Simple hodgepodge recipes without cucumbers

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Today we will talk about hodgepodge. Yes, not quite simple, familiar to many housewives - but without one of the ingredients. Solyanka without cucumbers, according to some connoisseurs of the culinary arts, also has its right to exist. There may be several reasons for not introducing this important component - tasty salinity - into the composition. For example, intolerance to pickled cucumbers with allergies. Or a unique authentic recipe. In general, be that as it may, the recipe for hodgepodge without cucumber is for your attention in various variations!

A little about this dish

It is known that hodgepodge in the understanding of home cooks throughout the post-Soviet space is one of the varieties of soups. Its main, fundamental feature is the density and a fair amount of ingredients (in some recipes it reaches 20). In addition, this dish is very high in calories. Since the composition includes various kinds of sausages and fatty meat (sometimes lard with streaks). Add calories and other ingredients that are fried in vegetable oil (or even pork lard). Therefore, those who are going to lose weight or who are watching their own figure with might and main, this dish will not be to your taste. Well, we will try one of the options for hodgepodge without cucumbers.

The easiest recipe

We will need a couple of lemons, a can of pitted olives, a bag of tomato paste (50-80 grams), a set of smoked meats for making hodgepodge, a clove of garlic, two potatoes, spices - those that you like (set for meat dishes are fine). To dress the soup, we will use sour cream, it is better to take not too fat - 15 percent.

Regarding a set of sausages: if there is no ready-made one, we make it with our own hands. For this we take 150 grams of smoked sausages, the same amount of good boiled meat (for example, "Doctor's"), 100 grams of dry-cured sausage. You can optionally use smoked chicken wings, other aromatic smoked meats. By the way, lemons and olives will give the salinity acid in our hodgepodge without cucumbers, so you should not worry about this moment.

Cooking easy

Follow these instructions and your meal will be delicious and nutritious.

1. Cut smoked meats and boiled sausage into small cubes.
2. Drain the olives from the liquid from the jar and cut into circles.
3. Boil the potatoes in their skins until half cooked. Then peel and cut - also into cubes.
4. Heat the water in a three-liter saucepan to a boil and add all the ingredients prepared above.
5. Crush garlic and stir with tomato paste and a little water. Add coarsely chopped lemon and spices with s alt (according to personal preferences). Mix and add to the total mass in the pan. Bring to a boil, a couple of minutes - and turn off the heat. Do not cook for a long time - the sausage may fall apart.
6. Let the dish brew and pour the hodgepodge without cucumbers into portioned containers.

Flavor with sour cream, sprinkle with chopped herbs. Serve to the table.

Solyanka: recipe with sausage without cucumbers

Another recipe for this delicious and hearty dish is also not very difficult. For a five-liter container, you need to take: meat pork ribs and veal - 300 grams each, bacon, smoked sausages and salami - each ingredient 100-150 grams, a couple of medium-sized lemons, a couple of onions, a jar of pitted black olives, 100 grams of capers (pickled thorn buds Capparis), 100 grams of tomato paste (puree), spices and s alt. For dressing, we will use low-fat sour cream. And for decoration - greens (cilantro is a must, as well as parsley and dill).

Cooking easy

There is another recipe for hodgepodge, which is prepared like this:

1. Rinse and cut raw meat ingredients into pieces. Place in a pot of water and bring to a boil. Remove the foam and cook for about half an hour.
2. Cut lemons into half rings with peel. Olives - rings. Onion - chop (you can also use thin half rings - for symmetry).
3. Cut sausages into small cubes.
4. Introduce all prepared ingredients intoa pot with broth and boiled meat.
5. Fry the onion in vegetable oil. Add in the tomato paste and capers. Simmer for about 5 minutes, stirring with a wooden spatula.
6. Pour the resulting sauce into the total mass. Stirring, cook for another 5-10 minutes on the smallest fire. S alt and pepper. Let it brew for half an hour.

Before serving, pour in portions and season with sour cream. Sprinkle with chopped fragrant fresh herbs for decoration.