Cook sorrel for 3-5 minutes, while all its charm will be preserved. When adding spices, it is important to take into account that a large amount of them will muffle the delicate taste of sorrel.
Simple Sorrel Soup Recipe
Products for making sorrel soup
Fresh sorrel – 300 grams (1 large bunch)
Potatoes – 3 medium-sized potatoes
Bow – 1 head
Tomato – 2 medium-sized or 8 cherry tomatoes
Chicken eggs – 2 pieces
Greens and spices – to taste.
Chicken breast with skin – 1 piece (about 1 kilogram).
Sorrel soup recipe
Cook the chicken for 20 minutes in 4 liters of water, remove, chop and return. Peel and cut the potatoes into small cubes, cook in a soup pot for 10 minutes. Add onion, chopped in half rings, (or chopped) and chopped tomatoes (just cut cherry in half), cook for 3 minutes. Add 2 mixed (yolks with whites) eggs, slowly pour into a saucepan in a thin stream. Add hand-torn sorrel. Cook for another 3 minutes, season, salt and let it brew for 3-5 minutes. Serve with sour cream and parsley.
Foods are sized for a 5 liter saucepan
How to salt sorrel
Products
For every 100 grams of sorrel – 10 grams of salt.
Cooking salted sorrel for the winter
1. Cut off the sorrel stalks, rinse the leaves thoroughly under cold water, dry, and finely chop.
2. Sterilize the jars, dry thoroughly.
3. Stir the sorrel with salt, place, tamp, in glass jars and roll up the lids.
The benefits and calorie content of sorrel
– Fresh sorrel contains very many vitamins – carotene (vitamin A), B1, B2, ascorbic acid (vitamin C), E, K, PP and important for the human body magnesium, iron, sodium, nickel, strontium, fluorine, zinc, copper.
– In folk medicine sorrel is considered a hemostatic, blood-purifying, antiscorbutic, pain reliever. Sorrel is also used to treat colitis, enterocolitis, anemia, and back pain.
– Calorie value fresh sorrel – 19 calories. The calorie content of boiled sorrel is 15 calories.
– Price sorrel in season (May-June) – from 50 rubles / 100 grams, in winter – from 100 rubles / 100 grams (on average in Moscow for June 2020).