Earlier, I already shared one of the classic recipes for Kharcho soup. But I also like one more way of preparing this Georgian dish. This recipe is used to prepare Kharcho in western Georgia. There are several dramatic differences in cooking. So rice or polenta is cooked separately and put into ready-made soup. Onions are not fried separately, but an onion-nut paste is made.
Ingredients (for a 3L pot):
- Beef on the bone – 1 kg.
- Rice – 300-400 gr.
- Bulb onions – 2 pcs.
- Walnuts – 100 gr.
- Garlic – 3 cloves
- Tomato paste – 2 tbsp
- Hops-suneli (khmeli syluneli) seasoning – 1 tsp
- Ground fenugreek – 1 tsp
- Ground chili pepper – to taste
- Cilantro greens – bunch
- Vegetable oil (or butter)
- Salt
Cooking process
1 Broth. Put the beef in a pot and fill it with cold water. Cook the broth over low heat, periodically skimming off the foam. Cooking time at least 1.5 hours – the meat should be soft and well separated from the bone.
2 While the broth is cooking, prepare a pasta dressing for the soup. In a food processor, combine onions, walnuts, cilantro stalks, khmeli suneli and fenugreek. You can add a pinch of chili peppers for spice. You should get a thick, homogeneous mass.
3 In a frying pan, melt the butter (or vegetable oil) and spread the tomato paste. After a few minutes, add the onion-nut paste to the pan. Mix well. Fry over low heat for 10-15 minutes, stirring constantly.
4 In parallel with the basic preparations, you can cook rice (or polenta). We will add the cooked rice later to the ready-made soup.
5 When the broth is cooked, we take out the beef from the pot. Separate the meat from the bone and cut it into cubes.
6 The remaining stock in the pot needs to be boiled down a little more. To do this, make a medium heat and cook the broth for another 30 minutes.
7 Reduce heat. Next, put the chopped meat and onion-nut paste from the pan into a pot. Stir. Salt to taste. Add chopped garlic and cook for 1 minute.
Serve ready-made Kharcho with finely chopped cilantro and rice. By varying the amount of rice at your own discretion, you can get either soup or stew.
Other delicious soups from around the world:
Ukrainian borscht https://takajaeda.com/en/recipes-en/ukrainian-borscht-according-to-my-grandmothers-recipe/
Garlic Spanish soup (Sopa De Ajo) https://takajaeda.com/en/recipes-en/garlic-soup-sopa-de-ajo/
Hungarian goulash soup https://takajaeda.com/en/recipes-en/hungarian-goulash-soup/