Tyuria is one of the simplest national Russian dishes. Because of the simplicity of preparation and the basic ingredients of the prison, from time immemorial it was considered the food of the poor. However, the prison is still being prepared; there would be kvass and bread. This is a delicious lean meal.
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Sometimes in families, especially where there are grandparents, Nekrasov’s lines are heard:
"Eat the jail, Yasha!
No milk!"
Usually this happens when for some reason there are no pickles on the table, and you have to do with the simplest food. What kind of prison is this?
The origin of the word "prison"
If you look at the etymological dictionary, you will find that the word "tyuria" is native Russian and does not possess reliable information about its origin. Most likely, the word came from the verb "rub", that is, "grind, crumble."
If you try to follow the path of associations, the first word that comes to mind comes from the infant vocabulary: "bye-bye" - which means "nothing is gone."
Yes, turkish is a dish that can be prepared when almost nothing is left in the house. All that was needed was to crumble the bread, fill it with water - and take a bite to your health. This is the food of the poor since time immemorial.
In especially hungry times, they put quinoa in the jail - grass, which grows in abundance in vegetable gardens.
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Water-filled bread crumbs are too primitive. It is unlikely that anyone is doing such a meal today. However, leaving the main components - bread and liquid - you can dream up and diversify your table.
It is important to consider only that the prison is prepared immediately before meals. For the future, they never did it, and it’s not worth doing it.
One of the national Russian drinks is kvass. Here it is often used for the preparation of the prison. To make it tastier, not bread is put in kvass, but crackers toasted in advance. Add a little onion or green onion and a little vegetable oil. This is another simple recipe for turi, which came from the depths of centuries.
If you replace kvass with milk, but do not add onions and butter at all, you will get a children's prison. Dozens, if not hundreds of generations, grew up on such a dish.
But if you go back to kvass, add more greens, boiled potatoes, an egg, you get okroshka, the sister of turi. They ate these dishes always cold, and cooked, respectively, in the summer.
The okroshka on the peasant table was often attended by lenten, since meat rarely happened in summer.
Prison can be not only with onions. It is not a sin to add any vegetables to it: cucumbers, radishes, horseradish, radishes, garlic.
If you go further, you can cook a jar based on tomato juice. The Italians have a similar dish. It is called "gazpacho." Finely chopped and add to the tomato juice diced black bread, celery root, garlic. Of course, you need to salt and pour olive oil. If desired, you can use pepper or some other spices.
Tyuria is an excellent food during fasting: simple, affordable and, if you do not skimp on the components, then it is quite high-calorie.
It's funny, but the jail is served in some fairly expensive restaurants of Russian cuisine. Of course, there is not bread from the store, but specially prepared crackers, probably something else. But a prison still remains a prison - a simple, unpretentious dish.
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