How long to cook kulesh?
40 minutes.
How to cook kulesh
Products
Pork belly – 500 grams
Potatoes – 5 pieces
Onions – 2 pieces
Carrots – 1 piece
Millet – two-thirds of a glass
Bay leaf – 2 pieces
Dill – 1 bunch
Parsley – 1 bunch
Salt – 2 teaspoons
Water – 2,5 liters
Cooking kulesh
1. Cut 500 grams of pork belly into small cubes.
2. Smallly chop 2 onions, 1 carrot, 5 potatoes.
3. Pour two-thirds of a glass of millet into a deep bowl.
4. Rinse the millet: pour the groats with water, stir with a spoon, carefully drain the water, repeat 4 times.
5. Chop 1 bunch of dill and parsley.
6. Pour 2,5 liters of water into a saucepan, put on medium heat, bring water to a boil.
7. Pour millet into boiling water, cook for 10 minutes.
8. Add potatoes and carrots, cook for 10 minutes.
9. Put the frying pan on medium heat and heat for 1 minute.
10. Put the brisket cubes in a skillet, fry for 7 minutes over medium heat, stirring occasionally.
11. Add the onion to the pan and fry for 5 minutes.
12. Put onion with cracklings (fried brisket pieces) in a saucepan with millet and potatoes.
13. Add 2 teaspoons of salt, 2 lavrushka leaves, cook for 5 minutes.
14. At the very end of cooking, add chopped herbs to the pan.
Let the kuleshu stand for 10 minutes and serve.
Delicious facts
– Kulesh is a dish of our country cuisine. This is a thick soup that replaces the first and second courses.
– Experts in tradition cook millet separately and add it to the rest of the products at the very end of cooking, and the kulesh itself is cooked in a cauldron over a fire.
– Traditionally, pork lard (fat brisket) is used for kulesha, but today recipes for kulesha with chicken breast, beef and even sausages are no less popular.
– The calorie content of the dish is about 450 kcal / 100 grams.
– The average cost of food for July 2019 in Moscow for making kulesh is from 280 rubles (per our recipe).
– Store the kulesh in the refrigerator for 72 hours.
– To cook lean kolyosh, replace meat with mushrooms. To avoid losing nutritional value, add 1 extra carrot to the soup and double the amount of oil.
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