It is believed that one of the most popular first courses is hodgepodge. Even to compare with some other soups, my hand will not rise. It's not just soup. I would say a work of culinary art, a kind of symphony!

Meat hodgepodge is a dish that can be served on the festive table, not to mention even ordinary everyday life in the family circle. It turns out a very tasty, hearty and, of course, fragrant soup, I'm sure that everyone always likes hodgepodge - both adults and children. And with all this, there is nothing complicated in cooking. Of course, there are some rules, some secrets and subtleties, but this is not at all a dish that would be so scary to take on.

I have a certain number of recipes for preparing a classic meat hodgepodge for you. And now I will tell you how I cook it - as a result of my photo recipes, I am one hundred percent sure.

And so, let's get started!

Before you start considering recipes, you need to learn some rules. How to properly cook meat hodgepodge at home so that it does not deviate from the traditional version of such a tasty and satisfying soup cooked both in meat and fish broth, of a certain consistency, with a spicy-sour pleasant taste and such an awesome aroma.

General accepted rules in the preparation of meat hodgepodge in your home:

Tomato puree should be fried over low heat in a frying pan using oil, separately from onions until reddish-brown.

Onion - of course, is an indispensable ingredient in any combined meat pickle, which we naturally clean first, but then rinse under water and chop. Do not leave the onion soaked in water for a long time and also do not leave it in the air, otherwise it will acquire a not very pleasant smell.

Pickled cucumbers should have elastic and dense pulp. If the skin is flabby or yellowed, then it is better to remove it from the cucumbers, and remove the seeds.

Bones from olives must be removed, and a slice of lemon and olives are placed straight into the hodgepodge.

To give this dish more satiety and fleshiness, you can even use meat ingredients such as tongue, kidneys, udder and heart.

To get the best result in the finished hodgepodge, you need to use at least 4 different meat components, for example, even in the form of ingredients such as sausages, sausage and let there be sausages.

Now let's start looking at the best recipes for preparing this dish.

Recipe for a combined meat classic hodgepodge

This very recipe was taken from a cookery book by William Pokhlebkin, a culinary specialist from God, who certainly knew how to cook a classic hodgepodge correctly. So there is no need to doubt - and if you adhere to all the subtleties, then you will fall in love with this particular soup 100%.

Ingredients:

• Broth - 3 liters
• veal - 850 gr
• smoked brisket - 200 gr
• hunting sausages - 2 pcs
• sausages - 2 pcs
• onion - 1 pc.
• tomatoes - 3 pcs
• garlic - 3 cloves
• pickled cucumber - 4 pcs
• capers - 30 gr
• chili pepper - 1 pc.
• lemon - 1/2 piece
• greens - a bunch.

Cooking method:

We prepare all the necessary products and start cooking. Cut the veal, brisket and peeled onion with garlic into small pieces. Fry everything together in a frying pan in vegetable oil.

Finely chop the capers and tomatoes. Pour into the pan and continue to simmer for another 3-5 minutes.

We shift the entire contents of the pan into the pan, cut the sausages with sausages and pour all the contents with the finished broth. We put the pan on the stove and as soon as the broth boils, the fire must be reduced to low and cook for 20 minutes.

2-3 minutes before the end of readiness, you need to add chopped lemon and sprinkle the soup with herbs.

The dish is ready, remove it from the stove, cover with a lid and leave to brew for five minutes, and then serve it to the table.

Solyanka recipe with sausage

This soup is truly amazing with the aroma of sausage, lemon, olives and seasoned herbs.

Ingredients:

• Water - 3 liters
• half-smoked sausage - 200 gr
• boiled sausage - 150 gr
• pickled cucumber - 2 pcs
• potatoes - 4 pcs
• onion - 1 pc.
• pitted olives - 10 pcs
• peppercorns - 4-5 pcs
• salt, pepper and herbs - to taste.

Cooking method:

1. My potatoes, peel them and cut them into cubes. Pour three liters of water into the pan, bring to a boil, pour chopped potatoes into it.

2. Fry in a pan in vegetable oil the tomatoes cut into medium slices, onion in half rings, sausage strips and cucumbers in a small cube.

4. Before serving, pour the soup into bowls and add a slice of lemon to each.

Solyanka with sausages

This recipe for making hodgepodge with sausages is remarkable in that it contains a large amount of meat. It contains pork, chicken, sausages and, of course, sausage ... In a word, the dish will turn out to be very satisfying!

Ingredients:

• Smoked chicken ham - 200 gr
• pork on the bone - 400 gr
• sausages - 200 gr
• smoked sausage - 100 gr
• pickled cucumbers - 2 pcs
• potatoes - 2 pcs
• onion - 1 pc.
• tomato paste - 4 tbsp. spoons
• olives - 8 pcs
• spices - to taste
• lemon - 1/2 pc.

Cooking method:

Boil the broth from the meat on the bone. Wash, peel, cut the potatoes into strips and throw them into the broth.

Peel, finely chop the onion and fry in oil in a pan until golden brown.

Cucumbers are cut into small strips and thrown into a pan with almost cooked potatoes.

We cut the chicken meat from the ham, sausage and sausages into strips and transfer them to the pan.

We put tomato paste, lemon slices, olives and add the necessary spices, such as: salt, pepper and herbs, or you can add something at your discretion.

We simmer for five minutes on low heat, then remove from the stove.

The soup is ready.

Bon appetit!!!