Pork Shurpa - recipe from the East

21.06.2024 Country kitchen

Shurpa is a very thick, rich soup, popular in oriental cuisine. There are dozens of recipes: they prepare shurpa with meat (the classic version with lamb), chicken, turkey, add various spices, sour fruits, spicy greens.

All recipes are united by a large cut of products, high nutritional value and calorie content of the finished dish, an abundance of herbs and a large number of spices. Large cuts not only meat, but also vegetables. For example, small potatoes can be left whole, medium cut in half, and large cut into 4-6 parts.

Pork shurpa, cooked at home in a slow cooker, is not much different in composition from the usual recipe, except that there are fewer spices. The preparation itself is much simpler: fried meat with vegetables, added water, potatoes, salted and left in the "stew" mode for an hour. In the recipe with a photo, the shurpa is prepared in the Polaris crock-pot.

Ingredients:

pork (pulp with bone) - 450-500 gr;
potatoes - 3-4 large tubers;
carrots - 1 pc;
onion - 1 head;
tomatoes - 4 pcs;
garlic - 4-5 teeth;
hot peppers - 1-2 pcs. (optional);
sweet pepper - 1 pc;
salt to taste;
coriander, zira - to taste;
vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. l;
water - 2 liters.

How to cook pork shurpa in a slow cooker

Turn on the slow cooker in frying mode for 20 minutes. Pour in a spoonful of vegetable oil. While heated, cut the pork into large pieces. We shift into hot oil.

Fry the pork until a brownish-reddish crust is turned over as it is toasted.

We cut onion into half rings, hot pepper rings and chop the garlic finely. Add to the fried pork.

After two to three minutes, when the onion absorbs fat and becomes translucent, add carrots, cut into large slices.

Fry the carrots for a couple of minutes, add spices and chopped bell peppers. Fry vegetables for another two minutes.

Cut ripe juicy tomatoes into large slices or quarters. We send in a saucepan to the rest of the products. Let’s lightly fry and leave to simmer, stirring occasionally.

After the sound signal, pour two liters of boiling water, salt to taste. Add coarsely chopped potatoes. We switch the multicooker to the "quenching" mode, set the time to 60 minutes. Close and leave to languish until the sound signal.