Rassolnik is a dish of Russian cuisine, which is prepared from meat, cucumbers, cereals and vegetables. Its taste is sour and slightly salted; instead of meat, you can use fish or offal. There are many recipes for pickle, most of the options for this first dish are prepared with barley, but it can be replaced with rice.
Pick your recipe
You will need
- • 2.5 l of beef broth;
- • 4 potatoes;
- • 300 frozen honey mushrooms;
- • 1 onion;
- • 1 carrot;
- • 1 pickled cucumber;
- • ½ cup rice;
- • ½ cup cucumber pickle;
- • 2 tbsp tomato paste;
- • chopped greens;
- • vegetable oil for frying;
- • ground black pepper.
Instruction manual
1
This dish is prepared on beef or pork broth with the addition of mushrooms. Instead, you can add kidneys, smoked brisket or chicken to the pickle. I wash and clean the onions, potatoes and carrots, cut the potatoes into strips, onions into small cubes, and three carrots on a coarse grater. We wash the rice well under a stream of cold water, and cut the pickled cucumber into small slices. Pour vegetable oil into the pan and fry the onions and carrots.
2
Bring the broth for the pickle with rice to a boil, then add the mushrooms and cook over low heat, periodically removing the foam. In a pan, mix the slices of cucumber and tomato paste, fill this mixture with broth and simmer for 7 minutes. Then we fall asleep potatoes and rice, bring to a boil and cook over low heat until rice and potatoes are fully cooked.
3
When the vegetables are fully cooked, pour the brine into the pickle with rice, mix well and add black ground pepper to taste. Before serving, add finely chopped greens to the dish and infuse the soup for 10 minutes. Pickled cucumbers are necessary for pickle, salted and pickled are not suitable for such a dish. In no case can you add sharp seasonings to the pickle with rice, you also need to remember that it is not salted.