Ingredients:

  • Fresh fried chicken - 1 piece;
  • Salt;
  • Tomato paste - 50 g;
  • Potatoes - 4 tubers of medium size;
  • Pickles - 4 pieces;
  • Black pepper - 5 peas;
  • Water - 3 liters;
  • Bay leaf - 1 piece;
  • Sunflower oil - 50 ml;
  • Pearl barley - 100 g;
  • Smoked ham or bacon - 1 piece;
  • Carrot - 1 PC;
  • Fresh herbs and sour cream
  • Onion - 1 PC.

Preparation:

  1. First will wash the legs. Sent and fresh and smoked chicken in a pot, pour the chilled water and set on fire. Cook the meat over moderate heat for half an hour.
  2. Wash the pearl barley. Put in a bowl and cover with boiling water. Allow to infuse for about 30 minutes, later drain all the liquid.
  3. Clean and opolaskivaniem potatoes. Chop cubes of medium size.
  4. Cooked chicken, freed from the bones and again immersed in the broth. Throw the slices of potato with barley, cook twenty minutes.
  5. Peeled onions finely shinkuem. Carrots also clean, then grate on a coarse grater, salted cucumbers cut into squares.
  6. Simmer onion and carrots in vegetable oil (from time to time don't forget to stir). After 3 minutes add tomato, stir and continue cooking for another minute or two.
  7. Now attach the cucumbers. Simmer on low heat for 5 minutes.
  8. Ready zazharku put in the saucepan with the chicken. Sprinkle with salt to your taste, put the spices and cook under a lid for 10 minutes (the fire diminish to a minimum).
  9. Chop the washed greens. Throw in the soup and immediately remove it from the stove. When serving a hot dish will be flavored with fresh sour cream.