Soup piti - a popular traditional dish of Azerbaijani cuisine, has a very bright and unusual characteristic taste. Usually, the soup of pita is prepared from lamb with the addition of various vegetables, chick peas, plum-cherry plums, quinces, and sometimes chestnuts. Take for the preparation of this dish, instead of chickpeas, the usual peas that are boiled in puree, and instead of mutton - beef is not worth: then it will simply turn out to be a completely different dish. The traditional recipe for the preparation of soup piti involves the use of ceramic serving pots (although alternatives are possible). Products are laid in pots layers.
Azerbaijani lamb meat soup - recipe
Ingredients:
- young lamb - 150-180 g;
- potatoes - 3-4 pcs. medium size;
- peas chickpeas (nagut) - 0,5 items;
- lard mutton (better than kurdius) - 15-20 g;
- onion - 1 pc .;
- plum (or prune, or other plum, is better sourish) - 2-4 pcs .;
- pepper red spicy fresh - 0,5-1 pod;
- hops-suneli - to taste;
- salt;
- tomato paste - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- fresh greens are different (parsley, coriander, tarragon, etc.).
Preparation
Calculation of products is given for 1 serving.
Peas chickpeas are washed and soaked in cold water for at least an hour for 4, or better - at night. We wash the meat carefully, dry it with a clean cloth and cut it in small pieces (approximate gram weight 30-50). We put them in pots 3-4 pieces each, fill it with water, lightly add some salt, close the pots with lids (if there are no covers, you can close it with foil) and put in an oven, warmed to medium temperature, for 40-50 minutes, so that the meat is good boiled. After this time, we add in each pot a finely chopped fattened fat, peeled and sliced potatoes, chopped onions, pitted plum (or prunes), peas, tomato puree, spices and peppers. We mix everything, cover it with covers and put it in the oven again for 20 minutes. To the table we serve in pots, season with chopped garlic and fragrant fresh herbs.
To potato soup, we serve potato, or cheese cakes .
You can prepare a soup of a little bit different.
Another recipe for making pita soup
Ingredients:
- a young mutton - about 600 g;
- onion - 2 pcs .;
- peas chickpeas (nagut) - 2 items;
- lard mutton (better fried) - about 80 g;
- potatoes - 4 pcs. medium size;
- cherry plum - 12-16 pieces;
- quince fresh - 1 piece;
- red sweet pepper - 2 pcs .;
- tomato red ripe - 4 pcs .;
- red hot pepper fresh - 2 pods;
- Spices for broth (pepper-peas, bay leaf, cloves) - to taste;
- salt;
- garlic - 4 cloves;
- fresh greens (coriander, parsley, tarragon, etc.).
Preparation
The calculation of the products is given for 4 servings.
Sliced lamb slices in a pan or saucepan and cook in a small amount of water with onions, bay leaves, cloves and pepper-peas until soft meat. Carefully remove the foam and fat with a noise. We extract meat from broth, broth filter.