How much to cook kulesh?

40 minutes.

How to cook kulesh

Products
Pork belly - 500 grams
Potatoes - 5 pieces
Onions - 2 pieces
Carrots - 1 piece
Millet - two thirds of a glass
Bay leaf - 2 pieces
Dill - 1 bunch
Parsley - 1 bunch
Salt - 2 teaspoons
Water - 2.5 liters

Cook kulesh
1. Cut 500 grams of pork belly into small cubes.
2. Chop 2 onions, 1 carrot, 5 potatoes in small pieces.
3. Pour two-thirds of a glass of millet into a deep bowl.
4. Rinse the millet: pour the groats with water, stir with a spoon, carefully drain the water, repeat 4 times.
5. Chop 1 bunch of dill and parsley.
6. Pour 2.5 liters of water into a saucepan, put on medium heat, bring water to a boil.
7. Pour millet into boiling water, cook for 10 minutes.
8. Add potatoes and carrots, cook for 10 minutes.
9. Put the frying pan on medium heat, heat for 1 minute.
10. Put the brisket cubes in a skillet, fry for 7 minutes over medium heat, stirring occasionally.
11. Add the onion to the pan, fry for 5 minutes.
12. Put onion with cracklings (fried brisket pieces) in a saucepan with millet and potatoes.
13. Add 2 teaspoons of salt, 2 leaves of lavrushka, cook for 5 minutes.
14. At the very end of cooking, add chopped herbs to the pan.
Let the kuleshu stand for 10 minutes and serve.

Fusofacts

- Kulesh is a dish of Ukrainian cuisine. This is a thick soup that replaces the first and second courses.

- Connoisseurs of traditions cook millet separately and add it to the rest of the products at the very end of cooking, and the kulesh itself is cooked in a cauldron over a fire.

- Traditionally, pork lard (fat brisket) is used for kulesha, but today recipes for kulesha with chicken breast, beef and even sausages are no less popular.

- The calorie content of the dish is about 450 kcal / 100 grams.

- The average cost of food for July 2019 in Moscow for making kulesh is from 280 rubles (for our recipe).

- Store kulesh in the refrigerator for 72 hours.

- To cook lean kolyosh, replace meat with mushrooms. To avoid losing nutritional value, add 1 extra carrot to the soup and double the amount of oil.

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November 20, 2015 Last update June 7, 2020Author / Editor - Lydia Ivanova

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