Cabbage with mushrooms

Kapustnyak is a national dish in Poland and Ukraine, popular also in Belarus, Russia, Moldavia and other Slavic peoples. Cabbage soup is a thick soup, the main ingredient of which is white cabbage, fresh or sour cabbage, rice or millet, carrots, sometimes potatoes, sweet pepper (seasonal) and some other ingredients are also added. Cabbage can be cooked lean or based on meat broth. In different national and regional versions, the preparation of cabbage is different, any recipe has its own peculiarities, for example, in Ukraine sauerkraut is pre-washed, and in Poland, on the contrary, cabbage pickle is added.

Tell you how to make a delicious cabbage soup with mushrooms.

Cabbage with mushrooms

Ingredients:

• white cabbage sauerkraut or fresh - about 700 g;
• fresh mushrooms (white, mushrooms or oyster mushrooms) - about 500 g;
• rice - 4-5 tbsp. spoons;
• lard pork raw for squash - a small piece;
• carrots - 1 piece;
• onion - 2 pcs. ;
• spices (bay leaves, peppercorns, cloves);
• fresh fresh herbs (parsley, dill, etc.);
• garlic.

Preparation

If the cabbage is sour (preferably sauerkraut, and not salty), we wash it under cold water and throw it back in a colander - let it drain. If the cabbage is fresh, just chop it.

Let's cut out the cracklings with small cubes, place them in a saucepan and drown the fat. Slightly save in this fat finely chopped onions. Add finely chopped carrots and mushrooms. Simmer all together on low heat, stirring occasionally with a spatula, for 15-20 minutes, then add cabbage, washed rice and spices. Instead of rice, you can use millet. Then we stew for another 8 minutes, then pour in the broth (chicken or beef, for example) or water. Now boil everything together for 8 minutes. In the end, you can add cabbage brine (1/4 of the total). You can also add to the cabbage 1-2 st. spoons of tomato paste. We put the ready cabbage into plates or soup cups. You can season cabbage with garlic and hot red pepper, and sprinkle with chopped herbs. You can also fill the cabbage with a small amount of sour cream before eating.

To make the dish more nutritious, you can add to the cabbage with mushrooms pieces of meat on which the broth was cooked. Such a hearty dish perfectly suits for lunch as the main or only.

In the options for fasting and vegetarians of different perspectives, you can not use fat in the preparation of cabbage, replacing it with natural butter or vegetable oil.