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Rassolnik Pickle Soup with Rice

The popular rassolnik pickle soup has many variations. Some hostesses prepare it with barley, others add buckwheat or rice. For soup base use meat on bone, beef or pork fillet, kidneys or by-products. In this recipe, I'll tell you how to make a pickle soup with rice and cucumbers. This recipe of pickle soup with rice I prepared on chicken broth. It turns out in delicious and fragrant first dish. In addition, sour cream, hot red pepper or green onions can be served.

Ingredients

75 min

Ingredients

Chicken thigh

1 pcs
Smoked brisket

100 g
Long-grain rice

2 tbsp
Potato

3 pcs
Pickled cucumbers

3 pcs
Carrot

1 pcs
Onion

1 pcs
Tomato sauce

2 tbsp
Olive oil

50 ml
Paprika

0.25 tsp
Khmeli-suneli

0.25 tsp
Bay leaf

2 pcs
Allspice

3 pcs
Dill

- to taste
Parsley

- to taste
Salt

- to taste

Steps

1. Wash the chicken thigh, transfer to a pan and pour with two liters of cold water. Cover the pan with a lid and bring the broth to boiling. Remove the foam by skimming dish and cook the broth for 40 minutes after boiling.

2. Remove meat from the ready chicken broth. Wash the potatoes, peel and cut with cubes. Add vegetables to the pickle soup with rice and pickled cucumbers, following the recipe.

3. Then add carefully washed rice to the broth.

4. Cut the smoked brisket with small cubes.

5. Put the crushed brisket in a deep frying pan with a small amount of vegetable oil. Stir periodically and fry pieces of brisket on low fire until golden.

6. Meanwhile, let’s prepare the vegetables. Peel onions, cut with small cubes. Wash carrots, peel and ground on a large grater.

7. Add onions to the fried smoked brisket. Stir and continue to fry the ingredients together for a few more minutes.

8. Then add grated carrots to the onion. Stir and continue to fry the ingredients together for 2-3 minutes.

9. The pickle soup, which recipe I offer you, cannot be cooked without pickled cucumbers. Cut them into small cubes.

10. When the vegetables in the frying pan become soft, let’s add crushed pickled cucumbers to them. Continue to fry the ingredients together on low fire.

11. After a few minutes, add tomato paste to vegetables and brisket and pour in frying pan 2 ladles of broth from a pan. Stir periodically and stew the mixture on low fire for 5-7 minutes.

12. When potatoes and rice are almost ready, add a mixture of vegetables and smoked brisket to the pickle soup.

13. At the end of the preparation add salt, seasonings and finely chopped fresh greenery to the pickle soup. Let the soup boil again, and then turn off the fire.

14. After 10 minutes, when the pickle soup infuses, pour the soup into deep plates. In portion add pieces of boiled chicken meat. As you can see, it is not difficult to prepare rassolnik pickle soup with rice!