Lean cabbage soup

Kapustnyak - a traditional popular Ukrainian dish like a thick soup. There are many different recipes for cabbage, including lean. This is a good option for the first dish for the fasting and vegetarians.

How to cook lean cabbage with millet and mushrooms?

Ingredients:

Preparation

Quail the cabbage and throw it into the colander. We will clean, rinse and slice potatoes. Cleaned carrots shredded small straws, and onions - quarter rings or smaller. Finely chop mushrooms. Save the onions, mushrooms and carrots in oil in a frying pan, protushim, stirring, for 15 minutes on low heat. Potatoes at this time, cook with millet croup in a saucepan for about 20 minutes.

We move the onion-carrot-mushroom passerization from a frying pan into a saucepan with potatoes and millet, add cabbage and spices. Cook all together for another 5-8 minutes. For 2-3 minutes until ready, add the tomato paste and mix thoroughly. Slightly greasy. We let the cabbage stand under the lid for 20 minutes.

We poured into beautiful ceramic bowls and serve, sprinkled with chopped herbs and garlic. Well season the cabbage with red hot pepper and add a spoonful of other sour cream. As an aperitif to cabbage, you can serve a glass of fragrant pepper gorilka with honey or horseradish.

You can prepare cabbage with fresh cabbage and with pickled or pickled mushrooms, in this case, of course, they should be rinsed with boiled water beforehand.

It should be noted that instead of millet in the cabbage, rice or pre-cooked pearl barley may be included.

For those who do not want to fast, we are pleased to inform you that there are many recipes for unbelievable cabbage with meat, poultry, smoked products and even fish. These soups are also very tasty, the main thing is not to digest cabbage to the state of "rags", it should crunch a little .