A variety of bozbash. The recipe for a delicious soup

Bozbash is a unique soup. He is brewed by Azerbaijanis and Armenians, and today the recipe of this dish became known on the whole planet. Initially, this soup was cooked exclusively with the use of lamb. However, today the ingredients can be very different, and the broth is made not only on meat, but even on fish.

Bozbash. Traditional Recipe

To make soup on mutton broth, a half kilogram of meat, 50 grams of fat (by the way, too, mutton), 2 liters of ordinary, pure water, green peas (400 g), half a kilogram of potatoes, 400 grams of apples, the same onions, 150 grams of tomatoes, Sprigs of parsley, chili and salt. Lamb is cut into small pieces, which are necessarily fried in fat directly in a saucepan, where soup will be cooked. The meat is poured into water and brought to a boil. After removing the foam, on a low fire the broth is continued to cook for 40 minutes.

In a separate saucepan, green peas are brewed , which is then wiped through a sieve. Puree is added to the mutton broth. Onions are very finely shredded and are fattened. As soon as he gets flushed, he is also sent to the soup.

The apples are cleaned of excess peel. Also come with tomatoes, scalding them with boiling water. Seeds are removed and in apples, and in tomatoes. All vegetables and apples are crushed into cubes and sent to cook in soup. After a quarter of an hour, finely chopped chilli and salt are sent to the bozbash. In this form, the soup should stand, serve a dish on the table, you can sprinkle it very richly with greens from above.

Balyk-bozbash. Recipe for fish

It is very tasty to get a bozbash, if according to the Azerbaijani tradition, cook it on a fish broth. It takes a half kilogram of fish, 2 potatoes, and 3 more onions, 5 pieces of plum, a spoonful of pomegranate juice, black pepper, a spoon of chopped parsley. Fish is cut into large portions and poured with pomegranate juice. In this form, she needs to brew for about 10 minutes.

Then a very deep clay bowl with a wide upper edge is taken. There, neat layers stacked chopped onions, then slices of potatoes, fish in juice, halves of plum, then once again onions and potatoes, and on top everything is peppered with pepper and herbs. All this is salted and put in a pot, where there is already a third of boiling water. The lid is covered and on low heat is cooked for about 5 hours. Approximately in the middle of the "path" you can pour water. As soon as the cooking process comes to an end, a fragrant broth should appear in the bowl and the soup will be ready.

Kfta-Bozbash

This dish is a beef soup made from beef. To make it, you need to take half a kilogram of meat, a bulb, an egg, a little rice and peas (literally a handful), potatoes, tomato paste, cherry plum and mint (better dried). Peas should be soaked for the whole night, and before cooking soup it should be cooked.

Separately, meat and onions are passed through the meat grinder. In the minced meat, add the egg and add mint, rice, salt and pepper. From this mass make small balls-meatballs. Plait in each ball put plum. This meat product is put in boiling water and boiled for an hour, gradually removing the foam. Then potatoes are added there. A tomato paste gets there almost before the end of the preparation of soup bozbash. The recipe recommends adding a little dried mint for flavor before serving.

Bozbash. Recipe for Etchmiadzin

Another recipe for the original and unusual soup. It is cooked again from lamb. You need half a kilogram of tenderloin, 2 bulbs, eggplant, string beans, bambino, potatoes and tomatoes. Meat is cooked in salted water. Then it should be got, cut into pieces and fried, until it is finally cooked. The frying takes place in a saucepan, where the already filtered meat broth is added .

Separated in a frying pan, crushed onions are parsed. He is put in soup. There is also sliced potatoes, as well as all other vegetables, except tomatoes. They are put into the bozbash for 10-15 minutes until the end of cooking.

Delicious soup from the Caucasus mountains will not leave anyone indifferent. Moreover, with its help you can diversify your diet.