Solyanka Recipe
Solyanka (russ.: солянка) – a rich salty spicy stew – is one of the most popular dishes of the Russian cuisine. There are different kinds of Solyanka: with meat, sausages, fish or mushrooms. Most important ingredients are cucumber pickles or salted mushrooms. In Russian Solyanka means "salty", derived from the word соль - [sol] (salt).
| 2 litres (=8 cups) | rich meat- or bones stock |
| 500 g (=1.1 lb) | different sorts of meat (smoked pork chops, gammon, sausages, cooked meat from the stock, chicken) |
| 2 | onions |
| 2 | pickled cucumbers |
| 100 ml (=1/2 cup) | brine |
| 2 tbsp | tomato paste |
| 1 | bay leaf |
| black peppercorns | |
| lemon | |
| oil or butter | |
| fresh herbs (dill, parsley) |
Solyanka - step by step
Make meat stock (as for borsch), strip meat off bones and chop it in fine pieces.
- Preheat a pan, add oil or butter. Cut the onions in semi-rings and stir until transparent.
- Cut pickled cucumbers in stripes. Put the cucumbers and the tomato paste into the pan and stir for a couple of minutes.
- Chop the meat in fine pieces.
- Boil the stock up, add stirred onions, cucumbers, meat, brine, peppercorns and the bay leaf and simmer for about 10 minutes.
- Serve with a piece of lemon, fresh herbs and sour cream.
Solyanka-Variations:
- Solyanka tastes very good with capers and black olives. Add shortly before serving to your taste.
- Solyanka is often made with mushrooms. Stir 100 g salted or pickled mushrooms together with onions and cucumbers and cook with other ingredients.
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