Soup "Harcho"

Soup “Harcho”

Delicious for REAL men

At first time I cooked this soup as lazy, ignorant of Georgian tradition cuisine cooker. I also used mutton! But can say that – not bad. In actual fact, “Harcho” is Georgian dish, soup (name means beef soup). It is very important to use 3 ingredients: beef, tklapy (concentrated sauce tkemaly-plum sauce) and grated walnuts. I’ll show you my first experience and then recipe of real “Harcho”.

For 4 persons you need:

500 g mutton

2 onions

1 tbsp oil

1 tbsp flour

2-3 gloves of garlic

2 tbsp tomato paste

100 g rice

2 tbsp wine vinegar

1 bay leaf

salt

black pepper

1 tuft of fresh green

Step 1: Wash meat, dry it up, slice large pieces and put into pot. Pour 2.5l of water, reduce till boiling and skim a scum from bouillon. Boil during 2 h (small fire);

Step 2: Peel onion and chop finely. Warm up oil in a pan and fry it slightly. Strew onion with flour, make it brown and take away fire;

Step 3: Put rice into bowl and wash it out by cold running water, then pour water out. Put fried onion and rice into bouillon, salt, pepper and boil during 20 minutes;

Step 4: Peel garlic, chop finely and add to our soup with tomato pasta, bay leaf and wine vinegar together. Salt, pepper one more time and boil 5 min more;

Step 5: Wash fresh green, dry it up and chop finely. Serve Harcho in plates and strew with green.

Good advice: add 1tsp vinegar during boiling and meat will become tasty and will be prepared faster. You can also rub meat with soda previously and leave for 3-4 h, then wash it out thoroughly and boil.

Real Georgian recipe Harcho:

1. Boil meat (put cut meat into cold water. Boil during 2-2.5h, middle fire);
2. Take meat away pot and put there rice. Salt bouillon and boil rice with roots together (but take it away in the finishing) and back meat;
3. Add first portion of spicery: fried onion with 1 tbsp flour (see Step 2), 1 parsley root, bay leaf and some crushed pea black pepper;
4. Over 5 minutes pour grated walnuts in;
5. After 5 minutes more add second portion of spicery: 2 tbsp parsley green, 1 tsp dry basil, 0.5 tsp red pepper, 0.5 tsp cinnamon. At the same time add sour sauce tklapy (if you haven’t it, add 0,5 glass pomegranate juice or at least tomato pasta). Add hmely-sunely if you have.
6. Cook no more than 5 min, add pounded garlic, 2 tbsp kinza green, 0,5 tbsp basil green then leave covered Harcho with lid about 3-5 minutes to brew;

Beef and smoked cheese

We’ll need next ingridients: beef - 800 gr (without bones), smoked cheese - 300 gr, flat earthenware dish (I haven’t but i took big earthenware pot - not bad) and a little bit butter for pot greasing.




Cut the beef into thin slices and beat it slightly.







Put it to the greased flat earthenware dish, interlaying t 2 hours.



Serve on a large plate with mashed potatoes and salad.

Beef-rolls

We will need beef - 900 gr, salted pork fat - 100 gr, marinated cucumbers - 200 gr, mustard, onion - 60 gr, sour cream 150 gr, flour, salt, ground black pepper, greens (any) for decoration, grease and thread.



You need to beat the meat off, salt, pepper it and cover by mustard.











Slice salted pork fat and marinated cucumbers into strips. Cut onion into rings.



Put on every piece of meat prepared cucumbers, salted pork fat and onion, adding black pepper.





To wrap it into roll and tie with thread.






and Fry it with olive oil (for appetizing crust add butter to olive oil)









Move rolls to the pan and stew it with a sour cream about 40 minutes.




Lay it out, remove the thread. Serve with boiled buckwheat strewing with greens. Bon appetit!