Dovga - A Recipe With A Photo Step By Step. How To Cook Azerbaijani Dovga Soup?

2023 Author: Catherine Crossman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-05-24 11:19

Ingredients

Kefir - 700 ml

Water - 200 ml

Cilantro greens - 1 bunch

Dill greens - 1 bunch

Round rice - 1/3 cup

Garlic - 1 clove

Chicken egg - 1 pc.

Salt to taste

56 kcal
35 minutes
35 minutes

Photo of the finished dish

Step by step recipe with photo

I have tried the Azerbaijani dovga, and more than once. A colleague from Baku often prepared this cold fermented milk soup full of fragrant greens. I shared my grandmother's recipes with my favorite friends, including me.

In Russia, kefir is used as the basis for soup. Ideally, if you find it in a store, it's better to take a katyk. I will not say that I am ready to eat dovgu every day, but I agree to diversify the dietary menu with this aromatic dish once a week. Nourishing dovga, where, in addition to the fermented milk product, there is also rice, is able to usefully satisfy my hunger after a hard day's work. Today I have had just such a day. Arriving home after work, I whipped up our "Snow White", rich in cilantro and dill.

For the preparation of dovga on kefir, the product is used fresh - 2.5% fat. Rice should be boiling fast. The rest of the ingredients are taken from the list.

Warm kefir is poured into the pan. Slightly diluted with water and mixed. In some recipes for dovgi, it is recommended to bring the kefir product to a boil immediately. I don't have this in my recipe, and this is important.

Let's break a chicken egg and beat it well in a glass. Then add to kefir with water and mix thoroughly.

Cilantro greens, dill and garlic are chopped with a knife.

Join the kefir.

Before cooking dovga itself, rice should be soaked well in water. I didn’t have time for this, and I slightly boiled it in a separate saucepan until half cooked, and then added it to kefir with herbs.

The saucepan is placed on the stove. Dovga is brewed with continuous stirring for 20 minutes. What does continuous mean? This means that we take a chair and sit next to the stove. If you distract yourself even for a minute, kefir and egg will curl up and dovga will turn into a kind of Azerbaijani dish.

During cooking and while cooling, the saucepan with soup is not covered with a lid so that the contents do not curl. Homemade dovga is ready!

Dovga is salted on kefir to taste before meals. I like the cooled "cold" soup. It is up to you in what form to serve this new dish of Azerbaijani cuisine. Have a nice dinner!