When the snow melts and the first greenery appears, the body, exhausted over the winter, craves to replenish its supply of vitamins. The end of March and April is the time to switch to pasture! The first greens of young nettle (which, by the way, do not sting at all), sorrel, spinach, beet tops and even dandelion contain a huge amount of vitamins and other useful substances. After May, the amount of gluten and fiber in this foliage increases, and it loses its taste. Let's take advantage of the moment and find out how to make sorrel soup. There are a lot of recipes for this dish. It is prepared with meat, chicken and mushroom broths. There is also an absolutely lean option, made with vegetable broth. This soup can be served either hot or cold. To make it more filling, you can add cream, dumplings, a boiled egg or cheese. The only thing a novice cook who doesn’t yet know how to make sorrel soup needs to remember is that the tender leaves are placed in the pan at the very end of cooking. This way the vitamins will be preserved and the ingredients will not boil over.
Before looking at different vintage versions of soups that contain sorrel, let's study a classic recipe from my grandmother's notebook. Usually this spring dish was prepared with chicken broth. The result is a very rich, satisfying and amber sorrel soup. The recipe starts by making chicken broth. We take a large saucepan, pour two liters of cold water into it, put the washed soup set or 2 legs in it and put it on the fire. After boiling, reduce the gas and skim off the foam. Peel the carrots and just wash the onion. Cook the chicken along with the vegetables over low heat until the meat is completely cooked. A quarter of an hour before it’s ready, salt the broth, add 2 peppercorns and a bay leaf. Strain the broth through a colander or sieve. Throw away the vegetables, remove the meat from the bones, cut into pieces.
Now that our broth is ready, we can proceed to the second stage. To do this, peel, wash and cut 2 potatoes into cubes. Place in boiling broth and cook for about 20 minutes. Finely chop a small onion. Half a carrot, three large ones. Fry the onion in vegetable oil until soft. Then add carrots to it, lightly salt and pepper. When the vegetables turn golden, add this frying to the pan. Cook for another 5 minutes. And only now do we remember that sorrel soup is on our agenda. The recipe calls for sorting and washing a bunch of greens, trimming the stems, and coarsely chopping the leaves. First we throw chicken meat into the pan, followed by sorrel. After this, cook the soup for exactly two minutes. Turn off the heat and let it brew under the lid for a quarter of an hour. Serve with a spoonful of sour cream in a plate.
If you don’t yet know how to make sorrel soup without meat, here’s a simple recipe. The richness in this dish will be provided by Adyghe cheese, and the aroma will be provided by numerous spices. Boil 1-2 potatoes, cut into cubes, in a liter of water. Roughly chop three small carrots. Heat a little vegetable oil in a frying pan and throw in half a spoonful of turmeric, cumin and other spices (to taste). After a couple of seconds, add grated carrots to the spices. Saute it, stirring. Three 100 grams of Adyghe cheese directly into the frying pan. Stir quickly and turn off the heat after a minute. Wash a large bunch of sorrel, sort it out, and chop the leaves coarsely. If the potatoes have already become soft, add the contents of the frying pan to the vegetarian soup. After two minutes, throw in the sorrel. Salt the soup and season with ground black pepper. In a minute the soup is ready. Pour into plates, sprinkle with dill, add a spoonful of sour cream.
The sour taste of the first greens harmonizes perfectly with the fresh and satisfying boiled egg. Many housewives use this. And the dish seems to be richer. In most cases, half a hard-boiled egg is placed on a plate and poured over the prepared soup. But in this recipe we propose to do something completely different. To do this, pour 5 diced potatoes with 3-4 liters of broth (or water), cook until tender. Then wash 3 or 4 bunches of sorrel (700 grams), chop the leaves not very finely, and place them in a saucepan. Break a dozen eggs into a bowl and beat lightly with a fork. As soon as the soup begins to boil again after immersing the sorrel in it, pour the eggs into the broth in a thin stream. Stir to form “strings” of coagulated protein. Salt and pepper to taste, turn off the heat. Sprinkle the finished soup with chopped onion and dill. With sour cream the dish will turn out even tastier.
It would be ideal to use veal brisket in this dish. Chop 1.5 kilograms of meat on the bones into three parts and fill with cold water for half an hour. After this, we drain the liquid with the blood. Fill with water again and cook together with the onion in the peel over high heat. As soon as it boils in the saucepan, reduce the heat and skim off the foam. After an hour and a half, add salt and pepper to our soup. In the meantime, let's start frying. This technique is often used when cooking first courses. Therefore, if you are thinking not only about how to make sorrel soup, but also create some other culinary masterpiece, you can also use it. To do this, saute 2 finely chopped onions in a mixture of butter and vegetable oils. Add grated carrots and finely chopped tomato without skin (you can replace it with a spoon of tomato paste). Add a little broth from the pan and simmer under the lid for about a quarter of an hour. When the meat becomes soft and stops bleeding when pierced, take it out and separate it from the bones. And we filter the broth itself through cheesecloth or a sieve into another container. Then we put 6 chopped potatoes into the boiling soup, and we also send the finished frying there. Wash three bunches of sorrel, chop the leaves coarsely, and also put them in the broth. Beat three eggs with a fork and, stirring the soup in the pan in a circle, pour them in in a thin stream. Return the meat to the broth. Season the dish with pepper, cloves, and salt as needed. After 10 minutes the soup is ready.
When it's hot outside, you want something refreshing and not too greasy. It is best to serve cold sorrel soup to your family for lunch on a summer afternoon. It does not require kvass or kefir, although you will still need a glass of sour cream. Let's boil a liter of water, put the leaves of two bunches of sorrel there - this time finely chopped. After three minutes, turn off the heat and cool the broth. Now add a glass of sour cream and salt to taste. Separately, cook two potatoes in their skins. Peel and cut into cubes. Grind a large cucumber and a bunch of radishes in the same way. Chop small bunches of green onions and dill. Mix all the vegetables and herbs in sour cream and sorrel broth. Before serving, place a few slices of boiled egg on each plate.
This is a real vitamin bomb. Okroshka is made in almost the same way as cold sorrel soup, but in addition to the main ingredient, sorrel, you also need to take other greens. Young nettle, a little wild garlic, dill and parsley leaves go very well. If you want to use beet greens, you need to remember that they are firmer and take a little longer to cook. Therefore, it must be dipped into boiling water first. In order not to have to worry about cutting the leaves, you can first chop them coarsely, boil them, and then grind the green broth in a blender. The fat content of the dish can be adjusted using sour cream, ayran or kefir. Mixing the dairy product with beef, pork or chicken broth makes a very nutritious but light-tasting green sorrel soup.
If you have a multicooker in your home, you can use this useful kitchen device. Regardless of the brand of machine, cooking will be less energy-intensive. Consider a recipe using chicken broth. Chop the onion into half rings, three carrots, and finely chop three cloves of garlic. Pour a spoonful of vegetable oil into the multicooker bowl and sauté the vegetables with the lid open in the “frying” mode. Wash 800 grams of chicken (thighs, legs or wings) and place on the bottom. Fry a little. Add 5 diced potato tubers. Pour three liters of cold water, close the lid and set the “quenching” mode for an hour. After the signal, remove the chicken, return the meat to the broth, and discard the bones. Add finely chopped sorrel leaves (150 g), salt, pepper, dried dill. Continue simmering for another 15 minutes. Sorrel soup in a slow cooker is ready. Serve it with a boiled egg and sour cream.
To save time and not have to deal with meat, you can simply open a can of stew. We fry with 2 pinches of sugar and a teaspoon of flour. Cut four potatoes, add water, bring to a boil, cook for 10 minutes. We spread the roast and stew. Boil a little more, add a large bunch of chopped sorrel. Season to taste and add salt. If sorrel soup with stew does not seem particularly sour to you, you can adjust its taste with lemon or lime juice.
Most housewives call sorrel soup more familiarly and affectionately – green borscht or green cabbage soup. This sour seasonal herb is extremely beneficial! And we must take advantage of the opportunity when fresh sorrel appears in the beds or on the shelves, and prepare delicious hot and cold dishes from it.
If you like soups with a little sourness, then you will definitely like this.
Recipes made from fresh sorrel are impressive with bright colors and do not require expensive products. There are dishes here for lovers of pork with fat, and for gourmets who care about the color scheme and their figure. By the way, you can prepare sorrel for future use and treat yourself to hot sorrel soup in winter.
Our grandmothers and great-grandmothers prepared green cabbage soup according to the classic recipe. Sorrel soup is rightly called the king of spring soups, and it can be prepared from the simplest ingredients.
Ingredients:
You can store the broth with pieces of meat in the freezer for up to 1 month and use it to make quick soups! To transfer the frozen broth into a saucepan, just hold the container with the broth under hot water.
Preparation:
Don't forget to salt the broth and add your favorite spices!
Pour aromatic soup into a bowl, add crackers, sprinkle with chopped eggs and add a spoonful of sour cream! It turns out incredibly beautiful and just as delicious!
If you don’t like thin sorrel soup, then green cabbage soup will get the desired thickness from cereals and boiled eggs. Sometimes, when preparing sorrel soup, millet or rice, previously soaked in cold water, is added to it.
Ingredients for green borscht with egg:
Preparation:
The broth for sorrel soup is cooked for 1-2 hours. You can use pork, chicken or turkey leg.
Any fresh herbs are added 3-5 minutes before the end of cooking! Sorrel stalks can also be used in soup if they are finely chopped!
When serving, decorate with sour cream, chopped eggs or their halves.
The simplest, and most importantly, healthy sorrel soup is made from chicken broth. You can use breast meat in the recipe - this is an option for dietary borscht, or chicken legs - for rich aromatic soups.
Ingredients for the soup:
Eggs can be washed and boiled together with chicken legs. After 15 minutes, take them out and place them in cold water!
Preparation:
After boiling, cook for another 2-3 minutes! Serve in a beautiful bowl with a dollop of sour cream!
Eggs can be added to green borscht in 3 ways: finely chopped, sliced into slices or halves, or you can pour them in a thin stream into a boiling broth! Then beautiful “clouds” will float in the soup.
The rich sorrel soup with meat will please the owner of the house. The recipe includes the healthiest ingredients, a variety of vegetables and pork tenderloin, and the cooking process will bring pleasure to any busy housewife.
Let's prepare the necessary products:
For spices we use bay leaf, black pepper, salt and celery root.
Preparation:
A spoonful of sour cream or mayonnaise will add the finishing touch to the plate!
Light sorrel soup with mushrooms is prepared quickly and fills the house with mouth-watering aromas. The recipe is simple, and neither the children nor the beloved husband will be able to resist the temptation to try the delicious soup.
For this culinary masterpiece you will need:
Preparation:
Don't forget to add your favorite spices, for example, bay leaf and peppercorns!
Before serving, add a spoonful of homemade mayonnaise and chopped boiled eggs to each plate.
If mushroom soup with sorrel was boiled in water, then it can be eaten cold!
The delicate consistency of puree soups is especially popular among older people. Sorrel cabbage soup can be easily prepared in the form of an airy cream and add exquisite notes to the recipe with the help of additional ingredients.
To prepare you will need:
Preparation:
Sorrel can be cooked for no more than 3 minutes to preserve color and beneficial vitamins!
I suggest you watch a video recipe for making a classic sorrel soup with meat
Bon appetit and see you new recipes!
Sorrel soup is a healthy first course, which is recommended to be prepared after winter vitamin deficiency, because it contains a lot of necessary elements.
Classic sorrel soup with eggs is the simplest recipe with a minimum set of ingredients.
Sorrel soup with chicken is another way to make a delicious and satisfying lunch for the whole family.
Lenten sorrel soup is an easy dish for fasting or a diet with lots of vitamins.
Sorrel soup with stewed meat - a recipe for when you have very little time, but you need something tasty, filling and with meat.
Soup cooked in a slow cooker retains much more nutrients than soup made on the stove in a regular saucepan.
Since the sorrel season is short, it is worth freezing or rolling it in advance, so that you can prepare a healthy dish at any time of the year.
It turns out that sorrel can be used to make not only standard soup, but also puree soup.
Simple and delicious soup recipes for every day
Delicious sorrel soup is not at all difficult to prepare. Just look carefully at our detailed cooking recipe with photos and videos. Surprise your family!
1 hour 30 minutes
145 kcal
4.78/5 (18)
In spring and early summer, our body requires a lot of vitamins that were wasted over the winter. In addition to various salads, young sorrel can come to our aid. It contains a large composition of useful substances that we need. For example, it contains even more vitamin C than apple pulp.
These are B vitamins, which strengthen our nerves, heart and entire body. It also contains the potassium, iron and phosphorus we need, as well as the “beautiful” vitamins A and E. It contains a lot of vitamin C and organic acids such as sorrel, apple and lemon.
Sorrel does not lose its qualities when frozen and preserved. Therefore, it can be used all year round. Sorrel is choleretic, hemostatic and anthelmintic. It would take a long time to list all the advantages of these wonderful green leaves.
I offer you a recipe for a vitamin-rich and very tasty soup with sorrel and egg. It cooks quite quickly and, in combination with fresh herbs, turns out not only tasty, but also very healthy. You can prepare sorrel all year round: in the summer - from fresh sorrel, in the winter - from frozen. In a similar way, you can prepare soup with another popular healthy herb - sour cabbage, or, as it is popularly called, Bashkir cabbage.
Kitchenware: grater, frying pan, cutting board, saucepan, saucepan.
For soup it is better to use lean meat. I prefer veal, and sometimes I make this chicken soup. You can also make this soup without any meat at all, and it will also be very tasty.
Cooking broth
Basic preparation
Enjoy your meal! It turns out very tasty!
In the same way you can prepare vitamin
Sorrel soup with eggs is a traditional Russian dish that is usually prepared in the summer, when sorrel becomes available for sale. This dish itself is versatile and low-calorie and can be served hot or cold.
Preparing sorrel soup with eggs according to the classic method will not take you more than half an hour, and the benefits and refreshing taste will energize you for the whole day. So let's get started.
Peel the potatoes and cut into small cubes.
Place the potatoes in a saucepan, add 2 liters of water and put on fire. At the moment of boiling, remove any foam that has formed.
While our potatoes are cooking, let's start frying. Grate the carrots and finely chop the onion.
Pour 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil into a frying pan and lightly fry the vegetables for about 5 minutes, stirring.
About 5-7 minutes after the water boils in a pan with potatoes, add our frying to it. Reduce heat and leave to simmer for 10 minutes.
In the meantime, it is necessary to free the sorrel leaves from the stems and chop them randomly.
Break 5 eggs into a bowl and lightly whisk them with a whisk or fork. It is worth noting here that there are two ways to prepare sorrel soup: with hard-boiled eggs and with finely chopped eggs. I chose to cook with raw eggs because I like it better.
Add sorrel to the pan, stir gently and cook for 3-4 minutes.
Then, continuing to stir the soup, pour beaten chicken eggs into it in a thin stream.
Pour classic sorrel soup with eggs into bowls and serve hot or cold, optionally with sour cream.
Bon appetit!