to the pan, add chopped sausages, sausages, and fry slightly to improve the taste.
- We spread sausages and vegetables in a pan. We boil the boiled meat from the seeds, add afterwards. Salt the dish, but gently and slightly. Let’s sweat over a small fire for a quarter of an hour.
- Cut lemon into slices. We get the olives from the brine. We chop the greens, cook the pepper.
- We try the soup, throw olives in it and pour a little brine from them, pepper. Sometimes the hodgepodge is seasoned with cucumber pickle, and so it can.
- We lay out the dish in plates, supplement with lemon, sour cream, fresh herbs. We serve to the table.
You can use chopped bacon or lard instead of oil for frying vegetables. It is allowed to replace tomato paste with tomatoes. You can also make a hodgepodge without pork or beef, replace one type of meat with poultry. The soup will turn out to be tasteless and "empty" if cooked completely without meat.
ATTENTION! You can add at least ten types of sausage and ham, but without a piece of pork or beef it will be a completely different dish.
