I have to transpose my box of loose-leaf recipes into a book I got for recipes, so I'm gonna share my favorite one.
Solyanka.
It makes enough to feed an army, and it's a go-to for if you're getting over a sickness and are not throwing up.
Make Ukha for if you're that sick.
Anyways.
Ingredients;
2 liters water
4 pickles, kosher
1 glass of pickle juice
2 onions
20-ish black olives
150 grams of beef
150 grams of ham
150 grams of doctors sausage
4 hot dog wieners
2 tablespoons capers
3 potatoes (mid-small)
like a palmful of dill
same for parsley
2 carrots
2 bay leaves
1 can tomato paste
2-3 tablespoons salt (no that's not a typo, you need that much cuz ur making ur own broth)
Cut the beef into fist-sized chunks.
Fry it so that all sides are browned. This will make it taste better and be more tender.
Put water in pot, a BIG pot. No, bigger. This is gonna make more than you think. Now add the beef to the water. Now boil for 30 minutes.
Cut up sausage, wieners, and ham into bite-sized pieces. Set aside.
Cut up pickles, onions, carrots, olives and potatoes. Separate the olives and potatoes from this mix. Now separate the olives and potatoes from each other.
Check if beef is cooked all the way through. When it is, cut it into bite-sized pieces. Fry it with the other meat in a pan. You may need a wok.
In fact, save yourself the trouble and just get a wok.
In another pan, fry the onions, carrots, pickles, and tomato paste for about 5 minutes. 6 if you're not a coward.
Boil disgusting beef water again, but with potatoes in it this time. Boil for around 15 minutes.
ALL ingredients in the pot now. Your fried veggies, olives, meats, bay leaves, dill, salt, all of it.
Boil for 40 minutes. Not a roiling boil, but like, a soft chill one. Best results; roiling boil on medium-high, slap lid on it, and take that down to medium.
Does not freeze well, keeps for 4 days when refrigerated, so I hope you like it because you'll be eating it for breakfast lunch and dinner.
I am not joking this makes way more than you think it will.
