Mushroom solyanka

Solyanka (another name of the village) is originally one of the traditional dishes of Russian cuisine, it is an acute sour-salted soup of a filling type, usually cooked on steep broth (meat, fish or mushroom). Also called a hodgepodge is a thick dish of stewed cabbage with meat, fish or mushrooms.

Currently, solyanka is popular not only in Russia, there are many different recipes with characteristic national-regional products and cooking methods.

Tell you how to make a mushroom hodgepodge. Usually salted cucumbers , cabbage, olives, capers and lemon, as well as various spices, garlic and fresh herbs are added to the solyanka. Serve with sour cream. Recipes for the preparation of various mushroom pickles are not strict, so you can approach the case variably and creatively.

Mushroom hodgepodge of champignons with cabbage and potatoes

Ingredients:

Preparation

Potatoes shall be cooked in a separate saucepan "in uniform". The well washed mushrooms are cut relatively large and cooked with the addition of bay leaves and cloves in a minimum amount of water for 20 minutes.

Shred cabbage, finely chop the onion. We will heat the oil in a sauté pan and lightly fry the onion, add the cabbage, stir, reduce the heat and stew for 20 minutes, stirring and adding some water, if necessary. We combine stewed cabbage with onions and mushrooms with broth. We add olives cut into slices and pickles. We fill the hodgepodge with tomato paste and season abundantly with spices. You can add a little cucumber brine. Pour hot hodgepodge on plates, add peeled and cut into large slices of potatoes, sprinkle with chopped herbs and garlic. Sour cream is served separately. To a mushroom hodgepodge it is good to serve a glass of vodka, bitter or berry tincture, it is possible to serve table or strong unsweetened wines.

Of course, if you add boiled meat, smoked meat or boiled fish to a mushroom hodgepodge, the dish will be more satisfying.

Recipe mushroom pickles on meat broth

Ingredients:

Preparation

We lay out on plates in each little by little various mushrooms (if necessary, they can be cut, but not too finely) and sauerkraut. We add olives cut into slices and pickles, put on a lemon slice and a teaspoon of tomato paste. It will be good to add 2-3 pieces of boiled meat (but this is not necessary). Fill collected in plates hodgepodge boiling broth, sprinkle with chopped herbs and mix.

Sour cream is seasoned with chopped garlic, dry ground spices, hot red pepper. We serve in a separate bowl. Bread for this hodgepodge is better to choose rye or whole wheat.