“Zatirukha” Soup with Chicken

A simple recipe for a very tasty and satisfying chicken broth soup – with egg-flour grout. Zatiukha is an old peasant soup, but this is the first time I’ve cooked such an unusual dish, and to be honest, I really liked the soup.

Summary

Ingredients

• Chicken (back) – 150 g
• Eggs – 2 pcs.
• Flour – 6 tbsp
• Potatoes – 2 pcs.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Bulb onions – 1 pc.
• Bay leaf – 1 pc.
• Salt – 0.5 tbsp
• Ground black pepper – 0.3333 teaspoon
• Vegetable oil – for frying
• Green onions (optional) – for serving

Instructions

1. Prepare all the ingredients you need.
   You can cook broth for this soup from chicken, pork, beef, or not add meat at all.
   Peel and wash potatoes, carrots, and onions.

   

2. Put the chicken in a saucepan, cover it with water. Add salt. Send the pot over the fire and simmer the broth over low heat for 40 minutes. When the broth boils, be sure to scoop up the foam with a spoon.
3. Beat one egg into a bowl.
4. Whisk the egg a little.

   

5. Now dip your hands into the egg.
6. Then into flour.
7. Rub your palms together over the plate. Do this several times to use up all the flour.
8. Cut the onion into small cubes.
   Grate the carrots on a fine grater.
9. Heat a skillet with vegetable oil. Saute vegetables over medium heat for 3 minutes.
10. Cut the potatoes into small cubes.
11. Remove the meat from the broth. Place the chopped potatoes in the broth.
12. Add bay leaves.
13. Separate the meat from the bones. Chop the meat and place it back in the broth. Set the pot to low heat and simmer the potato and chicken soup for 20 minutes.
14. Now put the frying in the soup.
15. Sift the grout through a sieve.
16. Place the grout in the soup.
17. Beat the second egg with a whisk and pour into the soup. Cook the grout soup for another 10 minutes. Add ground pepper to the prepared soup.

    

18. Finely chop the green onion. Pour the soup into bowls, garnish with green onions and serve.