Gallina Blanca

The introduction

I don’t know if you have heard about this thing called Gallina Blanca, but many people in Georgia know about it and there have been some commercials about Gallina Blanca, too. And if you don’t know, I will tell you, that these are small 1 centimetre square cubes approximately, which have some different flavours and you add them into the boiling water and they give the water their taste and it’s no longer just water then, of course. Then you can add some other things to the stock or just leave it like that and have it as a soup or whatever you want.

So, the other day, I had those Galina Blanca cubes with chicken flavor and olive oil and I decided to have them prepared with some other things, too. You know, when you want to have something like soup and you want to have it at a cheap price, you should really use Gallina Blanca for your soup!

Ingredients:

• Gallina Blanca cubes, 2 pieces
• Potato, 1 medium
• Macaroni, 20 pieces
• Tomato paste, 2 tablespoons
• Ground beef, 100 grams
• Salt to taste
• Onion, half
• Parsley, 5 grams
• Coriander, 5 grams
• Ground red pepper
• Ground coriander
• Ground thyme

Preparation process

1. The preparation process started with me seasoning the ground beef. It’s really necessary to have a pretty well-seasoned ground beef so that it will give the dish its special taste. However, you can skip the ground beef part, if you don’t have it or don’t want to have it in your dish. Well, you season it with salt and some ground coriander and thyme and ground red pepper. And you should also add this half onion and parsley and coriander, which should be finely chopped and I do that in my chopper-blender and I also add the ground beef into it and mix them well together.
2. After that, it’s time to boil the water. You will need 2 litres of water to be boiled and until it boils in the saucepan, I usually boil it into my electric kettle and have it poured into the saucepan after that. So that the water will boil into the saucepan quickly and it won’t need too much time to wait for the water to be boiled, of course.
3. After the water boils, you can add those two cubes of Gallina Blanca into the water, which then will dissolve and spread their taste.
4. Then you should peel and cut the potato into small cubes or small pieces.
5. Then you can add the potato and macaroni pieces to the boiling water into the saucepan.
6. After that, you can have the tomato paste added to the saucepan and stirred a little.
7. Meanwhile, you should have the ground beef cooked a little. I do that with my convection oven. I put the beef into a fireproof plate and have it spread there and have it in the convection oven for 15 minutes or so on 200 degrees Celsius, so that it would get very well-cooked. Or you can put the ground beef into the frying pan with some oil or without it and have it cooked like that for a couple of minutes.
8. Then you can add the cooked ground beef to the saucepan and have some salt added and some ground thyme and coriander and red pepper.
9. I had it on a low heat for about an hour and checked, whether the potatoes and macaroni were cooked alright.
10. After an hour or so the dish was ready and I tasted it and it tasted pretty good, so that it was time to turn the gas off and wait for a little until the dish cooled down, so that it would be eatable.

Well, that was my soup from Gallina Blanca and I hope, that you will prepare this one and enjoy its taste, because it tasted really delicious, when I tasted it and I’m going to prepare this kind of thing pretty often, if you want to know the truth.

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