Description

Mushroom soup with barley and bacon
For the contest "Journey to ancient recipes". This delicious and hearty soup was prepared by my great-grandmother (grandmother of my dad) Vasilisa Petrovna, who lived in the village of Konstantinovo.

Ingredients

  • Mushrooms

    300 g

  • Pearl barley

    2 handful

  • Fat

    200 g

  • Potatoes

    1 piece

  • Carrots

    1 piece

  • Onion

    1 piece

  • Brine

    0.5 cup

  • Bay leaf

  • Sour cream

  • Salt

  • Water

    2.5 l

  • Black pepper

Cooking

step-0
Go to the forest to pick mushrooms or to the market (for me, an avid mushroom picker, the latter is unacceptable :))
step-1
Mushrooms (this time I had chanterelles, boletus, suillus, and makowichuk podobnik) clean my.
step-2
Pour the pearl barley for 1 hour with boiling water, wash, boil until almost cooked.
step-3
Mushrooms cut in big pieces.
step-4
Add them to the pearl barley, cook for 15 minutes.
step-5
Bacon cut into small pieces and fry (vitalium).
step-6
Add porezany onion and grated on a medium grater carrots. Fry until Golden brown.
step-7
Put in the soup chopped potatoes.
step-8
When the potato is cooked, add cucumber pickle.
step-9
Then "fried" with bacon. Sprinkle with salt, allow to simmer on low heat for about five minutes (optional add black pepper and Bay leaf). Turn off, cover the pot and folded into several layers with a large towel, allow to stand for a couple of hours.
step-10
The soup is ready!
step-11
Welcome to the table, help yourself!
step-12
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