Chicken soup kharcho

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  • Kharcho soup with chicken and walnuts
  • Kharcho soup without rice dressed with traditional Georgian tkemali and spices
  • Unusual kharcho with chicken, prunes and millet

The classic recipe for the famous Georgian soup kharcho involves the use of beef. In addition, its special taste of this dish a special obligation to refueling - dried plum puree. But it is not so easy to find on the shelves of supermarkets. Therefore, as a good substitute for the more traditional approach tkemali sauce. And someone manages to make use of fresh pomegranate juice and thus achieve the desired flavors.

But Georgian cooks and housewives really like to experiment, so they are alien to the strict prescription frames. Because of this freedom and culinary curiosity, born more than a soup recipe kharcho. Very tasty dish is the first turns and when to cook it with chicken. There are variations with tomatoes and prunes. And each such soup is a kind of a little culinary masterpiece. Are you ready to create something similar in your own kitchen?
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Kharcho soup with chicken and walnuts

Resist this first course is impossible. It exudes so appetizing aroma that await his final readiness under the force of each owner and she constantly takes sample scooping out a little saucepan. The recipe for this soup kharcho not much complicated, and it becomes the highlight of the addition of a special component - walnuts. They perfectly combine with chicken and create a real taste symphony. Do not believe? Then soon start to cook and make sure how true these words are.

Ingredients:

  • Chicken carcasses - 0, 5 kg
  • onions - 1 pc
  • Tomatoes - 2 pieces
  • chopped walnuts - 50 g
  • fresh dill - 1 bunch
  • fresh cilantro - 1 bunch
  • Garlic - 3 cloves
  • tomato paste - 1 tablespoon
  • Rice - 0, 5 cups
  • wheat flour - 1 tablespoon
  • sunflower oil - 2 tablespoons
  • hops-suneli - 1 tsp
  • salt, red pepper - to taste

Cooking method:

Onions clean and cut into medium-sized cubes. Chicken carcass wash, divide into small pieces and place in a saucepan. Fill it with water, put on fire and bring the broth to a boil. Do not forget to remove periodically appear on the surface of the foam. When the liquid in the pan will be completely transparent to pour the onion and reduce the heat. Cooking broth necessary for 1 hour.

While the basis for your future kharcho chicken slowly cooked on the stove, do some cooking refueling. Tomato dip in boiling water, then carefully remove them from the skin, and the flesh finely chop. In a frying pan, pour vegetable oil, put it in tomatoes and walnuts, mix the two components together and fry for 5-6 minutes, no more. Dill wash, drain and finely-chop with garlic and send to tomatoes and nuts. Simmer over medium heat for 5 more minutes.

Figure repeatedly rinse under running water, and also send it to the pan to tomatoes and greens. Pour 2 to ladle of chicken broth, stir, cover and leave to languish for 10 minutes. After the specified time the contents of the pan Put in a pan with chicken and broth. In a small container, connect the flour with tomato paste, stir to avoid lumps, and put in the soup. Give it a boil, add salt, season and simmer, covered for at least 5 minutes. Serve this first meal should be hot, sprinkled with cilantro.

Although it considered to be quite sharp kharcho first dish, but its red pepper seasoning should be with great caution, because this spice should only emphasize the taste of the soup, not dominate it, drowning out the rest of the ingredients. The role of red pepper, and other seasonings like, to provide a specific spicy flavor. Cilantro, which is distinguished by a very peculiar smell, and should be used with great caution. It is best not to put it into a pot of soup and serve separately. And yet, do not overdo it with rice or instead kharcho Chicken risk getting oatmeal. Carefully read the recipe, and it will protect you from most of the errors.

 kharcho Chicken
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Kharcho soup without rice dressed with traditional Georgian tkemali and spices

The sunny Georgia decided to cook with different seasonings and spices. It is thanks to this culinary tradition, evolved for thousands of years, national dishes are particularly rich flavor and rich aroma. Is no exception kharcho Chicken soup. This recipe allows you to create a real holiday on your dinner table, even if there is only one first dish. But what!

Ingredients:

  • Chicken carcasses - 1 piece
  • onions - 4 pieces
  • corn flour - 2 tablespoons
  • tkemali sauce - 0, 5 cups
  • Walnut peeled - 1, 5 cups
  • Garlic - 3 cloves
  • hops-suneli - 1 tsp
  • coriander seeds crushed - 1, 5 teaspoons
  • fresh cilantro - 5 sprigs
  • black pepper, allspice and cayenne - to taste
  • Ground cinnamon - to taste
  • cloves - to taste
  • saffron Imereti - to taste
  • bay leaf - 2-3 pieces
  • salt - to taste

Cooking method:

This recipe with the quantity of ingredients designed for a large family. Do not be afraid that the majority of herbs and spices has no clearly defined measures. Let's learn from the Georgian housewives and trust your own culinary instincts and intuition. Always try that cook and seasoned dishes as you tells your taste. So, go to the soup.

To make it a success, make better use of domestic chicken. Divide it into small pieces, put them in a saucepan, cover with 2, 5 liters of cold water and place over medium heat. When the broth boils, carefully remove it from the surface of the foam and continue to cook until the meat is cooked half. Note that the liquid should not be too bubbling, so do the weak fire. When will the top characteristic of homemade chicken broth fat cereal, spoon, pour it into another pot.

Onion peel and finely chop. Casserole with skim chicken fat put on fire and cook sliced ​​onion in it. After 10 minutes, pulled out to put the pieces of chicken from the broth, cover and continue cooking over medium heat for another quarter of an hour. Then gradually sprinkle in the cornmeal, and after 5 minutes add the chicken broth itself. All these ingredients must simmer for about 15 minutes time to bring your soup to the desired flavor kharcho condition. Add the sauce tkemali. In a separate vessel grind walnuts. Mix them with finely chopped garlic, cayenne, black and allspice, cinnamon, cloves, saffron and coriander seeds.

All of these components, spread a small amount of ostuzhennoy broth and pour into the soup. There also add the bay leaf and hops-suneli. To complete the preparation of the Georgian dishes, let it simmer on low heat for 10 minutes. Then remove the pan from the heat, but to pour on the plates of its aromatic contents are not in a hurry. Currently 5-7 minutes kharcho chicken is much tastier. Do not forget sprinkle each serving with a handful of fresh cilantro.

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Unusual kharcho with chicken, prunes and millet

The classic recipe of the Georgian kharcho involves the use of rice. But there is nothing more interesting than successful culinary experiments, is not it? Therefore, be sure to try to cook soup, following the guidelines described below. Its flavor will seem magical, but it turned a colorful lunch with a Georgian accent long be remembered for your whole family.

Ingredients:

  • chicken fillet - 500 g
  • onions - 2 pieces
  • ripe tomatoes - 10 pieces
  • olive oil - 4 tablespoons
  • Prunes - 60 g
  • hops-suneli - 1 tablespoon
  • walnuts chopped - 1/4 cup
  • lemon juice - 3 tablespoons
  • pomegranate juice - 500 ml
  • tomato paste - 2 tbsp
  • millet powder - 1 cup
  • fresh dill - 1 bunch
  • fresh mint - 1 bunch
  • salt and pepper - to taste
  • water

Cooking method:

Pour the prunes quarter cup of hot water and leave to swell. Meanwhile, clean the onion and garlic from the peel and chop as finely as possible. With tomatoes need to remove the skin. To facilitate this, dip them in boiling water for half a minute. The remaining pulp is cut into small cubes. Chicken fillet wash, pat dry using paper towels, salt and pepper on all sides.

In a cast iron pot, pour 3 tablespoons of olive oil and when it warms up, place fillets and fry for 5 minutes. Then the fire to reduce the average and add onion and garlic cutting. Passero it with frequent agitation for 3 minutes. Then, remove the fillets and set aside. In a pot, add the diced tomatoes, tomato paste, stir. Then pour 1, 5 liters of hot water, pour walnuts and bring everything to a boil.

Steamed prunes twice mince or turn into a puree using a blender and place in a soup. Pot cover and leave to simmer on low heat for 25 minutes. Fried chicken, cut into small pieces and also send it to the soup. Continue cooking it for a quarter of an hour. At the same time enjoy a millet. In a frying pan, pour 1 tablespoon of olive oil, heat over a fire. Pour back the millet and cook until the grains are not yet reveal. Then take any heat-resistant container, to shift into her millet, add 2 cups of hot water, cover and simmer for 20 minutes.

Shortly before the end the time allotted for the preparation of your kharcho chicken, add the hops-suneli, as well as lemon and pomegranate juice. Do not forget to season the dish with salt and pepper. Make sure that prokipel soup for 5 minutes, and remove the pan from the heat. While kharcho insists enjoy a serving. The deep-dish put a little millet, and on top, pour kharcho. Sprinkle each serving with chopped dill and mint.

As you can see, none of the recipe described in the article was not extremely difficult. To prepare a tasty soup in Georgian, you just do not break the standard technology and to follow the order of tabs all the ingredients. But no one forbids you to experiment and play a variety of flavors. Try to complement any recipe Georgian hot soup, such as plum puree. Perhaps you will discover a completely new and interesting combination.

 Famous Georgian soup: prepare kharcho Chicken




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