Solyanka with Beef, Sausage, and Smoked Ribs

Looking for a flavor explosion? Make solyanka! This solyanka with beef, sausage, and smoked pork ribs is a real centerpiece soup — it's sure to win people over and surprise them with its wonderful, tangy taste.

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 38 % 5 g
Fats 54 % 7 g
Carbohydrates 8 % 1 g
100 kcal
GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Cooking method

  1. Step 1:

    Step 1

    Gather everything you'll need to make this hearty mixed-meat solyanka.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2

    Pour 3 liters of cold water into a pot and add 400 grams of bone-in beef.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3

    Add a little onion and carrot to the pot, set it over high heat, and bring to a boil.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4

    Roughly chop 2 onions — not too fine.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5

    Pour a little vegetable oil into a skillet.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6

    Add the chopped onion and sauté over medium heat until translucent.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7

    Grate 1 medium carrot on the coarse side of a grater.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8

    Add the grated carrot to the onion in the skillet.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9

    Sauté the vegetables for 2 minutes, stirring.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10

    Skim the foam off the boiling broth, lower the heat, and keep cooking the beef for about an hour and a half, until fully tender.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11

    Add 2–3 tablespoons of tomato paste to the onion and carrot in the skillet.

  12. Step 12:

    Step 12

    Stir everything together well in the skillet.

  13. Step 13:

    Step 13

    Add 2 ladles of broth to the skillet, stir, lower the heat to its minimum, cover, and let the vegetables simmer.

  14. Step 14:

    Step 14

    Cut as much hunter's sausage (a smoked, semi-dry sausage) as you like into small pieces.

  15. Step 15:

    Step 15

    Put the sliced sausage into a skillet without any added oil.

  16. Step 16:

    Step 16

    Cut a little dry-cured sausage into strips and add it to the skillet, too.

  17. Step 17:

    Step 17

    Cut a little semi-smoked sausage into strips and add it to the skillet.

  18. Step 18:

    Step 18

    Cut some ham into strips and add it to the same skillet.

  19. Step 19:

    Step 19

    Take the sautéed onion-and-carrot mixture off the heat.

  20. Step 20:

    Step 20

    Set the skillet of sliced meats over medium heat and fry, stirring.

  21. Step 21:

    Step 21

    Cut the aromatic smoked ribs into pieces.

  22. Step 22:

    Step 22

    Add the cut smoked ribs to the pot of simmering broth.

  23. Step 23:

    Step 23

    Cut 400 grams of bologna sausage into strips.

  24. Step 24:

    Step 24

    Fry the smoked sausage and ham until appetizingly golden.

  25. Step 25:

    Step 25

    Add the sliced bologna sausage to the fried smoked meats in the skillet and mix together well.

  26. Step 26:

    Step 26

    Cut 2 medium pickles into small dice.

  27. Step 27:

    Step 27

    Cut the cooked beef into strips.

  28. Step 28:

    Step 28

    Return the sliced beef to the pot of broth.

  29. Step 29:

    Step 29

    Add the sautéed onion and carrot to the pot.

  30. Step 30:

    Step 30

    Add the fried sausage and ham to the pot, too.

  31. Step 31:

    Step 31

    Add the diced pickles to the pot and stir everything together well.

  32. Step 32:

    Step 32

    Add bay leaf to taste, cover, and bring to a boil, then lower the heat and cook the solyanka gently for another 10 minutes.

  33. Step 33:

    Step 33

    Slice 15 black olives into rings.

  34. Step 34:

    Step 34

    Add chopped parsley, dill, and basil to the pot, to taste.

  35. Step 35:

    Step 35

    Add the sliced olives to the pot 5 minutes before the solyanka is done.

  36. Step 36:

    Step 36

    Stir everything together and let the solyanka rest for half an hour. Ladle it into bowls and serve with a slice of lemon and a dollop of sour cream.

  37. Step 37:

    Step 37

    Cook together, cook simply, cook the tastiest dishes at home from everyday ingredients with our recipes. Enjoy!

  • If you love a savory, deeply flavored soup with a knockout aroma, this solyanka is for you. It's built from simple ingredients you probably already have in the fridge, and in just a few minutes of active work you get a full meal that's part soup, part main course. It comes together quickly and easily, looks like a million bucks, and tastes flawless.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Melted beef fat - 871  kcal/100g
  • Fat beef - 171  kcal/100g
  • Lean beef - 158  kcal/100g
  • Beef brisket - 217  kcal/100g
  • Beef - okovalok - 380  kcal/100g
  • Beef - lean roast - 200  kcal/100g
  • Beef shoulder - 137  kcal/100g
  • Beef - ribs - 233  kcal/100g
  • Beef - ham - 104  kcal/100g
  • Beef - tail - 184  kcal/100g
  • Boiled ham - 269  kcal/100g
  • Beef corned beef - 216  kcal/100g
  • Lemon - 16  kcal/100g
  • Lemon zest - 47  kcal/100g
  • Carrots - 33  kcal/100g
  • Dried carrots - 275  kcal/100g
  • Boiled carrots - 25  kcal/100g
  • Olives - 166  kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873  kcal/100g
  • Tomato paste - 28  kcal/100g
  • Sausage 'amateur' - 291  kcal/100g
  • Sausage 'Ukrainian' - 404  kcal/100g
  • Diabetic sausage - 254  kcal/100g
  • Sausage 'doctor' - 197  kcal/100g
  • Diet sausage - 170  kcal/100g
  • Sausage 'milk' - 252  kcal/100g
  • Smoked sausage - 507  kcal/100g
  • Water - 0  kcal/100g
  • Onion - 41  kcal/100g
  • Pickles - 11  kcal/100g
  • Fresh frozen soup greens in a package - 41  kcal/100g
  • Greenery - 41  kcal/100g
  • Smoked pork ribs - 514  kcal/100g

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