The Georgian soup kharcho pork

How to cook soup kharcho pork? Traditional Georgian recipe makes use of beef or lamb. Try experimenting with a variety of meat and make a dish with pork.

Classic soup kharcho pork

If you use when cooking pork instead of beef, you can safely say that you cooked this traditional Georgian dish. So, special attention should be paid to spices, which give the finished soup an incredible flavor and taste. For cooking we will need: a small piece of pork weighing about 400-500 g, 0.5 cups of rice, onion, garlic, prunes, chilli, a couple of spoons of tomato puree, vegetable oil for frying, water, hops-suneli, tkemali, salt and fresh cilantro.

How to cook soup kharcho pork

Prepare the meat: rinse under cold water, then cut into small pieces and put in a pot with thick walls. Pour two cups of water (it should cover the meat) cook on high heat for 5 minutes. Chop onion, garlic, cilantro. Mix all with tomato paste and spices, add vegetable oil. The mixture soak for 2 minutes on maximum heat and add the meat. To it send tkemali, plum, Fig and pepper. Add required amount of water (depending on how thick soup you want to), salt. Cook until the rice is tender on high heat. Chop herbs, sprinkle the finished dish it and serve.

Soup kharcho pork with tomatoes

For this recipe you will need: small piece of pork weighing 300-400 g onions, 0.5 cups of rice, a couple of large ripe tomatoes, garlic, salt, cilantro and spices (Basil, pepper, Khmeli-suneli, Bay leaf). Put the washed meat in a pot and cook until tender. Beef is usually cooked in 1.5 hours, and pork enough to cook for an hour. Salt the broth. After the meat is cooked, remove it from the pan, strain the liquid and separate the bones. Chop the onion, fry it in oil in a pan, put the sliced pieces of meat to the onions. Lightly fry. Add a few tablespoons of broth and cook for 10 minutes under the lid. While the meat is stewed, prepare the tomatoes. To start with they need to remove the skin: upper cut the tomato crosswise, pour over boiling water. Slice the tomatoes into pieces and add them to the meat and onions. Simmer a few more minutes. The broth in a pot and bring to a boil, then put the meat with vegetables. Bring it to boil. Rinse the rice and put in the soup. Reduce heat to medium fire, cook for about 5 minutes and then put in the soup all the spices. For a few minutes until tender chop the garlic and add it to the soup kharcho pork. Leave the dish to infuse a little, then pour into soup bowls, sprinkle with herbs and enjoy its taste and aroma. To soup traditionally served with pita bread.

Cooking Tips

Despite the fact that Georgian dishes are spicy taste, should be very careful about using chili pepper. It needs to make the soup flavorful, and not to give it sharpness. The soup kharcho pork is no different from the beef soup. In addition, you can add in additional dish ingredients: bell pepper or finely chopped cherry plums. Pay attention to the rice – it can be long grain or round, but not parboiled or crushed.