Krchik - soup from Northern Armenia

Here is the promised post about Krchik Քրճիկ: a pickle soup popular in Northern Armenia.
The ingredients are a few: cabbage, pickle cabbage/carrot mix, tomato paste, onions, potatoes and hachar, which I do not really know how to translate in English (հաճար).

So, wash the vegetables and cut them, fry the onion, then add the potatoes, tomato paste and pickle mix. And then, finally, add hachar. I will take quite a time for the soup to be ready, cause hachar needs pretty much time to boil.
One important reminder: wash the hachar in advance.

To be frank, my husband was not very happy about this soup, but I love anything, which has pickles inside.
This is how Wikipedia defines the soup
Krchik – soup made from sauerkraut, hulled wheat, potatoes, and tomato purée.^[19]
When making the soup, I understood there is something common with Russian Shchi (simply because of too much cabbage in both) and when googling it here is what I saw: http://gotovlyu.com/en/recept/krchik.html
So, bon appetit!!!