How to cook rassolnik without pearl barley?

Each landlady always has her own signature recipe for the first dish. Someone prefers borsch, someone likes soup from sauerkraut, someone likes soups with pasta. But one of the most popular dishes is rassolnik. This soup is prepared using salted cucumbers and pickle, hence the name. But this is often used for preparation. But if you do not like it in the soup, you can always prepare a pickle without a barley. We offer several options for this dish.

Rassolnik with rice

To prepare rassolnik used different types of meat: chicken, pork, beef, offal. The broth must necessarily be rich. Each hostess prepares soups in different ways: someone puts out the vegetables separately from each other, someone throws the broth all at once. But experts say that a pickle without a pearl bar requires a certain sequence of actions. Let's understand.

Necessary ingredients:

• Meat (at your choice, but better with a bone) - 500 grams;
• Onion - one head;
• Potatoes - 5-7 pieces;
• Carrots - one piece;
• 3-4 cloves of garlic;
• Half a glass of rice;
• Several large salted cucumbers;
• Cucumber pickle - one glass;
• Salt, pepper and spices (to taste);
• Parsley or dill.

Preparation of broth and preparation of main ingredients

If possible, the broth for pickle is better to cook from several types of meat, but, of course, you can boil a rassolnik without meat with pearl barley or rice. Such a soup will be less rich, but also less fatty, hence, caloric. This option is suitable for those who watch their weight or sit on a strict diet.

In our recipe, we will use meat. Brew broth should be for an hour, periodically removing the formed foam. Half an hour just cook meat, and then in the broth you can add the roots (carrots, celery, onions) and spices (salt, bell pepper).

After the broth is ready, it must be filtered and poured into a saucepan again. Meat, when it will cool down, dismantle, separate from the bones and cut into small pieces.

Now prepare the main ingredients. Carrots should be grated on a large grater, the same should be done with salted cucumbers. Onions cut into smaller, greens - larger. Experienced housewives say that if you decide to cook a pickle without a pearl barley, then it is better to add more potatoes to the dish. It will need to be cleaned and cut into large cubes.

Assembling the rassolnik

Now we proceed to "assemble" the soup. In the broth add the potatoes and cook for ten or fifteen minutes, until it becomes soft. In the meantime, we are refueling the pickle. Carrots and onions are fried on a small amount of vegetable oil. In the frying, you can add one third of the grated cucumber.

After the potatoes have been cooked, add the washed rice to the pickle without a pearl barley. We cook for another ten minutes. When the main ingredients are ready, you can add refueling to them. At the final stage of cooking, add the remaining cucumbers and pour a glass of cucumber brine. Let's sink soup on low heat for a couple of minutes, turn off the stove.

Rassolnik recommended to serve hot, although in a cold form this first dish is very tasty. When serving in a bowl, add a little fresh greens and chopped garlic.

Lenten rassolnik without meat and pearl barley

If you decide to cook some light soup, we advise you to prepare a pickle without meat and pearl barley. The cooking time of the dish will be reduced by an order of magnitude, because you do not have to wait for the meat products to cook.

Required products:

• Potatoes - 5-6 pieces;
• Onion - one piece;
• Carrots - one piece;
• Garlic - a pair of denticles;
• A teaspoon of butter;
• Pickle - glass;
• Cabbage - half a small head;
• Pickled cucumbers - three or four pieces;
• Vegetable oil for frying - a couple tablespoons;
• greenery;
• Salt, spices, bay leaf and pepper (if desired, to taste).

Cooking process

We peel the potatoes and cut them into large cubes. Since we will not have meat, rice, or barley in the soup, the main ingredients should be visible. We put the potatoes to boil. Do not forget to take off periodically the foam that formed during cooking.

While the potatoes are brewed, we prepare a standard refueling, as for any other soup. Grated carrots mixed on a large grater in a frying pan with finely chopped onion, add a little vegetable oil and fry until the transparency of the onions.

Marinated cucumbers should be cut in the same way as potatoes in large cubes. Pour brine into a separate mug. When the potatoes are almost ready, we add cabbage to the soup. We cook another fifteen minutes. Then pour out the dressing and pour in a glass of cucumber brine. At the final stage of cooking, we add salted cucumbers to the pickle without meat and meat .

In a separate bowl, mix the butter (soft melted) with chopped garlic and greens. When all the ingredients are ready, turn off the fire under the pot, add a mixture of butter and garlic and cover with a lid. Let rassolnik a little "come."

Harvesting "Rassolnik for the winter"

If you are a lover of rassolnikov, but there is not enough time for cooking, then we advise you to pay attention to the following recipe. Rassolnik for the winter without a pearl barley - a good find for any busy housewife. Soup stock significantly save time. Do it once in the summer, then you will not know the hassle in the winter.

Ingredients:

• Cucumbers - two kilograms;
• Tomatoes - one and a half kilograms;
• One kilogram of carrots;
• 200 grams of onions;
• 300 grams of rice or pearl barley (you can and without cereals);
• One hundred grams of sugar;
• One hundred grams of table salt;
• Two tablespoons of table vinegar (9%);
• 250 grams of vegetable oil.

Cooking process

All vegetables should be cut arbitrarily - someone more like big cubes, someone has small brusochki. Carrots are better to grate. Prepared vegetables put in a large wide pan. Take a little more dishes, let there be a stock. It will be so easy to mix vegetables when cooking.

We add salt, pepper, vegetable oil to the billet. Cook vegetables for ten to twenty minutes, periodically mixing ingredients. When they are almost ready, add two spoons of vinegar and cook for another couple of minutes.

If you decide to make a billet with rice or pearl barley, then the groats should be welded separately. Add it should be on a par with vinegar, at the very end of cooking vegetables.

While the preparation is being prepared, wash with soda and sterilize the jars. Mistresses are advised to use small cans ("at one time") with a capacity of 0.5 liters. We spread the vegetables in the containers and roll the lids with the key. We put it in a dark place, wrap it around and wait until it cools down. After that, you can remove them for storage in a pantry or cellar.

In winter, you will only have to cook broth, cook potatoes and add to the soup the stock. Rassolnik without a pearl barley (the recipe with the photo you can see in our article) will be an excellent alternative to bored cabbage soup and borsch.

A few secrets

The taste of the rassolnik will directly depend on the taste of the cucumbers that you use. If the cucumbers are too acidic, then the soup will turn sour. If cucumbers are very salty, then we advise not to add brine at the end of cooking. Otherwise the soup will turn out to be salted.

If you decide to prepare a pickle without a barley, the recipe of which we described above, then try not to add more salt to the broth. Remember that later you will also add salty cucumbers and the same salted brine to the soup. Try the dish when it already "comes", when all the ingredients will give their taste. Only in this case you can accurately determine whether it is salty or not.

Remove the skin from the cucumber. Many children do not like rassolnik not because of the taste of the unusual barley, namely because of the hard taste of cucumber peel.

Bow for broth better not chop finely. Of course, the sieve will do its job. But if you do not intend to strain the broth, and boiled onions in your family do not favor, it is better to add it whole or half. Experienced housewives advise to make a few punctures in the bulb, so that it gives more juice, but it does not fall apart during cooking.