Bulgur is a food product known to mankind since ancient times. It has not lost its popularity to this day in Asia and North Africa.

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Ezo Chorbasi is rightfully considered the most popular soup with the addition of this cereal. It's traditional turkish recipe, which in translation sounds like "bride's soup". It is this dish that young Turkish women prepare on the eve of their wedding so that their family life is rich and happy.

But this is not the only soup you can make with bulgur. There are actually a lot of recipes - from light vegetable soup, the calorie content of which is only 190 kcal, to rich beef with smoked meats, which already has 440 kcal. Whatever recipe you choose for yourself, one thing is guaranteed - it will be very, very tasty.

We have made a special selection of the most popular recipes that have the most positive reviews from gourmets from all over the world. We will also answer the most popular questions from novice cooks, namely how to choose the right type of bulgur for soup, how much to cook it, cooking secrets vegetarian dishes with cereals and much more. And we also have a gift for young mothers - a recipe for useful and delicious soup with bulgur for children.

Delicious secrets of cooking first courses with bulgur

Before you start cooking, you need to know a few small nuances of cooking with this wonderful cereal so that your dish is perfect.

So, how to cook soup with bulgur:

1. The first step in cooking is the choice of cereals. This stage is very important, because it depends on taste qualities dishes, and appearance. For soups, whole, Midyat bulgur, as well as finely ground groats for kyufta, are more suitable.
2. An important nuance is how to cook bulgur. Since the product is undergoing preliminary heat treatment, cooking time is significantly reduced. Therefore, it is more expedient to add cereals after all other ingredients are cooked. Average cooking time is 20 minutes.
3. The most popular question of interest to culinary specialists who first encountered this product: how to cook cereals so that they do not boil? The secret is simple - 5 minutes before cooking, rinse the bulgur with ice water or put it in the refrigerator.
4. A very important nuance is to salt the product only after cooking, otherwise its aesthetic and taste qualities may suffer.

Algerian spicy soup with bulgur and beef

Required Ingredients:

• bulgur - 1 cup whole grains;
• meat (beef) - 200 g;
• onion - 100 g;
• hot pepper - half a pod;
• garlic;
• cumin;
• paprika flakes;
• turmeric;
• Carnation;
• butter;
• salt.

Cooking steps:

1. Rinse the beef, peel, pour 3 liters cold water and put on fire.
2. Peel the onion and garlic, chop, sauté in butter until translucent.
3. Add pepper and other spices to the pan and heat them in oil for about a minute, so that their aroma opens up.
4. When the meat boils, remove the foam and add a mixture of vegetables and spices. Cook until beef is done.
5. Cool the bulgur, add to the meat and cook until the cereal is soft (about 20 minutes).
6. Ready soup is recommended to hold under a closed lid for 10 minutes before serving.

Serve with unleavened cakes or brown bread crumbs.

The original recipe for soup with turkey and smoked meat broth

In this dish, delicate dietary turkey meat and fragrant smoked meats are perfectly combined.

To prepare the dish, take:

• bulgur for kyufta - 150 g;
• spicy smoked sausages - 100 g;
• raw smoked sausage - 100 g;
• onion- 100 g;
• carrots - 100 g;
• potatoes - 150 g;
• sage;
• paprika (spicy flakes);
• butter.

For the broth:

• turkey (bones) - 200 g;
• water - 3 l;
• black pepper and sweet peas;
• salt.

Step by step preparation:

1. Preparation of the broth: wash the bones, pour them cold water, add salt and spices. Cook for at least an hour over low heat.
2. Peel vegetables and chop into small cubes.
3. Put a piece of butter on a hot frying pan (so that it does not burn, you can add a little sunflower oil).
4. Lightly fry the washed bulgur, add onions, carrots. Saute for 5 minutes.
5. Put the bulgur and all the vegetables in a heavy-bottomed saucepan, pour over and cook for 20 minutes over medium heat.
6. Cut the smoked meats into strips and put in the soup 5 minutes before the end of cooking.
7. Salt the dish and add spices.

Serve with greens and dried wheat bread.

Ezo Chorbasi

The recipe for Turkish soup with bulgur and lentils is known to all oriental brides, because this is the first dish prepared by a young hostess. It perfectly combines the mild nutty flavor of bulgur with the spicy lentil flavor.

Red lentils are traditionally used for this dish, because their cooking time coincides with the cooking time of steamed wheat groats. But the use of other types of lentils is also not forbidden, only you need to adjust the method and time of its preparation according to the requirements of each variety.

List of ingredients for ezo chorbasi:

• beef - 200 g (you can replace 3 liters of ready-made meat broth);
• groats Midyatskaya - 100 g;
• Persian lentils - 100 g;
• onion - 150 g;
• tomatoes - 150 g;
• paprika flakes - 1 tbsp. l.;
• fresh mint;
• vegetable oil - 4 tbsp. l.;
• salt.

Meal preparation:

1. Put boil finely chopped meat on the broth.
2. Sauté the vegetables vegetable oil and add to the broth.
3. Rinse both cereals (but do not soak) and also put in a saucepan. Cook for 20 minutes.
4. At the end of cooking, add salt and spices.
5. Let the soup brew for 10 minutes.
6. Serve with mint leaves.

Chicken soup with bulgur

It's satisfying and tasty dish with overseas cereals and chicken even children will like it.

List of ingredients:

• bulgur - 180 g;
• chicken (any part) - 200 g;
• potatoes - 150 g;
• shallots - 100 g;
• ground black pepper;
• butter;
• salt.

Cooking:

1. Wash the chicken, peel, cut into portions, pour cold water and put on medium heat.
2. Peel potatoes, chop and add to chicken.
3. Heat the pan, add butter and chopped onion. Saute until transparent and add to soup.
4. When the potatoes are soft, add bulgur to the soup and cook for another 20 minutes.
5. At the end of cooking, salt and add spices.

Mediterranean fish soup with bulgur

The soup recipe came to us from the sunny Balkans. It perfectly combines gentle fish broth, spicy bulgur and juicy tomatoes.

Required Ingredients:

• fish - 300 g (one small carcass);
• bulgur - 150 g;
• tomatoes - 100 g;
• onion - 100 g;
• parsley - leaves and root;
• carrots - 100 g;
• vegetable oil;
• white and allspice pepper;
• salt.

How to cook:

1. Clean the fish, fillet.
2. Put the fish head and bones in a saucepan, add half the onion and parsley root, pour cold water and put on a small fire. Boil 30 min.
3. Add bulgur to the strained ready-made broth and cook over low heat for 20 minutes.
4. Sauté the vegetables in a frying pan and add to the broth as well.
5. At the end of cooking, salt the soup and add spices.
6. Serve with finely chopped parsley.

Soup with bulgur and meatballs: a great idea for a family dinner

The soup recipe is quite simple and accessible to beginner cooks.

For its preparation you need:

• chicken fillet - 200 g;
• onion - 150 g;
• potatoes - 200 g;
• carrot - 100 g;
• parsnip - 100 g;
• butter;
• bulgur - 150 g;
• salt pepper.

Cooking steps:

1. Chop the meat very finely or grind in a meat grinder, combine with finely chopped half of the onion, salt a little. Roll into small balls - meatballs.
2. Peel potatoes, cut, cover with water and boil until tender.
3. The remaining vegetables are peeled, chopped and lightly fried.
4. Add bulgur and browned vegetables to the finished potatoes.
5. Salt and pepper at the end of cooking.

Vegetarian vegetable soup with bulgur

This tomato soup will appeal to absolutely everyone and does not contain animal products.

Ingredients:

• bulgur - 1 cup;
• celery - 100 g;
• tomatoes - 300 g;
• potatoes - 200 g;
• parsnip - 200 g;
• salt pepper.

Peel the vegetables, put them in a saucepan, cover with water and cook until tender. Rinse the bulgur and add to the vegetables. At the end of cooking, salt and pepper the dish.

You can cook the same soup with corn and cabbage. Also, changing the recipe a little - replacing tomatoes with champignons - you get an excellent mushroom soup.

The kitchen is the perfect place for imagination and experimentation. Cook with pleasure!

WITH chicken meat prepare a lot of tasty and healthy first courses. Today I offer a recipe for a wonderful soup with chicken and bulgur. Groats "bulgur" on the shelves of stores appeared relatively recently and, due to its excellent taste, is becoming more and more popular. So, we begin to prepare an appetizing and healthy soup for our loved ones.

Ingredients

To make Bulgur Soup you will need:

2 liters of water;

1 carrot;

1 onion;

0.5 kg of chicken (it is better to take homemade chicken);

100 g bulgur;
2-3 potatoes;
ground black pepper, salt - to taste;
greenery.

Cooking steps

Pour well-washed chicken meat with water, put on fire. After boiling water, foam forms on the surface, which must be removed. Salt the water, reduce the fire and leave the broth to cook until the meat is ready (home-made chicken is cooked longer, purchased chicken is faster). When the chicken is cooked, take it out, separate it from the bones and send the meat back to the broth.

Peel potatoes, wash, cut into medium cubes, send to a saucepan with chicken broth and meat.

Peeled carrots cut into cubes.

Cut the onion into cubes as well and together with the carrots send it to the soup with the potatoes.

When the vegetables are almost ready, add bulgur to the soup and cook for 5-7 minutes.

At the very end, add chopped greens, salt and pepper to taste, bring the soup to a boil and remove from heat.

There are many recipes for preparing various soups. How to cook soup with bulgur, you will learn from this article.

Soup with bulgur and lentils

Ingredients:

• - 1.5 l;
• red lentils - 100 g;
• bulgur groats - 100 g;
• tomato paste - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
• small chili pepper - 1 pc.;
• onion - 120 g;
• natural butter - 30 g;
• dried mint - 1 teaspoon;
• salt;
• paprika.

Cooking

In the saucepan where we will cook the soup, melt the butter. Peel the onion, wash and chop finely. We send the pan and sauté for about 5 minutes. Add tomato, chopped chili and ground paprika. Stir and fry for about 3 minutes. Then add the heated broth, and after it boils, add bulgur and lentils. Cook on low heat for about 20 minutes. Then put the mint and add some salt. Cover with a lid and leave for 10 minutes.

Bulgur soup can also be cooked in a slow cooker. To do this, first fry the above listed ingredients in the “Baking” mode, and then pour in the liquid and cook in the “Stew” mode for 1 hour. This recipe can also be made with bulgur. To do this, simply replace the broth with water.

Chicken soup with bulgur

Ingredients:

• chicken legs - 2 pcs.;
• bulgur - 100 g;
• potatoes - 200 g;
• onion - 110 g;
• salt;
• carrots - 140 g;
• greenery;
• bay leaf;
• garlic - 3 cloves;
• water.

Cooking

Pour the washed chicken legs with water and bring to a boil. After that, cook for 7 minutes, and then drain the first broth. Pour in 2 liters of water again and cook until tender. Then we take the meat out of the broth, separate it from the bones and chop. Boil bulgur according to instructions. Then chop the onion and carrots. Saute vegetables in butter for about 5 minutes. Then add meat, bulgur and fill it all with chicken broth. Lay the potatoes cut into cubes, add salt to taste. Cook the soup until the potatoes are ready, and at the end put the greens, chopped garlic and bay leaf.

Fish soup with bulgur

Ingredients:

Cooking

First of all, we prepare the broth - fill the fish with water, put the carrots, a whole onion. Bring it all to a boil and cook for 40 minutes over low heat. Then we filter the finished broth. Grind the leek in half rings, put it in a boiling broth, add the chopped Bell pepper add bulgur and mix well. Now add the diced fish fillet. We cook for about 10 minutes. We crush the finished soup with finely chopped parsley.

Soup with bulgur is the first dish that came to us from the countries of the Middle East, the Balkans and the Mediterranean. Bulgur has been produced in these areas for over 4,000 years. Moreover, the production technology in some countries still remains unchanged. Bulgur is obtained from durum varieties wheat, which is first subjected to heat treatment and then dried in the sun. Next, the bran is removed from the wheat, and the grains are ground to the required size.

What is bulgur?

Many people confuse bulgur with couscous or uncooked crushed wheat. In fact, bulgur is an individual type of cereal, which has many advantages and useful properties. It retains almost all chemical composition wheat grain, which includes: trace elements, beta-carotene, saccharides, fatty acids, fiber and vitamins of groups B, PP, E and K.

Bulgur is well absorbed by the body, restores metabolism, favorably affects the condition of the skin and hair, and strengthens the nervous system. In Eastern countries, it is they who often replace rice and pearl barley. When cooked, its volume triples, but, nevertheless, it does not boil to a mushy state, which makes it an indispensable ingredient for side dishes and soups.

Ingredients for Turkish Bulgur Lentil Soup:

• Broth based on vegetables or meat - 3 liters;
• Bulgur groats - 150 grams;
• Lentils (preferably red) - 150 grams;
• Onion turnip - 1 pc.;
• Ground paprika - 50 grams;
• Dried mint - 10 grams;
• Tomato - 2 pcs.;
• Vegetable oil - 60 ml;
• Salt and peppercorns - to taste.

This legendary Turkish soup has been made for a little over 100 years. And at home, it is called "Ezo Chorbasi", which means "bride's soup". Every young Turkish woman who is getting married should prepare this first dish on the eve of the wedding so that her future family life will be long and happy.

This is a kind of tribute to the tradition that arose in memory of a certain girl, Ezo, who lived in Turkey in the early 1900s. It was she who came up with the recipe for Turkish soup with bulgur. Her family life did not work out. Living with her second husband in Syria, she was very unhappy and yearned for her homeland and family. Turkish soup with bulgur - thick, fragrant and spicy, reminded her of her beloved mother and father's house.

Cooking steps

Traditionally, bulgur and lentil soup is made with vegetable broth, but meat broth can also be used, for which chicken is best.

1. So, pour the finished broth into a three-liter pan.
2. Sort and wash the lentils.
3. Put lentils and bulgur (does not need washing) into the broth, sprinkle with paprika, add a few peppercorns.
4. Cover with a lid and cook over medium heat.
5. At this time, peel and finely chop the onion.
6. Fry for a few minutes in vegetable oil in a hot frying pan.
7. Scald the tomato with boiling water, remove the skin and chop.
8. Add to the golden onion and simmer for a couple of minutes.
9. Send tomato-onion fried in Turkish soup, salt and season with dried mint.
10. Simmer over low heat until the lentils and bulgur are cooked through.
11. Serve at the table, garnished with greens.

What do manufacturers offer?

Enjoying the bride's Turkish soup can be even faster and easier. Trading house "Yarmarka", specializing in the production of products healthy eating, in his line of ready-made mixes for reproducing dishes of the cuisines of the world, he also included this recipe for soup with bulgur grits. Through a transparent bag weighing 250 grams, you can see the quality of the ingredients put there. All of them are selected, clean, without debris and extra inclusions.

A bright cardboard label informs in detail about the composition of the product and the method of its preparation. Turkish soup from the Yarmarka company, however, as well as its other products, does not contain preservatives, GMOs and monosodium glutamate, which undoubtedly affects the taste and quality of this dish. Turkish soup "Yarmarka" with bulgur won the most positive feedback from consumers. Hearty, fragrant, a little unusual for taste preferences Russians - it will become an indispensable highlight in the everyday monotonous menu.

Soup with the addition of bulgur is not suitable for people on a diet. Its calorie content is high. One bulgur contains 340 kC. But, despite this, dishes with bulgur are considered healthy food, as they contain a lot of useful substances and are easily absorbed by the body.

Flatbread a la focaccia with basil will serve as an excellent addition to soup or a main course as bread. Moreover, it is quite independent. delicious pastries similar to pizza.

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