To cook a delicious, fragrant pickle it is not necessary to use meat at all, there are many no less interesting recipes for pickle without meat.
Cooking soup in vegetable or mushroom broth, by the way, is a great option for a hearty hot post.
Meatless pickle - general cooking principles
Cooking pickle on any non-meat broth. To make it saturated, when preparing it, you can add roots, herbs, carrots, spices to it.
The technology itself is straightforward: we put potatoes and cereals in the prepared broth, bring them to readiness, then add the vegetable sauté from onions, carrots, you can also use bell peppers and tomatoes.
If we use mushrooms for taste and satiety, we take a fresh, frozen or even pickled product. Stew the mushrooms, fry them and put them into the broth along with sauté. When using dried mushrooms, they are first soaked in water.
Be sure to put cucumbers in the pickle without meat, pickled or barrel pickles are ideal, but in the absence of it you can also use pickled ones. Cucumbers are cut into thin strips or rubbed coarsely, put in the broth at the very end of cooking or passéed together with vegetables. It is acceptable to cook pickle without cucumbers, but in this case it would be nice to put salted mushrooms in the soup for taste.
We add cereal soup for satiety: we use barley or rice. If we put the rice, it is enough to just thoroughly rinse it, soak the pearl barley first, then boil it in a separate saucepan until half-cooked, only then put it into the broth.
Salt pickle without meat at the end of cooking, put salt to taste, but usually a little. The desired acidity can be achieved by pouring cucumber pickle into the broth.
Ready soup before serving, we insist, serve, seasoned with sour cream or mayonnaise sauce. Sprinkle the soup in plates with fresh herbs, you can add black pepper, olives or olives cut into rings. Delicious pickle without meat with freshly prepared homemade garlic croutons, breadcrumbs.
Recipe 1. Meatless pickle
Ingredients:
• barley - 3 tablespoons;
• 5 small potato tubers;
• onion head;
• 1 carrot;
• 2 pickles;
• brine from cucumbers - 130 ml;
• Lavrushka - 2 leaves;
• 5 peas of allspice.
How to cook:
1. Rinse the cereal, put it in boiling water and cook for 15 minutes.
2. Peel the potatoes, cut into cubes, add to the barley, put the lavrushka, seasoning, salt.
3. Grate the carrots on a grater with small teeth, onion - cut into small crumbs, put the vegetables in a pan with vegetable oil and fry until frying.
4. Cut pickles into a thin semicircle.
5. When the potatoes are soft, put the roast and pickles in the soup, cook for a few more minutes.
6. Pour in the brine.
7. Serve with greens and a tablespoon of sour cream.
Recipe 2. Pickle without meat with rice
Ingredients:
• pickles - 4 pcs.;
• rice - 4 tablespoons;
• 2 potatoes;
• 2 carrots;
• onion head;
• a bunch of green onion feathers;
• garlic - 4 cloves;
• tomato puree - 50 g;
• cilantro, parsley, dill - half a bunch;
• 50 ml of cooking oil.
How to cook:
1. Put potato cubes in a deep enameled dish with hot salted water, boil a little.
2. At the end of this time, add the washed rice groats to the broth.
3. Grind carrots, chop the onion with crumbs, garlic through a garlic press, put everything in a frying pan with oil and fry for 5 minutes.
4. At the end of this time, put the tomato in the vegetables, fry for several minutes.
5. Grind the cucumbers.
6. Once the potatoes and rice are soft, put in the soup fried vegetables with tomato, cucumbers and chopped parsley, cilantro and dill, cook for a few more minutes.
7. Remove from heat and infuse soup for half an hour.
8. Serve with sour cream.
Recipe 3. Pickle without meat with mushrooms
Ingredients:
• any dry mushrooms - 400 g;
• 7 medium potatoes;
• 2 liters of water;
• 3 pickled cucumbers;
• 2 onion heads;
• celery root and parsley root;
• frying oil - 30 ml;
• flour - 20 g;
• seasoning for soup, salt - 20 g;
• parsley leaves - half a bunch.
How to cook:
1. Soak the washed mushrooms in water for 2 hours.
2. Put the mushrooms in a metal container, fill with the same water, where they were soaked and cook until soft.
3. Once ready, remove the mushrooms with a slotted spoon, and strain the broth.
4. Pour another 2 liters of water into the broth, boil and add potatoes, sliced with an average cube, bring to bubbling bubbles.
5. Onion cut into half rings, parsley and celery roots in strips, fry for several minutes.
6. Boiled mushrooms cut into thin strips, put in a pot pan, cook over medium heat for 20 minutes.
7. Dice the cucumbers and simmer in a frying pan with a small amount of broth for about 3 minutes.
8. Add fried onions with roots and cucumbers to the soup.
9. Separately, in a dry frying pan, fry the flour a little, pour in soup, boil for 3 minutes.
10. 3 minutes before cooking, sprinkle chopped parsley leaves.
11. Remove the soup from the heat and leave for 20 minutes.
12. Serve to the table, sprinkled with herbs.
Recipe 4. Meatless pickle with fresh cabbage
Ingredients:
• barley - 2 small handfuls;
• 3 large potatoes;
• 1 carrot;
• onion head;
• 3 pickled cucumbers;
• half a cup of fresh cabbage;
• frying oil - 60 ml;
• 4 cloves of garlic;
• ground allspice - 30 g;
• salt - optional.
• seasoning - 30 g;
• dill leaves - half a bunch.
How to cook:
1. Put the washed barley in a pot of boiling water, cook for 20 minutes.
2. Cut the potatoes with a medium cube, cabbage - with small strips, put the ingredients in a pan when the cereal is completely cooked.
3. Grate carrots on a grater, onion - rings, fry in oil for several minutes.
4. Grind the peeled cucumbers on a grater.
5. When the potatoes and cabbage become soft, put the frying in the broth and pickles, season with seasoning, salt, add pepper, cook for several minutes.
6. In 2 minutes, add chopped herbs and finely chopped garlic.
7. Let the soup cook for half an hour.
8. Serve with sour cream, next to you can put a flat plate with croutons.
Recipe 5. Pickle without meat with wheat groats
Ingredients:
• wheat groats - half a glass;
• chicken seasoning "maggie" - 2 teaspoons;
• 2 potatoes;
• 1 carrot;
• 1 onion;
• pickled cucumbers - 2 pcs.;
• ketchup - 50 g;
• olive oil for frying;
• a bunch of green leaves of parsley, cilantro.
How to cook:
1. Pour magga chicken seasoning into boiling water, boil until it is completely dissolved.
2. Pour wheat groats into the broth with potatoes, chopped into small sticks and cook over low heat until the potatoes soften.
3. Chop the onion finely, cut the carrots into circles, and cucumbers in a small cube.
4. Put onions with carrots in a pan with olive oil and fry a little.
5. Add cucumbers to vegetables, add salt, pepper and fry for another 3 minutes.
6. Add a little tomato ketchup and fry another 2 minutes.
7. Put the frying in the soup, boil a little and remove from heat.
8. Serve, spilled on portioned plates, sprinkled with herbs, putting a little sour cream. Place brown bread on a separate plate next to it.
Recipe 6. Pickle without meat with millet
Ingredients:
• 4 potatoes;
• 1 carrot;
• onion head;
• pickled cucumbers - 3 pcs.;
• millet - 2 handfuls;
• leaf of lavrushka;
• 4 peas of allspice;
• oil for the passage of vegetables - 50 ml;
• salt - optional;
• a bunch of parsley.
How to cook:
1. Rinse millet and put in a pan with boiling water along with allspice and lavrushka, boil for 10 minutes.
2. Cut the potatoes into a cube, put in a pan, cook for 15 minutes.
3. Grate the carrots, chop the onion with crumbs, fry in a pan in oil.
4. Cut the cucumbers into small cubes.
5. After the potatoes are completely softened, add the roast and pickles, add some salt, if necessary, add any seasoning and boil for 5 minutes.
6. Remove from heat and insist.
7. Serve such a dietary pickle in portioned dishes, sprinkled with herbs and put a tablespoon of mayonnaise.
Meat-free pickle - tricks and tips
• The soup will be tastier if you add fresh tomatoes or tomato paste to the sauté.
• Put the finished frying into the broth only after all the other ingredients are ready.
• If you decide to add brine from a can with cucumbers to the soup, it is better to boil it first, so the broth will not cloud.
• You can also use lemon juice or citric acid to give the pickle acidity.
• To make the broth transparent-beautiful, put the peeled potatoes before putting them in the soup for half an hour in cold water, so all the starch comes out of the vegetable.
• To make the soup hearty, not empty, make it thicker, put more ingredients, use all kinds of dressings and sauces when serving.
• Home-made crackers will also give satiety to the dish. In addition, they will decorate even the simplest soup. You can cook them in the oven or microwave, adding, for example, garlic or spices.
• Want a light soup? Do not passer vegetables, put chopped onions and carrots in the broth along with potatoes, cucumbers at the very end.
• It is better to put fresh greens in a ready-made pickle, dried - in the cooking process.
• Spices and spices will make the taste of pickle without meat more interesting and rich.
