Culturevulture ~ Russian traditional soup Grey Shchi

Hello all my dear friends! Today in contest #Culturevulture, organized @eroche I'll tell you about the traditional Russian soup, which has for many centuries the main food of Russian peasants. This is a very interesting dish. It consists of a cabbage medley. It is milled and salted in a special way the top cabbage leaves. In Russia there is an old proverb: "Schi and porridge - our food."

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Soup appeared in the national cuisine in the IX century, when cabbage was introduced from Byzantium. The poor cooked this soup without meat, with chopped bacon. These soup called "empty". Those who could afford meat cooked meat soup in a rich broth. The soup was called "rich". But invariably, the main ingredient remained the cabbage medley.

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(photo from the Internet)

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(photo from the Internet)

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Dish of cooked cabbage in late autumn. When you collect the last harvest of cabbage. The need to use only the top leaves from cabbage. Sheets should be folded in a wooden barrel and chop them with a special knife on a stick. There then need to add chopped carrots and salt. This mixture from the top cover and press some weight. And leave for 5-7 days to ferment. Then with this mix you can prepare the soup.

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To prepare a typical soup you will need

• 500g Medley of cabbage

• 4-5 potatoes

• 1 onion

• meat on the bone

• spices, and salt to taste.

First, cook the broth from the meat. When the meat is ready take it out and shred it into small pieces and add back to broth. There add the potatoes and onions. Cook until the vegetables are tender. Then add the crumbs and leave to stew for 2-3 hours. The crumbs should swell and become soft. This soup made in a big Russian stove. The longer he stewed, the better it became. In the modern world, such stoves are rare. So I was cooking soup in the slow cooker. The finished soup is usually served with sour cream, black bread and lard. Finely chopped garlic can also a good addition.

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