Simple soup with sprats

To prepare this soup, you need very few simple and inexpensive ingredients, but in the end you get a full-fledged, and most importantly delicious dish!

Pour water into a saucepan and put it to boil. In boiling water, we throw diced potatoes and pre-washed rice. Half of the carrots are cut into circles and also thrown into boiling water. The second half will be used for frying.

While the ingredients are cooking, it will take about 15 minutes, prepare the roast. In the oil heated in a frying pan, we pass the onion and green bell pepper cut into small cubes, then add the carrots grated on a fine grater and fry until the onion becomes transparent. Add ground black pepper to the roast. You can also add any other spices that you like, suitable for fish.

When the potatoes and rice in the pan become soft, add our roast to the soup and cook for a couple of minutes. Then put the sprats from the jar, separated from the oil, in a saucepan. There is enough oil in the frying, it is not necessary that the soup is too greasy. Salt the soup to taste, and throw a bay leaf. Cook for another 2-3 minutes, then close the lid, turn off the stove and let the soup brew for 10-15 minutes.

Before serving, sprinkle the soup with finely chopped green onions. You can also add dill. 

You can throw one whole onion into the soup, at the stage of cooking potatoes, so that the broth turns out even more saturated.

Counting the addition of sprats to the soup, the dish turns out very fragrant, with a light taste of smoke and is great for a weekday dinner or lunch.

It is better to add whole sprats to the soup, so the dish it turns out very beautiful when served. And sliced carrots add brightness and saturation to the soup.

By right, this soup can be considered a fish dish, but unlike fish soup, there is no need to bother with cleaning and processing fish. Sprats are already ready, it remains only to get them out of the jar and you can put them in the soup. Bon appetit!