Soup-kharcho of lamb: the recipe from time immemorial

Kharcho Soup - a surprisingly delicious dish, the homeland of which is assumed to be Georgia. Kharcho of lamb at the weekend and, like many other dishes from this meat likely came up with the shepherds, lots of time spend up in the mountains, vipasa sheep. Delicious, flavorful meat could quickly saturate, warm in the cold. Therefore, the main dishes shepherds had a kebab, his, soup kharcho of lamb. Recipe, simple initially, evolved, became more sophisticated, refined. After all, home is a lot easier to cook complicated dish than a campfire in the mountains.

It is Interesting that in our time the process is reversed: the recipe again simplified. Stepping outside of Georgia, the soup is very heavily modified. Moreover, grub a is called regular soups with spices, cooked in lamb broth. Of course, such cuisine is also delicious, they have a right to life. However, no relation to the historical dish they have. For the present, grub requires a lot of food:

• Kilo brisket of a sheep, desirable young;
• Three large onions;
• Cup walnuts;
• As many ripe tomatoes;
• Large bunch fresh cilantro;
• The same bunch of parsley;
• Rice;
• Spicy ajika or tkemali (a cherry plum sauce);
• Juice;
• Peppers;
• Flashlights.

If you prepare kharcho with walnuts usually are easy, the last ingredient most often there is a catch. The composition is a mixture of Khmeli-suneli, which includes a maximum of six components. While the present set of spices for kharcho, there should be much more. It should include:

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• Imereti saffron (which is almost impossible to get outside of Georgia);
• Basil;
• Fenugreek or fenugreek;
• Peppermint;
• Marjoram;
• Hot pepper;
• Dill
• Parsley;
• Thyme;
• Coriander seeds;
• Bay leaf;
• Celery.

Only this the spices will help you cook really delicious Georgian soup kharcho of lamb.

The Recipe

First, fry until Golden brown chopped lamb. After that it start to cook on weak fire. While the meat is cooking, prepare the rest of the products: chopped onion, greens, clean and cut the vegetables.

The Onion until transparent fry in oil, then spread half svalivsheesya meat. Then add the rice, and when he is also half cooked, throw the peeled tomato, sweet pepper.

Walnuts make a particularly spicy soup kharcho of lamb. The recipe allows for their absence, but without the nut taste is not as refined. So 15 minutes before the end of cooking the soup, spread crushed nuts, greens. Add salt, adjust the taste with tkemali or adjika, pomegranate juice.

This kharcho - a stunning feast of flavours. It combines unexpected notes of spice, subtle aroma of the walnuts, the sharpness of the spices. Sour-sweet, spicy, fragrant soup kharcho of lamb, the recipe of which came from the depths of time, forever captivates palates.

Some cooks argue that grub was originally prepared from beef. It is difficult to argue, especially since, as the saying goes, “the taste and color of comrades there”.

There are options kharcho soup made from beef, pork, chicken, Turkey and even duck. And anyone who has ever made this soup, I am sure that his prescription is the right one. All converge only in one: this feels impossible without spices and peppers.

Do Not waste time in pointless disputes. Better be armed with the necessary products and try to cook all versions of this soup. Better yet, go to a real Georgian restaurant, where skilled chefs will delight a true work of art - the kharcho soup, prepared in Georgian. Maybe someone will get lucky and Georgian cooks share with him the recipe of this national masterpiece.