It is believed that the recipe for sauerkrauts was brought from China. There are evidence that in the third century BC. e. When the workers were erected by the Great Wall of China, linked cabbage, painted in rice fault. The only thing that was not a white cabbage, but Chinese (pack), or Beijing, which is more like a salad.
In Russia, sauer (or acidic) cabbage has always been honored. And still remains a popular product in the cold time. Nutritionists believe that it is necessary to include such cabbage in the diet, as it is useful for the digestive system and has low calorie (per 100 g - 30 kcal). The content of nutrients and vitamins sour cabbage is ahead of many fresh vegetables and berries, which is especially valuable in winter.
Bigus.
Ingredients: 500 g sauerkraut, 500 g of fresh white cabbage, 2 bulbs, 1 carrot, 500 g of pork, 200 g boiled beef (you can take ham), 200 g hunting sausages, 3 tbsp. Tomato paste, sugar, salt, pepper.
Cooking method: In the Kazan or a saucepan with a thick bottom to fry onion, sliced with small cubes. Carrot grate on a coarse grater and add to the bow. When carrots are soft, add a sauer cauldron there, which you first need to squeeze well so that there is no brine. Cover the lid and leave to extinguish minutes for 20. Fresh cabbage finely chopping, salt and melt hands to let juice. Then add tooling to sauerkraut. Pork cut into small pieces and fry in a frying pan until a golden crust. Then shifting to the cabbage, mix well and leave to steal under the lid. After 10-15 minutes, add sugar to taste, salt, pepper, canine. Tomato paste dilute in a small amount of water and pour into Bigus. Mix everything and leave to steal about half an hour. Cut on the cubes of beef and on the circles of sausages. Add meat to Bigus. Stir and leave to extinguish another hour, until readiness.
Soup with white mushrooms
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Soup with white mushrooms
Ingredients: 500 g sauerkraut, 500 g of pork or 500 g beef, 4-5 potatoes, 1 bulb, 1 carrot, handful of dried mushrooms, 2-3 slices of garlic.
Cooking method: Cabbage put it in a saucepan at about an hour, adding a piece of butter. Swift meat broth. If the meat was a bone, then it is better to strain the broth. Potatoes clean and boil separately. Then the pretty fever. Mushrooms soak. Then boil. Mushroom broth strain and pour to meat. Onions cut into cubes, grate carrots on a shallow grater. Fry onions first, then add carrots. When carrots are ready, put mushrooms and fry. Cut the meat with pieces. In the broth put meat, roasted mushrooms, cabbage and potato mashed potatoes. Salt to taste, pepper, add bay leaf. Slaughter Five minutes before readiness to add garlic and chopped greens.