The world famous Georgian dish - kharcho - is a bright, very satisfying, full-bodied dish with a specific taste and aroma that everyone likes, without exception.
Today there are so many recipes for kharcho soup that everyone can cook this fragrant dish in a matter of minutes from the products available at home. Consider the simplest and fastest recipes.
Kharcho soup: simple recipes - general principles of preparation
They take any meat for making kharcho, the main thing is that the pieces are sufficiently fat: lamb, chicken, pork, beef. Initially, saturated broth is cooked, after which washed rice is put.
Besides rice and meat, tomatoes (fresh or canned) or tomato-based pasta, onions, garlic, spices, herbs, sometimes walnuts, carrots, and other products are put in kharcho. Hearty vegetables, such as potatoes, are usually not added to kharcho; it is already quite saturated.
Of the spices, suneli hops, uzo, adjika, a mixture of peppers, and cherry plum sauces are ideally suited. Of greens, cilantro is more often used, less often they put parsley.
1. Kharcho soup: a simple recipe with pumpkin
Ingredients:
• five hundred grams of beef meat;
• a glass of white rice;
• 300 grams of pumpkin;
• two liters of water for the broth;
• onion;
• three medium-sized tomatoes;
• garlic;
• tomato juice;
• vegetable oil;
• spices (utskho and sunli hops);
• fresh herbs;
• salt.
Cooking process:
1. Cook the meat broth. Salt, focusing on taste sensations.
2. Pour white rice into the broth. Cook for twenty minutes.
3. Onion cut into transparent half rings, fry in a pan.
4. Add the pumpkin, cut into small cubes, to the sauté.
5. Pour a couple of soup ladles into the pan. Stew until the squash is soft.
6. Add boiled rice, pumpkin and onion, chopped tomatoes. Mix well. Salt, pepper. Cook for five minutes. Turn off the fire.
7. Add greens and garlic to the soup, mix.
8. Insist soup for no more than half an hour.
2. Kharcho soup: a simple Georgian recipe
Ingredients:
• beef brisket (500 grams);
• two and a half liters of water;
• half a glass of rice;
• onion;
• one bell pepper;
• several medium-sized tomatoes (for natural tomato paste);
• garlic;
• cooking oil;
• a tablespoon of salt;
• a pinch of pepper;
• several bay leaves;
• a small amount of suneli hop;
• tkemali;
• favorite greens.
Cooking process:
1. Cook the regular beef broth. To improve the taste, regularly remove the foam. Reduce the heat to a minimum. Cook for about half an hour.
2. Rinse the rice and leave to swell in cold water.
3. Peel, wash the onion, cut into small cubes.
4. Wash sweet bell pepper, peel and chop.
5. The washed tomatoes, peeled, cut as small as possible.
6. Heat a frying pan or a small cauldron, pour vegetable oil into it, put onions and lightly fry.
7. Add bell peppers and tomatoes or tomato paste. Stew, stirring, for a couple of minutes.
8. Add soaked rice, frying to the meat. Cook the soup until cooked for about twenty minutes over low heat under a lid.
9. Wash the greens, chop finely.
10. Peel the garlic, chop the press.
11. A few minutes before cooking, salt the soup, pour pepper. Put bay leaf, finely chopped garlic, tkemali sauce, suneli hops, herbs.
3. Kharcho soup: a simple recipe for beef with tomatoes
Ingredients:
• beef meat;
• bow;
• White rice;
• half a kilogram of tomatoes;
• a pair of garlic cloves;
• allspice black peas;
• a couple of teaspoons of suneli hops;
• half a red capsicum or a teaspoon of ground red pepper;
• one and a half teaspoons of salt;
• parsley, cilantro and dill.
Cooking process:
1. Cut the beef into small portions. Remove bones, veins. Wash the meat, cover with cold water, put on the stove, turning on medium heat. Remove foam from water. Cook the beef half-cooked for a little over half an hour.
2. Scalp fresh tomatoes with boiled water, peel. Finely chop or chop the tomatoes until mashed.
3. Peel the onion, chop finely.
4. Put chopped onions in a pan. Toast.
5. Remove the beef from the meat broth. Transfer the meat to the onion. Stew with a lid for about fifteen minutes.
6. Strain the broth.
7. Put prepared tomatoes for meat with onions. Cook for about ten minutes. Pour strained meat broth.
8. Put rice in the boiling broth. Cook for 20 minutes.
9. Wash and chop greens, garlic.
10. At the very end of cooking, put in the dish crushed garlic, suneli hops, chopped herbs, hot pepper, allspice, bay leaf. Salt.
4. Kharcho soup: a simple recipe for chicken and nuts
Ingredients:
• onion;
• hen;
• one and a half tablespoons of wheat flour;
• 130 grams of walnuts;
• four cloves of garlic;
• a couple of tablespoons of cilantro;
• hops suneli;
• black ground pepper, salt.
Cooking process:
1. Prepare and rinse the chicken. Cut the tail, the extreme part of the wings, cut the rest into small pieces. Pour 2-2.5 liters of cold water. Boil the bird until cooked.
2. In a saucepan, stew chopped onions with fat removed from the meat broth. Add boiled chicken. Simmer for fifteen minutes, remembering to stir occasionally.
3. Add the wheat flour.
4. Pour in the broth after five minutes. Cook ten, maybe a little more, minutes.
5. Add tkemali or tomatoes. Bring to a boil.
6. Season the soup with crushed nuts, chopped garlic, bay leaves, suneli hops, cilantro, salt. Kharcho is ready.
5. Kharcho soup: a simple recipe with prunes
Ingredients:
• black ground pepper (red can also be used);
• 200 grams of tomato paste;
• onion;
• 0.3 cups of rice;
• prunes;
• meat (beef with pork is ideal);
• garlic (you can safely take up to ten cloves);
• hops suneli;
• adjika.
Cooking process:
1. Cut the meat into small pieces. Put in cold water. Cook the meat for one hour over low heat, regularly removing foam.
2. Cut the prunes into small slices.
3. Chop the onion as small as possible. Fry it in vegetable or other oil until golden.
4. Add tomato paste. Fry, stirring, already rosy onion in tomato paste.
5. After an hour, put prunes on the meat. Cook for about twenty minutes.
6. Pour a third cup of rice into the soup. Cook.
7. Finely chop the garlic and onion.
8. After 15 minutes add onion, garlic, black and red pepper, adjika, herbs, salt. Shuffle.
9. Boil the soup for five minutes. Add salt again if necessary.
10. Let the soup brew for about half an hour.
6. Kharcho soup: a simple recipe with white wine
Ingredients:
• 100 grams of rice;
• 500 grams of mutton;
• two potatoes;
• onion;
• one carrot;
• five cloves of garlic;
• 100 grams of tomatoes in their own juice;
• a tablespoon of vegetable oil;
• two tablespoons of dry white wine;
• red hot pepper;
• freshly ground pepper mixture;
• ground coriander;
• salt.
Cooking process:
1. Rinse the lamb well, dry it. Coarsely chop the meat. Fry in vegetable oil on all sides over high heat for five minutes.
2. Onions, peel the carrots, chop finely. Add to the meat. Sauté for about five minutes.
3. Pour dry white wine, mix.
4. Add a mixture of peppers, red hot peppers, coriander.
5. Add salt, spices to the meat.
6. Put the tomatoes in their own juice.
7. Mix all ingredients, simmer for about 10 minutes.
8. Pour a couple of liters of boiled water. Simmer the soup for half an hour.
9. Take one hundred grams of rice. Rinse. Soak for half an hour.
10. After 30 minutes, peel and chop the potatoes. Add to broth.
11. Next, add soaked rice.
12. Cook for about half an hour. Rice should boil.
13. Finely chop the cilantro and garlic. Add to kharcho.
14. Turn off the fire. Infuse kharcho for about 10 minutes. Serve hot.
Kharcho soup: a simple recipe - tricks and tips
• Cilantro - greens, which must be present in traditional kharcho soup. But because of its specific taste and smell, not everyone likes it. Therefore, it is not necessary to put this ingredient in a dish. You can replace any other greens with cilantro to taste, and serve it separately, for example, in crushed form in a bowl.
• Spices in kharcho open better if kharcho after cooking insist 15-17 minutes. It doesn’t make sense any longer, otherwise the rice may break up.
• Also, because of the properties of rice, swelling should not be prepared for the future; this dish is delicious in freshly prepared form.
• If you do not like spicy dishes or if you are going to treat children with soup, do not put garlic and chili in kharcho. Feel free to replace these spices with paprika, curry, herbs. Adjika or garlic cut into slices, you can submit separately.
• Cooked garlic is not very tasty, and the aroma of the dish turns out to be specific, so do not cook this ingredient for a long time, it is better to add it at the end of cooking or in an already prepared dish.
• Choose round or long varieties of rice. Steamed and crushed cereals are not suitable for kharcho.
• Due to the fact that the preparation of kharcho soup does not imply a preliminary steaming, it is better to use non-lean meats. For example, a tenderloin with layers of fat, chicken, meat on the bone.
