Kitchen appliances and utensils: kitchen stove, frying pan, kitchen board, knife, pan, sieve, ladle, grater, deep bowl, colander, kitchen scale, spoon, bowl for soup.
Ingredients
Dried forest mushrooms | 100 g |
Potatoes | 3 pcs. |
Onion | 1 PC. |
Carrot | 1 PC. |
Pearl barley | 2 tbsp. l |
Odorless vegetable oil | 2 tbsp. l |
Salt | taste |
Sour cream | taste |
Any greens | taste |
Water | 2 l |
Step cooking
- We will prepare all the ingredients and the desktop. We wash well 100 g of dried forest mushrooms, send them into a deep bowl and fill with cold water so that it covers all the mushrooms. Leave for 3 hours to make them soft and give the mushroom flavor to the broth to the maximum. You can soak the mushrooms in the evening at night. If you do not have time for such a long soaking, then to speed up the process, you can pour mushrooms in boiling water for 30-60 minutes.
- 2 tbsp. l wash pearl barley several times under running water and put it in a colander to allow excess glass water. In order for it to cook quickly, you can soak it overnight in cold water. In a saucepan in which soup will be cooked, through a fine sieve with salt, broth from mushrooms. We add another 2 liters of cold water, pour the washed barley and put it on a big fire to boil.
- In the meantime, cut the mushrooms into small pieces. Send them to the soup. After boiling the broth, boil barley with mushrooms for 15 to 20 minutes.
- While the soup is boiling, prepare the remaining ingredients. We cut three medium-sized potatoes into a cube and fill it with water so that it does not darken and gives away excess starch. Potatoes can also be cut into strips, slicing depends on your preference.
- We cut one onion into a small cube. Grate carrots on a coarse grater.
- We put the pan on the stove, pour 2 tbsp. l Flavourless vegetable oil and heat. We send chopped onions to the pan, fry for several minutes. Then add the grated carrots to the onion, and stirring occasionally, sauté for 5 to 7 minutes over medium heat until the vegetables are soft and lightly brown.
- Pour the chopped potatoes into the soup, mix and cook for another 20 - 25 minutes over low heat.
- After this time, we send the sauté from onions and carrots to the soup, mix well and cook for another 5 minutes.
- At the very end, salt the soup to taste, turn off the heat, cover the pan with a lid and let it brew for 10 to 15 minutes. Optionally, add bay leaf and black pepper peas. Pour the soup into plates, sprinkle with any chopped herbs to taste and serve with sour cream.
Enjoy your meal!
Video recipe
In the attached video recipe, you can see what foods you need, how to prepare all the ingredients, the sequence of adding them to the soup, so that you get a very tasty, satisfying and aromatic first dish. Enjoy watching!