How long to cook pickle?

It takes 5 hours to prepare the pickle. Clean time in the kitchen is 1 hour.

How to cook pickle

Cooking Products

Beef on the bone – 700 grams

Perlovka – 0,7 glasses

Pickled cucumbers – 5 small

Cucumber pickle – 2 cups

Potato – 5 medium potatoes

Onions – 2 heads

Carrots – 2 pieces

Sunflower oil – 2 tablespoons

Lavrushka – 2 leaves

Black peppercorns – 5 pieces

Salt – 1 tablespoon

How to cook pickle

1. Measure out 0,7 cups of pearl barley.

2. Pour pearl barley into a bowl, rinse to clean water and cover with cold water for 4-5 hours.

3. Meat, if frozen, defrost and wash.

4. Pour 5 liters of cold water into a 3-liter saucepan, place the meat and add a tablespoon of salt.

5. Put the saucepan on the fire and wait until it boils. As soon as the water boils, watch out for the appearance of foam – it must be removed with a slotted spoon.

6. Boil the broth for pickle for 1,5 hours over low heat with low boiling, covering with a lid. Then remove the beef from the broth.

7. Cool the beef slightly, separate the meat from the bone and cut into pieces. Strain the broth and return to the pan, put the chopped meat in the broth for the pickle.

8. Pour in the pearl barley soaked and washed then, and put on a quiet fire.

9. Peel the onions and carrots, finely chop the onion, rub the carrots on a coarse grater. Heat a frying pan, pour in oil, put onion and fry for 5 minutes over medium heat without a lid.

10. Then add the carrots to the onion and fry for another 5 minutes.

11. Put the cucumbers on a board, cut into thin strips or rub on a coarse grater. Add cucumbers to a skillet with onions and carrots, pour in 3 tablespoons of cucumber pickle and simmer under a lid over low heat for 5 minutes.

12. Pour 1 cup of brine into the broth.

13. Peel the potatoes, cut into cubes with a side of 1,5 centimeters, put in the broth.

14. After 5 minutes after boiling the water again, put the frying in the pickle, add 1 bay leaf.

15. Cook the pickle for another 10 minutes, add salt (pouring in the brine) and pepper to taste. Boil for a couple more minutes. Your pickle is ready!

How to cook a delicious pickle

How long barley to put

The standard proportions of a pickle of medium density are 1/1 cup for 7 liter of a saucepan, designed for a volume of 250 milliliters. A 3-liter saucepan requires slightly less than half a glass of pearl barley. For a saucepan of a pickle 5 liters – 0,7 cups. If you like broth soup, use one-third less.

When to add cucumbers and pickle

All chopped or grated cucumbers are put in a frying, at the end of the cooking of which a few tablespoons of brine are poured. The rest of the brine is poured directly into the broth before laying the potatoes. The standard proportion is 1/1 cup of brine for 5 liter of water.

Frying for pickle

For those who do not like fried onions in soup, two halves of an onion can be added to the pickle broth. After about 30 minutes, the onion will cook and transfer all its taste to the broth, then you can take it out of the broth (and discard it). At the stage of cooking frying, 1 tablespoon of sour cream can be added to onions, carrots and cucumbers. Then the pickle turns out to be more fat and rich. To taste, you can add 1 finely chopped tomato to the frying. In the soup itself, you can add capers and olives cut into circles or in half (at the stage of adding potatoes). If the cucumbers are tough, peel them and grate them on a coarse grater, or cut them into thin slices. To make the potatoes in pickle soft, it is important to add frying with pickles to the broth 15-20 minutes after adding the potatoes.

Seasonings

Italian spices are great for pickle. Pickle spices – basil, turmeric, fennel, oregano. Since brine and pickles are added to the pickle, you need to be very careful when adding salt.

Meat

The meat on the bone in the pickle is used to make the pickle broth and give the broth an original flavor.

How to serve pickle

The pickle should be served with sour cream (which can be pre-ground with the yolks of chicken eggs) and fresh herbs – dill or parsley. To taste, chopped garlic and celery are added to the pickle.

How to make pickle broth transparent

To make the pickle broth transparent, it is worth boiling the barley separately – then rinse and only then add to the soup. When cooking broth from pickle, it is also necessary to regularly remove the resulting foam using a slotted spoon or a tablespoon.

How to cook pickle faster

– If you want to save time on soaking the barley, you can add it at the stage of adding meat to the water – and cook with the meat. But the consistency of the barley will be slightly rougher than in the classic recipe. Or you can use barley in sachets for pickle. At the same time, it is important not to overdo it with the time of soaking the pearl barley – after 12 hours of soaking, the pearl barley begins to deteriorate.

– In the recipe, beef can be replaced with chicken meat, you can also use offal (kidneys and offal), and barley can be replaced with rice or millet. Then the cooking time of the ingredients will accordingly decrease – boil broth for pickle on chicken for 40 minutes, and cook rice or millet in pickle for 20 minutes.

The sequence of adding products to the pickle

1. Meat.

2. Perlovka.

3. Brine.

4. Potato.

5. Roasting.

How long to cook foods in pickle

1. Meat – 1,5 hours.

2. Barley barley after 4 hours of soaking – half an hour.

3. Potatoes – 15 minutes.

4. Frying – 5 minutes; pickled cucumbers, if not added to the frying, add 7 minutes before the end of cooking.

About the history of pickle

– Rassolnik is a dish of Russian cuisine. It has been known in Russia since the 15th century and was called kalya. Kalya was cooked in cucumber brine with the addition of meat or fish.

The cost of pickle products

The cost of products is from 450 rubles / 5 liters of pickle (on average in Moscow for July 2019).

Energy value of pickle

– The calorie content of pickle is 47 kcal / 100 grams.

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