Beef kharcho soup with rice

The tastiest, original, healthy, for lunch for the family! Beef kharcho soup with rice is one of the best in Georgian cuisine. It is thick, rich, satisfying, fragrant, rich in spices. You can eat it endlessly, and it's easier to cook - any beginner will cope with the first time!
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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 31 % 4 g
Fats 38 % 5 g
Carbohydrates 31 % 4 g
77 kcal
GI: 25 / 75 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h 30 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to cook beef kharcho soup with rice? Prepare the ingredients. It is preferable to take round rice - it looks better in soup, it does not boil. Bottled or filtered water. Beef can be replaced with other meat, if there is a desire. Wash the vegetables and herbs and dry them with paper napkins.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Wash the beef and cut into medium pieces. Transfer the chopped meat to the pot in which you will cook the soup.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Peel the onion and put it in a saucepan with the whole meat. Add salt and pepper.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Pour 2 liters of water into a saucepan. Put the pan on the fire, bring the water to a boil and cook the meat for about 1 hour, periodically removing the foam. Determine the exact cooking time by your stove.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    While the meat is cooking, rinse the rice thoroughly in cold water.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Chop the walnuts finely.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Peel the garlic and chop it finely as well.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Wash the cilantro, dry it and chop it finely.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    When the meat is cooked, add the rice to the broth, cook for about 7 minutes over medium heat. If the broth is boiling strongly, reduce the heat a little.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Then add tkemali, chopped nuts, crushed garlic, adjika, hops-suneli and ground black pepper to the soup. Taste the soup and add salt if necessary. Stir, bring to a boil and cook for a couple more minutes. You can not add Adjika at all, if your tkemali is already sharp. My tkemali was practical and not sharp, so I added adjika.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    At the very end, add chopped cilantro to the kharcho.

  12. Step 12:

    Step 12.

    Remove the pan from the stove, cover with a lid and let the soup brew for about 15 minutes. Bon appetit!

A characteristic distinguishing feature of this national Georgian dish from other meat soups is the use in cooking only beef (in Georgian "dzrokhis khortsi harshot" means "beef soup"), tkemali plums and grated walnuts.
According to the "classic" recipe, these three components cannot be removed from the dish or replaced with others. And although often, when specifying a kharcho recipe, they specify which area of Georgia the recipe belongs to (there are kharcho soups in Georgian, in Megrelian, etc.), these three components remain unchanged. This is the basis.
It is allowed to replace tkemali sauce with fresh cherry plum.
There is some myth in Russia that Georgian dishes are primarily spicy dishes. And Kharcho in canteens and cafes is sometimes served excessively spicy. Although this is not quite right. The finished soup should be spicy, not spicy. In Georgia, they generally prefer dishes with an abundance of taste nuances, so trying to recreate the taste of a Georgian dish by simply adding more hot pepper to the pan will not work in any way. It is necessary to use aromatic herbs and ready-made mixtures of seasonings, for example, hops-suneli.

For cooking, it is better to use filtered or bottled water that is neutral to taste. If you use tap water, keep in mind that it can give the dish an unpleasant characteristic taste.

The amount of water specified in the recipe can be reduced or increased at your request, depending on whether you want to get a thick or more liquid soup.

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

  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g
  • 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
  • Walnuts - 650   kcal/100g
  • Black Walnut English Walnut - 628   kcal/100g
  • Black Persian Walnut - 651   kcal/100g
  • Walnut oil - 925   kcal/100g
  • Garlic - 143   kcal/100g
  • Hop-suneli - 417   kcal/100g
  • Adjika - 59   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Water - 0   kcal/100g
  • Coriander greens - 25   kcal/100g
  • Tkemali - 418   kcal/100g
  • Round rice - 330   kcal/100g

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