A nourishing hot first meat dish that will not leave anyone indifferent - meat hodgepodge with kidneys and smoked meats. Let's find out a step-by-step recipe with a photo. Video recipe.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
Intense meat taste, smoked meats aroma, light sourness - hodgepodge - the fundamental basis of Russian cuisine, according to William Pokhlebkin, a classic of Russian gastronomy. This is one of the few dishes where technological simplicity of preparation, rich taste, spectacular appearance and amazing result are harmoniously combined. This Russian soup combines a sour-salty-spicy taste at the same time. But, despite such a riot of culinary palette, the food is really tasty.
The basis of the soup is broth. According to the rules, you do not need to salt it. Because the hodgepodge is saturated with salt from smoked meats, pickles and tomato dressing. For the simplest version of homemade hodgepodge, you can take meat or chicken broth. Smoked pork belly, smoked chicken legs, or any smoked sausage are suitable as smoked meats. It is also considered a real classic hodgepodge if it is cooked with kidneys. But if this product scares you, then you can take your tongue or stomachs instead. In addition, fried pickles are considered an integral attribute. And the field of improvisation in the selection of the meat component, smoked meats and the method of cutting products, you need to decide on the use of tomato paste or sautéed tomatoes. The final touch is lemon juice or lemon wedge dipped in each serving. The proportions of food depend on the desired thickness and acidity of the dish.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 68 kcal.
- Servings Per Container - 4-5
- Cooking time - 2 hours 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- Pork - 300 g
- Chicken fillet - 1 pc.
- Smoked pork belly - 250 g
- Smoked chicken leg - 1 pc.
- Kidneys - 3 pcs.
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Pickled cucumbers - 3 pcs.
- Bay leaf - 2 pcs.
- Tomato paste - 2 tablespoons
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
- Allspice - 3 peas
- Vegetable oil - for frying
Step-by-step preparation of a mixed meat hodgepodge with kidneys and smoked meats, a recipe with a photo:
1. First of all, take care of your kidneys. They can be prepared in several ways. Soak the first one for 6-8 hours, while changing the water every 1.5 hours. Then boil in 2 waters. Drain the first after boiling for 5 minutes, and bring the second until tender. The second option is to boil them right away, but during cooking, change the water 5-7 times after boiling for 5-7 minutes, and bring it to readiness in the last water. The kidneys are boiled for about 50-60 minutes. But the cooking time still depends on the size. They can be boiled whole or cut into slices.
2. Taste the readiness of the kidneys according to their softness. After they have cooled, cut them into medium-sized cubes. In doing so, keep in mind that all products must be cut the same for the dish to look beautiful.
3. While the kidneys are soaking and boiling, prepare the broth. Wash the pork and chicken, cut into small pieces, as they should look in the finished dish, add the peeled onion and bay leaf.
4. Cut the cucumbers and carrots into small cubes and fry in a frying pan in vegetable oil until golden brown.
5. Put the broth to boil. After boiling, remove the resulting foam, turn the heat on and cook the broth for 1 hour. Remove the onion at the end of cooking. She gave the dish taste, benefit and aroma.
6. Then add fried cucumbers with carrots to the finished broth.
7. Place the sliced smoked chicken leg and smoked pork belly.
8. Add the chopped buds.
nine. And put in the tomato paste.
10. Boil and simmer food for 10 minutes. Season with ground pepper and salt if necessary.
11. Serve the prepared hodgepodge hot and squeeze 1 tsp into each portion. lemon juice.
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