2 litres (=8 cups) | rich meat- or bones stock |
500 g (=1.1 lb) | different sorts of meat (smoked pork chops, gammon, sausages, cooked meat from the stock, chicken) |
2 | onions |
2 | pickled cucumbers |
100 ml (=1/2 cup) | brine |
2 tbsp | tomato paste |
1 | bay leaf |
black peppercorns | |
lemon | |
oil or butter | |
fresh herbs (dill, parsley) |
Solyanka - step by step
Make meat stock (as for borsch), strip meat off bones and chop it in fine pieces.Preheat a pan, add oil or butter. Cut the onions in semi-rings and stir until transparent.
Cut pickled cucumbers in stripes. Put the cucumbers and the tomato paste into the pan and stir for a couple of minutes.
Chop the meat in fine pieces.
Boil the stock up, add stirred onions, cucumbers, meat, brine, peppercorns and the bay leaf and simmer for about 10 minutes.
Serve with a piece of lemon, fresh herbs and sour cream.