Pork Soup (Kharcho)

Steps

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  1. Wash the pork, clean it from fat and skins and cut it into pieces of medium size. Put the meat in a pan, add several circles of carrots, a small onion and several stems of parsley or cilantro. Fill the ingredients with two liters of cold water. Cover the pan with a lid, bring the broth to a boil, remove the foam with a skimming dish. Cook the broth for 30 minutes, then remove vegetables and greenery from the pan (we don’t need them anymore).
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  2. In the finished broth let’s put washed rice. Cover the pan with a lid and cook the soup on a low heat for 7-10 minutes.
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  3. Peel the second onion and cut it into small cubes.
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  4. Put the crushed onions in a frying pan with heated olive oil. Stir periodically and brown onions on a low heat until a light golden brown.
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  5. Cut the remaining carrots into small cubes.
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  6. Add crushed carrots to browned onions. Mix and continue to fry the ingredients together for another 3-4 minutes.
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  7. Finely cut the fresh tomato.
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  8. Add crushed tomatoes and tomato paste to browned vegetables. Stir periodically and simmer the ingredients on a low heat for 5 minutes.
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  9. When rice is almost ready, add a vegetable mixture to the homemade tomato soup.
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  10. Next, add salt, finely chopped greenery and spices to the soup.
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  11. To make pork soup, the recipe that I suggest you cook, more fragrant, add garlic cloves passed through the press.
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  12. Crush largely walnut kernels.
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  13. Add crushed walnuts to the soup.
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  14. Bring the kharcho to a boil, boil for 1-2 minutes, after which turn off the fire. Let's leave the soup to infuse for 10 minutes, then pour into the serving plates and serve.
  
  Bon Appetite!