The most famous soup: a recipe for Georgian kharcho

Soup-harcho is one of the most popular dishes of Soviet cooking. It was an indispensable attribute of catering points and elite restaurants. They let out soup even in the form of semi-finished products in sachets. To prepare the first, you just had to throw the contents into boiling water and add potatoes. By the way, such fast food dishes in supermarkets are found now. Probably, very few people know that the famous soup belongs to the Georgian cuisine.

Common soup-harcho

What is the traditional harko recipe? In Georgian cook it without meat or on a pre-cooked and strained mutton broth. Pieces of meat are put in a bowl, then poured with liquid contents. The soup is prepared as follows: 3 large onions should be chopped and put out in butter until golden. Do this in a saucepan, in which the dish will be cooked further. Then it is added one and a half liters of boiling water or broth. Let the base boil. Next, a recipe for harcho in Georgian suggests the introduction of the main product - vermicelli or rice. If the soup is brewed with cereals, it is desirable to soak it in the evening, so that it quickly reached the ready. Twenty minutes later, spices are presented in the dish - green coriander, parsley (finely ground), sprouted in a mortar or garlic, garlic, hot pepper (ground or melenko chopped), special spices (suneli). The latter (they are called hops-suneli) are placed in the event that you strictly follow the Georgian hacho recipe. And, of course, the dish is salted to taste. And still put divided on small slices of lavash, only sour. If there is none, you can replace it by putting in a pan 50-100 grams of tomato paste.

After 10-15 minutes after this, the pan can be removed from the fire. Give the soup to stand under the lid for five minutes, then you can pour on the plates. When serving, sprinkle with chopped greens. In order to prepare a dish, the recipe kharcho in Georgian requires such ingredients: onions - 250-300 grams, oils - 45-50 grams, tomatoes - 50-100 grams, rice a little less than a glass or vermicelli - 1 glass. Other components to taste.

Harcho with nuts

When you master the classic version, you can begin to explore another, more original. How do you like the nut-soup-harcho in Georgian? The recipe is slightly more complicated than the previous one, but it is also quite affordable. Ingredients: onions - 250 grams (several large heads or medium size), butter - 60-70 grams, peeled walnuts - 100-120 grams, tomatoes - 450-500 grams, coriander - 3-4 sprigs, rice - 100 grams , Garlic, herbs, spices, salt - all to taste.

At first, the onion is cut and pouced in a pan. Only it must not be forgotten to interfere so that it does not burn out. Cease nuts, garlic, coriander, chilli, mix everything. Add hot water (broth), about 7-8 glasses. Mix again and pour into a saucepan with onions. Pour rice (or thin noodles, vermicelli), add salt and put on medium heat. Tomatoes are served with boiling water, skin is removed from them. The flesh must be finely chopped, fumigated and rubed to a consistency of mashed potatoes. In general, tomatoes are widely used by Georgian cuisine. Recipes soup-kharcho, whatever they are, necessarily include this ingredient. So, tomato puree must be stewed separately, until the excess liquid evaporates, and then put in soup. Let everything boil, then add parsley and cilantro and take it off the fire - the dish is ready. Try - if not enough acuity, pour the ground pepper, salt. You can serve soup with sour cream and toasted bread.

Bon Appetit!