How much to cook a hodgepodge?
1 hour.In a multicooker cook the prefabricated meat hodgepodge 2 hours and insist more half an hour.
How to cook a hodgepodge
Products
For a 5 liter saucepan
Beef on the bone - 400 grams
Spicy smoked sausage - 100 grams
Sausages - 3 pieces
Cooked-smoked ham - 100 grams
Tomatoes - 2 pieces (can be replaced with 2 tablespoons of tomato paste)
Olives and / or olives - 100 grams
Pickles - 3 medium-sized cucumbers
Bow - 1 large head
Black peppercorns - 5 peas
Lemon - a few circles without zest
Dill or parsley - a few twigs
Sour cream - spoon on a plate
Vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons
Capers - 2 tablespoons
Salt - 1 teaspoon
How to cook a hodgepodge
1. Pour 4 liters of water into a saucepan, add a little salt, put on high heat.
2. Put the beef in a saucepan, when the water boils - reduce heat and remove foam; then cook under the lid.
3. Boil the beef for 1 hour, then remove from the pan, chop and return to the broth.
4. Cut sausage and ham into thin cubes.
5. Peel and finely chop onions and tomatoes (peel the tomatoes by sprinkling with boiling water).
6. Preheat a frying pan, pour 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil, put onions and fry them for 5 minutes over medium heat with constant stirring until transparent.
7. Add tomatoes and simmer for another 5 minutes.
8. Cut the cucumbers into thin strips or grate on a coarse grater, add to the onions and carrots along with tomatoes or tomato paste.
9. While the vegetables are stewing, cut the sausages into thin semicircles, fry in a separate frying pan for 3 minutes.
10. Add the frying to the hodgepodge, cook for 2 minutes.
11. Add fried sausages, ham and sausage to the soup, cook for another 10 minutes.
12. Add 2 tablespoons of capers to the cooked hodgepodge.
We serve the hodgepodge to the table
It is necessary to serve the hodgepodge, putting 1 circle of lemon, a spoonful of sour cream and a pinch of greens in each plate.
How to cook a hodgepodge in a multicooker
1. Put the beef in a multicooker pan, pour 5 liters of hot water and cook for 1.5 hours on the "Stew" mode.
2. Strain the broth, chop the boiled meat.
3.Fry onions with tomatoes or tomato paste in a skillet in vegetable oil, then add cucumbers and simmer for 5 minutes.
4. Put frying, chopped sausages and sausages into a slow cooker.
5. Turn on the multicooker on the "Stew" mode, cook the hodgepodge for half an hour, then insist for another half hour.
6. Pour capers into the prepared hodgepodge.
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Funniest facts about hodgepodge
Solyanka classicSolyanka is called "meat assortment", because there is no exemplary collection for hodgepodge - to taste, a collection of any sausages and cuts is put into the hodgepodge. Only the rule of proportions of products for hodgepodge is relevant - for a 5-liter pan, 400 grams of meat with bone and 400 grams of collection.
How to salt a hodgepodge
Salt should be monitored with extreme caution, as the cooking ingredients have enough salt to impart excellent taste to the dish; be sure to try the soup while cooking.
How to diversify the taste of hodgepodge
In a hodgepodge recipe, beef broth can be replaced with pork (from 400 grams of pork), chicken (from 2 legs) or turkey (from 1 drumstick), mushroom (400 grams of mushrooms) or fish (600 grams of fish). You can also use smoked meat as a replacement - in the same quantity as raw meat.
For the juiciness of the hodgepodge, 5 minutes before adding frying, pour into the soup either a glass of pickle from cucumbers, or marinade from olives or olives. You can also add 1 tablespoon of sugar to the frying - in combination with smoked and salted, sugar will harmoniously complement the taste.
In addition to meat, sausages and ham, pork kidneys, beef kidneys, sausages, small sausages, hunting sausages, beef and pork tongues, smoked horse meat, basturma, pork or beef heart are perfect for hodgepodge. You can also use a smoked pizza set.
The sourness of the hodgepodge will pleasantly set off mayonnaise; it is added to a bowl of soup instead of sour cream.
For more richness, it is recommended to add 1 tablespoon of flour when frying the onion - and fry the onion with flour for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Optionally, potatoes (for our recipe - 5 pieces), barley (one third of a glass) or sauerkraut (200 grams) are added to the hodgepodge.
Olives or olives in a hodgepodge can be cut into rings before adding.
Capers in a hodgepodge are necessary for sourness, they can be replaced with gherkins, nasturtium fruits, or not added to the hodgepodge at all. Pickled cucumbers, too, can be added to the hodgepodge only if desired.
How to cook a hodgepodge cheaply and quickly
To save time on cooking hodgepodge, use 400 grams more sausages, sausages and ham instead of meat - cook the sliced hodgepodge for only half an hour.
To save on the cost of hodgepodge, you can go to the meat market - and there it is very cheap to buy just sausage scraps. Price - about 100-150 rubles. (on average in Moscow as of February 2019). The cost of all products for the hodgepodge is from 650 rubles / 5 liters according to the specified recipe.
About the benefits of hodgepodge
Solyanka can be attributed to high-calorie anti-hangover soups. The calorie content of the meat hodgepodge - depending on the collection, from 70 to 100 kcal / 100 grams.
Last update Author / Editor - Lydia Ivanova