Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
How to cook a homemade classic millet cake? Very simple! First, prepare the necessary ingredients according to the list. You can cook kulesh on water or meat broth. When using broth, the dish will turn out with a more pronounced taste.
Step 2:
Boil meat broth or water in a saucepan over medium heat. You can vary the thickness of the kulesh by using more or less broth.
Step 3:
While the broth is boiling, prepare the remaining ingredients. Rinse the millet to clear water.
Step 4:
Wash the potatoes, peel and cut into medium cubes.
Step 5:
Cut the smoked brisket into thin strips. Instead of brisket, you can take lard. In this case, the kulesh will turn out to be fatter.
Step 6:
Peel and grate the carrots on a coarse grater.
Step 7:
Peel the onion and cut into small cubes. If you or your children do not like onions, you can either add it at all or add a whole onion at the stage of cooking potatoes and then throw it away.
Step 8:
Wash the dill, shake off the moisture and chop finely. If desired, you can replace or supplement with other herbs, for example, parsley, cilantro, green onions or use a mixture of different herbs.
Step 9:
Put the potatoes in the boiling broth. Bring to a boil and cook for about 5-7 minutes.
Step 10:
Then pour in the washed millet. Cook on low heat for 5-7 minutes. Millet should not boil too much and lose its shape.
Step 11:
Melt the butter in a frying pan over medium heat. Lay out the onion and fry until transparent.
Step 12:
Add carrots and brisket. Stir-fry for another 5 minutes. If you use lard instead of brisket, first fry it to the state of fried bacon. And then add carrots and onions.
Step 13:
Transfer the roast to a saucepan. Add bay leaves, salt and pepper to taste. Cook for another 5-7 minutes until the millet and potatoes are ready.
Step 14:
At the end, add chopped dill to the kulesh.
Step 15:
Pour the porridge (or soup, as you prefer) on plates and serve to the table. Enjoy your meal!
Kulesh is an old Ukrainian liquid porridge or thick soup. That is, it is both the first and second course, very rich and satisfying.
Important! Regardless of whether the amount of water for soup is indicated in the recipe or not, it is best to focus on your own preferences (thick or more liquid soup you like), as well as on the size of your pan and the products taken for cooking. Do not forget that the author has his own view on the amount of meat, potatoes, cereals and other ingredients in the soup, which may not coincide with yours. In practice, this means that if you are cooking for the first time, you should not cook a whole pot at once. Make a soup for tasting - for one or two people. To do this, reduce the amount of all ingredients according to the recipe to 1-2 servings, and take the amount of water from the calculation: from one cup per serving - if the soup is very thick, to 1.5-2 cups - if more liquid. Do not forget to take into account that part of the liquid will boil off during the cooking process. After tasting a small portion of soup, you can adjust both the amount of liquid and the proportions of ingredients to your taste. In the future, like most experienced housewives, you will be able to pour water for soup and lay the ingredients “by eye".
To make millet porridge delicious, read the article about the subtleties of choice and the secrets of cooking millet groats.
In addition to smoked pork belly, any other type of smoked meat can be used in this dish: bacon, ham, and so on.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Onion - 41 kcal/100g
- Ripe potatoes - 80 kcal/100g
- Baked potatoes - 70 kcal/100g
- Mashed potatoes - 380 kcal/100g
- Boiled potatoes - 82 kcal/100g
- Potatoes in uniform - 74 kcal/100g
- Fried potatoes - 192 kcal/100g
- Carrots - 33 kcal/100g
- Dried carrots - 275 kcal/100g
- Boiled carrots - 25 kcal/100g
- Millet groats - 335 kcal/100g
- Bay leaf - 313 kcal/100g
- Ground black pepper - 255 kcal/100g
- Dill greens - 38 kcal/100g
- Butter 82% - 734 kcal/100g
- Amateur unsalted butter - 709 kcal/100g
- Unsalted peasant butter - 661 kcal/100g
- Peasant salted butter - 652 kcal/100g
- Melted butter - 869 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Meat broth - 34 kcal/100g
- Pork brisket - 155 kcal/100g