We bring to your attention a fairly simple and easy recipe for cabbage soup, which can be obtained even by a novice housewife. The main thing is to comply with all proportions of products and recommendations for the recipe.
Ingredients:
- 600 g of beef on the bone;
- 800-900 g potatoes;
- 250 g carrots;
- 1 onion;
- 300-350 g of white cabbage;
- 1 pinch of black pepper;
- tomato paste to taste;
- fresh dill;
- bay leaves.
Preparation:
- Rinse the meat thoroughly, put in a saucepan (3 l volume), pour over the most ordinary cold water, add salt and place over medium heat. Cook for 1-1, 5 hours after boiling, regularly skimming off the foam. Moreover, at the end of cooking, the meat should be completely cooked.
- Meanwhile, the potato tubers need to be washed from dirt, peeled and chopped into medium cubes.
- After an hour and a half, take out the finished meat, cool, divide into small pieces and put it back in the broth. After the meat, throw potatoes there. Bring all ingredients to a boil, simmer.
- Peel and wash the onion with carrots. Chop the onion into thin half rings, and the carrots on a coarse grater.
- Heat oil in a skillet. Put onion half rings in hot oil and fry them for 2-3 minutes over high heat, stirring continuously.
- After a couple of minutes, add grated carrots to the onion, mix everything and fry again for 2-3 minutes.
- After this time, add tomato paste to the vegetable frying, mix everything again and fry for a short time.
- Finely chop the cabbage with a knife, put in a saucepan and bring to a boil.
- Next, put the frying in the cabbage soup, add salt, pepper, bay leaves and dill to taste. If there is no fresh dill, then you can take dried one.
- Cook until all the ingredients are ready, turn off, then remove and discard the bay leaves, and leave the cabbage soup to stand, covered with a lid, for 15-20 minutes. Note that in order for the cabbage soup to turn out delicious, they must be insisted.
- If sour cabbage soup is needed, then at the end of cooking it is necessary to add the juice squeezed from half a lemon. Shchi can be served with bread, sour cream or mayonnaise.
