Fresh Tomato Puree Soup

Ingredients

• funt beef
• funt veal shank
• funt base roots
• bunch greens
• tomatoes
• stakan pearl barley or rice
• lozhka butter
• stakan smetana
• dill

Instructions

1. Boil a white bouillon of beef, veal shank, roots, and greens; strain.
2. Seed, chop, and stew the tomatoes in butter; boil with bouillon and rub through a sieve.
3. Add separately boiled pearl barley or rice, smetana, and all the bouillon; boil once.
4. Serve with dill and pirozhki, croutons, or stuffed tomatoes.