Classic hodgepodge with potatoes and sausage

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to cook a classic prefabricated hodgepodge with potatoes and sausage?Prepare the necessary ingredients. It is better to use beef from meat. If you need a richer broth, then with a bone. I just have a pulp without a bone. You can also take any sausage: boiled-smoked, smoked or boiled. Tomato paste can be replaced with tomato ketchup.

2. Step 2:

   

   Peel the onion. If you are going to use an onion in frying (step 12), then you need to cut it into small cubes. I use a whole onion when cooking broth and then throw it away (step 10).

3. Step 3:

   

   Rinse the meat thoroughly. Put a whole piece of beef and a whole onion in a saucepan. Pour 3.5 liters of water into a saucepan.

4. Step 4:

   

   Boil the meat until tender over medium heat for 1 hour, removing the foam that will stand out during cooking.

5. Step 5:

   

   Remove the meat from the broth and cut into small cubes. The size of the meat pieces should be about the same as that of sausage and cucumbers.

6. Step 6:

   

   Strain the broth, discard the onion. Return the pan to the heat. Bring the broth to a boil again.

7. Step 7:

   

   Wash, peel and cut the potatoes into medium cubes. It is not necessary to cut too finely - the soup is cooked for a long time and small potatoes can boil too much, and it is inconvenient to eat large ones.

8. Step 8:

   

   Peel and grate the carrots on a coarse grater.

9. Step 9:

   

   Cut the pickles into cubes.

11. Step 10:

    

    Both types of sausage are also cut into cubes. It so happened that for solyanka and everything is cut into cubes, and not the usual cubes. It is believed that the taste of the whole dish depends on the slicing, but of course you can slice as you like.

12. Step 11:

    

    Put the potatoes in the broth and cook over medium heat until the potatoes are ready (about 20 minutes). Even if the potatoes are not cooked after this time, they will come to readiness already with frying.

13. Step 12:

    

    Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan. Put carrots, cucumbers, smoked and boiled sausage, boiled beef. Mix everything and fry, stirring, over medium heat for about 5-7 minutes. This will give the whole roast, and subsequently the finished hodgepodge a light smoked taste and aroma.

14. Step 13:

    

    Add tomato paste to the pan, stir and simmer for another 2 minutes.

15. Step 14:

    

    Add the frying pan to the pan, the meat cut in advance and mix.

16. Step 15:

    

    Season the soup with salt and pepper and add the bay leaves. Bring the hodgepodge to a boil again and cook for another 10 minutes.

17. Step 16:

    

    To serve, we will need pitted olives and half a lemon cut into circles. They can be added separately to each plate.

18. Step 17:

    

    I add lemon and olives immediately to the pot with the hodgepodge.

19. Step 18:

    

    Cover the pan with a lid and let the hodgepodge brew for another 10 minutes. Enjoy your meal!