Kharcho is an incomparable dish of Georgian cuisine.
It is very rich, nourishing, bright and everyone, without exception, has to taste.
Thanks to spicy spices, Kharcho disperses blood, warms, improves the appetite and just battles outright with its aroma.
Let's hit the Georgian soup?
Kharcho at home - general principles of cooking
For real Georgian kharcho use fat pieces of meat, always with a bone. Although more often you can find recipes with poultry and even vegetarian. They also have a lot of fans, so let them be! The broth is boiled until the meat is completely soft and only then rice is added.
What else do they put in kharcho home soup?
• tomatoes, tomato paste;
• onions, sometimes carrots;
• garlic;
• pepper of different types;
• cilantro greens, sometimes different;
• walnuts.
And, of course, a lot of spices. The easiest way to take a mixture of hop-suneli, so as not to pick up spices on their own. Paprika, bay leaves are often added, you can put ready-made adjika. Classic Kharcho prepared with plum marshmallow as thin pita bread. But more and more often, the lack of this ingredient is compensated for with sauces based on plums or they simply get by with sharp adzhika.
Recipe 1: Classic Kharcho soup at home with tklapi
The recipe of the real Kharcho soup at home with the addition of tklapi. What it is? In fact, this is a thin pita of dried plums, which Georgians use in many national dishes.
Ingredients
• pound of beef on the bone;
• garlic head;
• 0.1 kg walnut nuts;
• 50 ml tomato paste;
• 150 grams of rice;
• 2 bulbs;
• 150 plum pita (tklapi);
• 1 tsp. hops suneli;
• 2 leaves of laurel;
• 0.5 tsp. red pepper;
• bunch of cilantro;
• salt;
• 1 hot chili pepper;
• 5 allspice peppers.
Cooking
1. Cooking broth. To do this, wash the washed piece of beef until soft, do not forget to remove the foam. Then the meat must be removed, remove the bone, cut into pieces and return to the pan. 2. Tklapi tear pieces, can be cut. We throw in a bowl, pour hot broth and leave to soak.
3. Onion cut into small cubes and run into the broth.
4. Next add the washed rice, you can immediately salt it. Cook almost to readiness.
5. Add the broth with tklapi.
6. Grind cilantro greens, a head of garlic and grind everything together in a mortar to make the mixture more aromatic.
7. Fill with tomato paste, lay out the previously prepared spicy mixture.
8. We throw peppercorns, bay leaves, pour red pepper, but you can put less. We throw chopped nuts.
9. Soup off, insist 15 minutes. Then we pour into plates and add the hot pepper chopped by ringlets, you can put more greens.
Recipe 2: Making home-made kharcho with tkemali sauce
Not everyone has homemade dried plum pita bread, but you can buy tkemali sauce at any store. And many people love him, often use him and do not know that with him you can cook an amazing little grub at home.
Ingredients
• 0.7 kg of beef;
• 4 ripe tomatoes;
• 4 cloves of garlic;
• 50 grams of rice;
• 1 laurel leaf;
• 50 grams of nuts;
• greens and salt;
• 50 grams of tkemali;
• 30 grams of tomato paste;
• hot pepper;
• a little hops-suneli.
Cooking
1. Make a broth from a piece of meat, one onion and bay leaf. You can put pepper peas.
2. As soon as the beef becomes soft and starts moving away from the bone, turn it off. Strain the broth. Meat cut into pieces, onion and spices are thrown away.
3. Boil broth, add rice and cook.
4. Put some oil in the pan, set on fire.
5. Put the remaining onion, which must be finely chopped.
6. As soon as the onions begin to turn red, add diced tomatoes. The skin can be removed or left, it does not matter.
7. As soon as the juice is evaporated from the tomatoes, put tkemali with tomato paste and chopped hot pepper. Simmer it all together for a couple of minutes and place in a pan to the already cooked rice.
8. Add boiled meat, throw spices and turn off.
9. When serving, put greens, hot peppers into each plate and sprinkle some nuts, which can be lightly fried in a frying pan to brighten the taste.
Recipe 3: Homemade kharcho with carrots and spicy adjika
Another recipe on which you can cook kharcho at home. You will need a real sharp adjika, which will replace most spices, which simplifies the process.
Ingredients
• 1 kg of meat;
• 2 carrots;
• 2 bulb onions;
• 50 grams adjika;
• 5 tablespoons of tomato paste;
• 120 grams of rice;
• some oil;
• salt and red pepper;
• 0.5 tablespoons of hops-suneli;
• bay leaf, parsley (can be dry).
Cooking
1. Cooking broth from meat, one carrot, one onion and bay leaf. Water pour about 2.5 liters. Then we filter, pick the meat and return it back.
2. We wash rice, we throw in a pan, we cook.
3. Shred the remaining carrot, chop the onion. Fry with oil in a skillet.
4. Pasta diluted soup ladle.
5. As soon as the vegetables begin to turn red, pour in a tomato. Put the adjika and simmer the vegetable mixture over low heat for about ten minutes.
6. Then we shift to the pan with cooked rice, salt and simmer on low heat for another three minutes.
7. It was the turn of spices. Run hops, throw parsley, you can add garlic to taste. The sharpness is adjusted by pepper, but you can add more adzhiki. Yummy!
Recipe 4: Kharcho at home from chicken
Option lighter soup Kharcho, which is prepared in chicken broth. Similarly, you can use a turkey. Part of the carcass does not matter.
Ingredients
• 0.5 cup rice;
• 2 spoons of butter;
• 1 onion;
• 2 tomatoes;
• 1 spoon of pasta;
• 500-700 grams of chicken;
• 3 cloves of garlic;
• 1 tsp. hops;
• 3 tablespoons of nuts;
• cilantro, bay leaf;
• red ground or chilli pepper.
Cooking
1. Cut the chicken in small pieces at once, throw it into the pan, add 2 liters of water and cook for 40 minutes, not more.
2. Run the washed rice, salt the soup.
3. Fry chopped onion with butter.
4. Send crushed tomatoes with tomato paste to the pan.
5. If pepper is used in a pod, then it should be finely chopped and also thrown into the pan. Let stew until soft with other vegetables, and give sharpness. 6. Separately fry the nuts, you can immediately detail or simply roll a rolling pin.
7. Run into the pan the contents of the pan, give boil.
8. Throw hops, chopped garlic with nuts and laurel leaf. Cilantro can be added to the pan or put in portions when serving.
Recipe 5: Homemade mutton ribs kharcho
This option cooking kharcho at home can not be called diet. The soup is quite fat, rich, but insanely fragrant and tasty. Especially men like it.
Ingredients
• 1 kg of mutton ribs;
• 2.5-3 liters of water;
• 1 spoon of pasta;
• 3 tomatoes;
• 3 onions;
• 1 spoon of hops;
• 0.5 tsp. red pepper;
• 200 grams of rice;
• laurel, basil, cilantro;
• 1 tsp. paprika;
• some oil;
• 4 cloves of garlic.
Cooking
1. Take a cauldron and fry ribs on high heat. Add boiling water and cook fragrant broth.
2. As soon as the lamb is ready, run rice. It should be washed well in several waters.
3. Immediately throw one chopped onion into the pan, let it boil with rice.
4. The rest of the onions are cut, fry in a skillet.
5. Cut the tomatoes in half, rub on the grated skinless, send to the onion. Immediately throw tomato paste and simmer for 15 minutes.
6. We shift the contents of the pan to the cauldron, salt, put pepper, hops, paprika and cook for five minutes.
7. In the end, season the soup with greens, chopped garlic, throw bay leaves.
Recipe 6: Cooking Kharcho at Home with Smoked Pork
Smoked kharcho at home is even easier and faster to cook than a classic soup. For it, you can use pork ribs or any other pieces, but you need quite a bit of them.
Ingredients
• 300 grams of smoked pork;
• 2 onions;
• 120 grams of rice;
• 2 carrots;
• 150 grams of pasta;
• 50 grams of lard fresh;
• greenery;
• 4 cloves of garlic;
• fragrant spices, pepper.
Cooking
1. Fill the pork with two liters of water, put on the stove and boil for five minutes exactly after boiling.
2. We throw the washed rice, cook until soft.
3. In a frying pan fry the pieces of bacon, cut into small cubes. 4. Add the onions with carrots to the fat, add the tomato paste and simmer for 10 minutes.
5. We shift the vegetables to rice with pork, salt the soup.
6. In two minutes we launch spices, chopped garlic and greens.
Recipe 7: Lean kharcho soup at home
Lean soups are usually empty and watery, but not just kharcho. This is a terrific recipe for a vegetarian soup that will fit not only for the post, but also if you want to cook something light.
Ingredients
• 4 potatoes;
• 2 carrots;
• 80 grams of nuts;
• 4 cloves of garlic;
• 100 grams of pasta;
• 2 onions;
• salt, red pepper;
• bay leaf, greens;
• 50 ml of oil;
• 100 grams of rice;
• allspice.
Cooking
1. Dice potatoes, run 2.5 liters of boiling water.
2. As soon as the potatoes boil, throw the washed rice. Salt immediately.
3. Fry on a skillet chopped finely onion.
4. After a couple of minutes, add the grated carrot, simmer until soft.
5. Run into the pan tomato paste, diluted with water. Stew for about ten minutes.
6. Once the potatoes and rice are cooked, put the contents of the pan into the pan.
7. Run minced garlic, chopped nuts, all other spices and herbs. Give boil and immediately turn off. Serve after fifteen minutes of infusion of soup under the lid.
Recipe 8: Homemade Kharcho recipe with pearl barley
Recipe healthy and rich soup, which instead of rice is pearl barley. To reduce cooking time, it is advisable to soak the grits in cold water in advance. It is possible for the whole night.
Ingredients
• 150 grams of barley;
• 500 grams of any meat, you can poultry;
• 2 tablespoons of pasta;
• 1 sweet pepper;
• 1 sharp pod;
• 2 onions;
• parsley;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• spices;
• 1 spoon adjika;
• some oil.
Cooking
1. Cook the broth. Add about 2.5 liters of water.
2. Separately, boil pearl barley until soft, but make sure that the grains are not boiled soft. Drain the water, wash the barley.
3. Fry the diced onions, put the chopped pepper
4. Add tomato paste, adjika, a little broth from the pan and simmer until the vegetables are completely soft. 5. As soon as the meat is cooked, we take it out, cut it into cubes and pour it back into the pan. Salt broth.
6. Put pearl barley to the meat, boil for about five minutes so that the tastes are connected.
7. Spread the dressing from the pan into the soup, let it boil for a minute.
8. Add spices, herbs, crushed garlic and all! You can serve an aromatic dish on the table.
All the tricks and secrets of cooking kharcho at home
• Cilantro is an indispensable ingredient in kharcho. But it is not for everyone. And if you do not like this ingredient, then boldly replace parsley. If guests are expected for lunch, it is better to submit several types of greenery in a separate container.
• To spice had time to open, after cooking the dish should be allowed to brew for about 15 minutes. But do not overdo it, as rice can go off and instead of soup you get tomato porridge. For the same reason, you should not cook for the future, it is delicious only fresh.
• Kharcho - spicy dish. But it is not necessary to follow this rule. If you do not like spicy food or children will take part in the meal, then use neutral spices: paprika, curry, all kinds of greens. Hot pepper and adjika can be served separately.
• Boiled garlic is not very tasty and loses its flavor. It is better to add chopped cloves at the very end of the soup or boil it directly on the plates.
