Beef solyanka with sausage onion tomato paste

We will need a 3 liter pot and a frying pan with sides.

1. Beef. It does not matter which part, it does not matter whether it is on the bone or without, with veins or tenderloin, the main thing is that it is not hard otherwise you will have to cook for a very long time. The main broth we will have from sausages.

I usually take beef neck for this dish. It should be put in a whole piece in a saucepan and pour water. To cook the meat faster, it can be cut into large pieces across the fibers.

We will cook the meat until ready, constantly removing the foam.

2. While the meat is cooking, you can prepare a dressing - cut the sausage into strips (if you use hunting sausages, then they can be cut into rings), cut cucumbers into strips and onions into half rings.

I usually buy boiled-smoked or semi-smoked sausages, hunting sausages, smoked pork ribs for this dish.

If desired, instead of pickled cucumbers, you can use salted ones, but I advise pickled ones, salted ones will stand out to taste.

3. When the meat is ready, it must be removed, cut into strips and returned to the broth. At the same time, we do not turn off the broth, but reduce it to a minimum.

4. Fry the sliced sausages in a dry frying pan and add to the broth.

5. On the fat left after frying the sausages, fry the onion, then the pickled cucumbers. If there is not enough fat, you can add a little vegetable oil. At this stage, you can add tomato paste to onions and cucumbers. Add fried onions and cucumbers to the broth.

6. If tomato paste was not added at the previous stage, then add it to the broth. Mix everything thoroughly and let it boil.

7. After boiling, you need to cook for 2-3 minutes. Add pepper, bay leaf, olives and /or olives, salt to taste (keep in mind that the sausage delicacies are already salty and they will give their salt to the soup). Depending on the size of the lemon, it needs to be divided into 2-4 slices, squeeze the juice out of them into the soup and send the slices themselves there. You can add a couple of tablespoons of pickled cucumbers to the soup.

Let the soup brew for 30 minutes.

You can serve it with sour cream.