Russian Cabbage Soup (Shchi)

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  1. At first, prepare bouillon for soup. Clean chicken skeleton and pour with cold purified water. Cover a pan with a cap and put on fire. Take off foam before full boiling of bouillon with skimmer. Boil it for 30 minutes and then take chicken out.
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  2. Sour sauerkraut from the pickle and cut.
  
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  3. Add sauerkraut into prepared chicken bouillon. Boil it in a slow fire for 25 minutes.
  
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  4. Clean potatoes, clean them from peels and cut at cubes.
  
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  5. When sauerkraut is soft, add cut potatoes in a pan.
  
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  6. Clear onion from husks and cut at cubes.
  
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  7. Fry cut onion in vegetable oil for a couple of minutes.
  
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  8. While frying onion, clean carrot and grate on a large grater.
  
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  9. Add it to onion while mixing vegetables and continue passing them on a slow fire until soft.
  
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  10. Then add onion with carrot in a pan with soup.
  
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  11. When all vegetables are boiled and soft, add bay leaf, sweet pepper and finely chopped dill. Salt the dish and add spices to taste.
  
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  12. Let soup to boil and turn of the fire. we will serve cabbage soup hot and with a slice of fresh bread. You can add pieces of boiled chicken fillet, half of chicken or quail egg or sour cream in every portion.
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  13. Bon appetit!