Among the first dishes, soups are very popular among cooks. Cooking them is easier and easier than other "liquid", but for taste and nutritional qualities and for usefulness this kind of food will not yield to any other. Vegetables, cereals, mushrooms, fruit - there really is no limit to the culinary exuberance!
General recommendations
Particularly indicative in this regard is pearl soup. Although it is associated with public catering (Soviet-era canteens, army and sanatorium, hospital kitchens), however, properly prepared, will give odds to many culinary delights. The main thing is how to boil the rump. Then pearl soup will turn out fragrant, full, rich. And to save cooking time, be sure to soak the pearl bar for 3-4 hours, so that it thoroughly softened. And, of course, go through, otherwise all garbage will get into the food. And before soaking, rinse well under running water. Appetizing is obtained with pearl soup on a meat broth. But he is good and lean. For flavor and flavor variety, do not forget to put roots, and for a more pronounced color - carrots. We can please lovers of dairy cuisine: from this article you will learn how to prepare milk pearl soup.
Milk soup
That's it, by the way, and start! The dish will have to taste all sweet tooth, especially children. You can prepare it for breakfast or dinner. And the problems with what and how to feed the little prized, you will not have! How is a sweet soup with pearl barley cooked ? Recipe recommends for each liter of milk to take 5 tablespoons of pearl barley. You do not need to fall asleep again, otherwise you will not get the first, but the porridge. Rinse the groats, wash and soak for at least 2 hours. And it's better from the evening, if you plan a dish for the morning, or from dinner, if you want to serve it for dinner. Yes, and the fire should stand soup with pearl barley, the recipe indicates, almost an hour. So do everything in advance! Fill the croup in boiling water and cook for about 10 minutes. Then drain the water, and transfer the pearl bar to a saucepan of hot milk. Boil for 45-50 minutes on a small fire, stirring occasionally. If the soup is too thick, add more milk. At the end of cooking, pour a bag of vanillin or vanilla sugar into it. Sweeten the dish to taste, sprinkle with a few spoons of butter and remove from heat. Serve the dish hot, with butter croutons. And put in each plate a few leaves of mint.
Mushroom delicacy
But for dinner it will be pearl barley soup with mushrooms. How to prepare the grain in advance, you already know. Very delicious is the dish, cooked on meat broth. It will take about 2-2.5 liters. Boil the pearl bar until half cooked. On the soup pot, about half or two thirds of the glass is consumed. You will also need potatoes - 4-5 tubers, 250-300 g of mushrooms (you want - put more, this is already an amateur), 200 g of parsley and celery roots, 1 onion, a little oil for roasting, as well as spices: bay leaves, fragrant Pepper, salt. Peel the potatoes and cut them into small pieces. Wash the mushrooms and fry in butter together with onion. Root cut into small cubes and add to the mushrooms, add a little. In the boiling broth, put the croup, and let it boil for 15 minutes. Then add the potatoes. After another 10 minutes, send the mushroom fry to the pan. Shortly before cooking, salt, pepper, add spices. Before serving, sprinkle the soup with parsley or dill and season with sour cream. It can be put and directly into the plates. A noble is obtained by the fire, that's it!
Cereal rassolnik: cook broth-base
Lovers of delicious for sure will enjoy pearl soup with cucumbers, and simply put, rassolnik. Traditionally, it is cooked with kidneys, usually beef. Process them you need to be able to: carefully remove fat, remove the film. Each kidney (for soup it takes a half a kilogram) to cut into several parts, wash, put into a pan with cold (cold!) Water and allow to boil. Then drain the water and rinse the meat again under the tap. Now you can cook broth from it - the procedure lasts about an hour and a half.
Cereal rassolnik: bring the dish to readiness
During this time, you can prepare the rest of the ingredients. You will need half a glass of pearl barley (pre-soaked), 2-3 pickles, 50 g of celery root, 1 stalk and 1 parsley root, a small carrot, onion head, 4 large potatoes. Roots and onion cut into strips and fry in vegetable oil. Cut potatoes into slices, cucumbers, and carrots into cubes. When the broth is ready, remove the kidneys, and strain the broth. Put the rump in it and cook for 15 minutes. Add cucumbers and potatoes and cook for another half hour. Approximately 10 minutes before the expiration of the term, put the roast in the soup and pour in a little cucumber brine (so that the taste is more vivid). Kidneys chop, place on plates. Pour rassolnik, add to the plates of sour cream and chopped greens. Delicious dinner you got!