Shchi without potatoes: cooking recipes

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

Schi is one of the traditional Russian dishes, which is usually cooked with fresh or sauerkraut, less often with sorrel or nettle. Most often, potatoes are put in the dish, but this was not always accepted. Classical Russian cabbage soup was cooked without it, you can see this if you find old recipes in which a full set of products includes: cabbage, meat (less often mushrooms or fish), roots, spices and sour dressing (brine, Antonov apples, sour cream). True, sometimes they added turnips or turnips. Thus, cooking cabbage soup without potatoes is quite normal, and it turns out no worse. Check out the recipes!

Classic daily cabbage soup

These cabbage soup is cooked with meat and sauerkraut, the amount of which depends on the desired density. Do not put potatoes in them. For 400 g of sauerkraut you will need the following ingredients:

• 500 g beef with bone;
• three liters of water;
• two onions;
• twocarrots;
• two bay leaves;
• celery or parsley root;
• four black peppercorns;
• sour cream for serving;
• s alt.

Cooking cabbage soup without potatoes:

1. Wipe the meat, scrape, put in a saucepan with a thick bottom, cover with water, add one whole onion, celery root, one carrot.
2. When the water boils, reduce the gas and cook for 2-2.5 hours. Remove foam periodically. Half an hour before the end of cooking the broth, put pepper and bay leaf, but do not add s alt.
3. Peel the onion and carrot, chop, fry in oil. Then send sauerkraut to the pan. If it is acidic, rinse first. Simmer vegetables until tender, about 25 minutes.
4. Remove onions and carrots from the broth - they are no longer needed.
5. Remove the meat, remove from the bone and cut into pieces, then return to the pot with broth and s alt.
6. Pour the contents of the pan into a saucepan and cook over medium heat for ten minutes.
7. Ready cabbage soup without potatoes, cool and put away for a day or just overnight in the refrigerator.

The next day they need to be reheated and served with sour cream.

If possible, freshly cooked cabbage soup should be poured into clay pots and put in the refrigerator. The next day, take out the pots, cover each with a layer of dough and send it to the oven to warm up - readiness is determined by the dough: if it is baked, you can take it out.

Schi without fresh cabbage potatoes

Temwho does not like sourness, a recipe with a fresh white vegetable will do.

You will need the following ingredients:

• 500 g white cabbage;
• one carrot;
• two onions;
• one zucchini;
• two tomatoes;
• 2, 5 liters of meat or chicken broth;
• s alt;
• greens.

Cooking order:

1. Grate the carrots on a coarse grater, cut the onion into small cubes, finely chop the cabbage.
2. Pour the broth into the pan, put on fire. When it boils, throw carrots into it, then onions and cook for five minutes.
3. Then put cabbage into the broth, followed by diced zucchini, cook for seven minutes.
4. S alt the cabbage soup, then add the diced tomatoes and cook for another seven minutes. Seasonings can be added if desired.
5. When all the vegetables are ready, mix cabbage soup, turn off the gas.

Let the dish brew for 10-15 minutes. Serve cabbage soup without potatoes with bread and fresh herbs. Optionally, you can add sour cream.

Conclusion

Cabbage soup without potatoes can be lean and meaty. They can be cooked with beef, pork, chicken, mushrooms, even fish. Instead of potatoes, you can put beans, zucchini, pumpkin, turnips or cereals, such as barley.