Russian
Rassolnik (Pickled Cucumber and Barley Soup)
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Rassolnik (Pickled Cucumber and Barley Soup) is Russian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the soup. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Simmer the beef chuck in 8 cups of water with the bay leaf for 1 hour, then lift out, shred, and reserve the broth.
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Rinse the barley and simmer it in the broth 25 minutes until tender.
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Saute the diced onion and carrot in the oil 5 minutes, then add to the pot with the chunked potatoes.
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Simmer 15 minutes until the potatoes are tender.
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Stir in the diced pickles and the beef and season with salt and pepper.
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Discard the bay leaf and serve hot topped with sour cream and dill.
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Serve it with
A Russian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Rassolnik (Pickled Cucumber and Barley Soup), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Rassolnik (Pickled Cucumber and Barley Soup) carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Gorohovyi Sup (Split Pea Soup with Smoked Sausage) |
| Gluten | Yes | Boiled Potatoes with Dill and Butter |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 560 kcal
- Protein
- 24 g
- Carbs
- 37 g
- Fat
- 35 g
- Fiber
- 7 g
- Sugar
- 3 g
- Sodium
- 880 mg
- Saturated fat
- 13 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Rassolnik (Pickled Cucumber and Barley Soup) takes about 55 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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