Cucumber soup

The origin of the pickle (cucumber) soup

Pickle soup with rice and cucumber which is so familiar to us does not contain the traditional list of ingredients because the soup with pickles and brine was prepared by the Slavs as early as the fifteenth century, and the rice was brought to Russia by Peter the Great only in eighteenth century. That is why the famous Russian pickle soup with rice and cucumber has little to do with the original recipe, If we look further at the roots of this dish, we’ll figure out that originally pickle soup  was not the first dish. It used to be a meat or fish biscuit pie with buckwheat porridge and boiled eggs, which was filled with hot cucumber pickle. The basis of this traditional Russian dish contains just three old dishes:

I.‘’Callia'' -  caviar soup with pickles;
II.‘'Solyanka'' - meat, mushroom or fish  spicy soup;
III.‘’Pohmelka'' - special spicy sour dish intended for the treatment of withdrawal symptoms.

So, today we have pickle soup with rice step by step recipe with photos  with is always popular among households and guests of HozOboz, but now we have a little novelty - white rice is replaced by red one. Everything else is just the standard solution for filling soups of this kind.

Ingredients for the soup:

• 800 grams of chicken fillet
• 400 grams of natural sausages
• 6 potatoes
• 2 carrots
• 2 onions
• 1 garlic (optional)
• 1 cup of red rice
• 6 pickled cucumbers
• 2 tomatoes
• 1 red bell pepper
• 100 ml of vegetable oil
• 1 tbsp. of sugar
• 1 tsp utsho-suneli
• 1 tbsp. hops-suneli
• 4 liters of water
• salt

Steeply step recipe for pickle soup with rice and cucumber

1. Prepare all the necessary pickle soup ingredeitns: chicken breast, milk sausages in a natural casing, red rice, pickled cucumbers, onions and garlic, carrots, potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, water, salt, sugar, vegetable oil and spices (utsho-suneli (so-called blue fenugreek) and hops-suneli).
   

   Spread on the table all the products you need for the preparation of pickle soup with red rice and cucumbers.

2. Boil the chicken breast, removing the foam.
   

   Boil chicken.

3. Peeled and washed potatoes should be diced and added the chicken broth, from which you should have removed ready fillets before.
   

   Dice potatoes and add them to the broth.

4. Wash red rice (some don’t do this) in cold water and add it to the broth.
   

   Wash the rice, put it in the broth.

5. Finely cut onions.
   

   Cut onions for the dressing.

6. Grate the carrots coarsely.
   

   Rub the carrots.

7. Sauté onions in vegetable oil until it gets light golden brown.
   

   In vegetable oil, sauté onions.

8. Add there some grated carrots.
   

   Add some grated carrots to the onion.

9. Now, it’s time to cut red sweet pepper in small pieces.
   

   Sweet pepper should be cut into pieces.

10. Slice tomatoes as well.
    

    Dice tomatoes now.

11. Cut natural sausage into circles.
    

    Then cut the sausages.

12. Cut the boiled chicken breast,.
    

    Cut chicken fillet finely.

13. Add the peppers, tomatoes, sausages, and chicken in saute, pour them with a small amount of broth.
    

    Sliced products should be combined with saute in a frying pan and filled with broth.

14. Dice the cucumbers finely and add them to the dressing.
    

    Cut the cucumber into cubes.

15. We need to use a mortar for grinding utsho-suneli.
    

    Utsho-suneli should be mashed in a mortar.

16. Add pounded utsho-suneli, hops-suneli and sugar to complete the filling composition of pickle soup.
    

    Add spices and sugar to the dressing.

17. The dressing is ready now. Optionally, you may add some pressed garlic and combine it with the rest of the filling.
    

    The dressing is almost ready!

18. Our pickle soup with rice and cucumbers is ready! Leave it for some time, it should cool down to a room temperature, and it’s ready to be served with sour cream and bread. Bon Appettie!
    

    Pickle is ready now, give it a rest before serving.

Health benefits of pickle soup

As with any first course, a good pickle soup satiate anyone who chooses him for the dinner. Do you want to get warm and energy boost? Choose a spicy meat or fish pickle soup! Rice is a source of silicon and calcium, and red rice contains more  of it than white one, so you can not go wrong by choosing a recipe with this ingredient!

Options and alternatives of pickle soup

If you add some herbs or replace onions with the leek, include cold cuts chicken hearts and gizzards, use ground coriander, juniper, and bay leaf as basic spices, then you’ll get a brand new taste. HozOboz hopes that the mentioned above pickle soup will be easily cooked with the help of recipe and photos that we provided for you. We’re looking forward to letters with your personal recipes and reviews! Cook with HozOboz! Enjoy new gastronomic experiences! Always yours, HozOboz

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