Okroshka is a traditional dish of Russian cuisine. It is difficult to find a person who would not love refreshing, satisfying and tasty okroshka. Each family prepares this dish in its own way. To learn how to prepare all the rules need to know all the secrets.
What is the okroshka?
Kefir, beet decoction, serum, ajane, beer, cucumber and cabbage brines, mineral water - this is the base of the okroshka, which is mixed with mayonnaise or sour cream. The main ingredients of the dish:
- cucumbers (fresh or salted);
- radish;
- potato;
- green onions;
- eggs.
Additional Ingredients:
- spinach;
- sorrel;
- other greens.
As a meat, it is possible to use boiled, roast or smoked beef, pork, chicken. Instead of meat, you can take ham, sausage, sausages and even fish and seafood. A large amount of greenery should be present in the window - green onions, parsley, dill, mint, basil, celery. In the people, this dish is called Olivier on Kvass, which is quite deserved!
If the okroshka is not a kvaas, then lemon, uroin apples and acid cabbage are added for piquancy. The sharpness of the dish is added mustard and horseradish. Earlier, a turnip, carrots and other vegetables from the garden were added to the okroshka.
Principles of preparation
First you need to wash all products, some boil or fry, cut. All products are combined with a lot of green onions, spicy herbs and pour liquid base. Kvass for okroshka should not be sweet, but today the hostess is filled with a shopping sweet drink.
Cut products are necessary with small cubes, except radish and cucumber, they rub on the grater to highlight the juice.
Hash - a cold soup, so the meat products must be low-fat. Experienced cooks use several types of meat for a richer taste. At the same time the greens and salt need to grind for the best flavor.
Preparation of kvass for hash
The best refueling, according to the connoisseur, is obtained on a kvass cooked from rusty crackers. To get a classic dish, you need to prepare this drink yourself. Cooking process:
- Cut the Borodinian bread with the squares and dry it in the oven or in a frying pan. Bread pieces should become dark color.
- Pour them with boiling water and retain for 12 hours.
- Strap the mixture, and add sugar (10 liters of liquid goes 10 tbsp. L. Sugar)
- Add washed dry raisins (40 g) and dry yeast (20 g), let's wander 12 hours.
The fermentation signal is the appearance of foam. After the appearance of the kitchen, you need to remove it in a cold place for another 12 hours. The precipitate can be used for a bevel start.
Step-by-step recipe Okroshka
To prepare meat classic okroshki, you need to prepare:
- boiled beef (200 g)
- ware potatoes (4 pcs.)
- eggs (3 pcs.), Cucumber (3 pcs.)
- radish (7 pcs.), green onions
- dill
- spoon mustard
- kvass (2 l)
- sour cream or mayonnaise (4 tbsp.)
- lemon, Salt, Pepper
Step-by-step recipe:
- Cut onions.
- Grasp potatoes.
- Connect onions and potatoes with salt, grind it all with a brush.
- Cut meat.
- Cut the cucumber, radishes, eggs, greens.
- All this is connected and stirring, add mustard and sour cream.
- Pour kvass, salt, add lemon.
- Before serving the window on the table, you need to cool it.
For a delicious okroshka, you need to choose high-quality products and self-cooked kvass. All ingredients must be fresh, thanks to this, the okroshka will melt in the mouth, and the rich taste will arise the taste receptors. The adjacent product can adversely affect the final result.
Recipe Ocrokes on Water
Kvass can be replaced with water, which is mixed with mayonnaise. For this recipe you will need:
- Cut boiled potatoes.
- Clear egg knife and disintegrate fork. Cut the cucumber, first cleaning the peel.
- Cut the boiled sausage.
- Choombing green onions, dill and parsley.
- Connect ingredients, mix with mayonnaise and 1.5-2 liters of water. At the end you need to escape, pour lemon juice, mustard, pepper. For decoration, you can use mugs of radish.
The taste of the okeeps is obtained in saturated and spicy, so no one guess the presence of simple water in the dish.
Okroshka on the brave beet with beef
- Booze beets (2 pcs.), Potatoes (3pcs), eggs (4pcs).
- Overall beets rubbed on the grater, the remaining 2 products cut into cubes.
- Choomb cucumber (2pcs), chopping radish (4 pcs.).
- Grind tomato, removing pre-peel.
- Cut veal (300 g).
- Cold beetraulic decoction to use for refueling.
- At the end add salt, pepper and greens with sour cream.
For less caloric meals, you can replace potatoes with zucchild, and sour cream is a degreased yogurt.
Feeding a dish in a strong heat, you can add ice cubes into it. This will allow to saturate and thicken thirst. Okroshka is a storehouse of vitamins and minerals, because cucumbers, radishes and greens can be consumed in any quantity. The okroshka is preparing on a universal recipe, with each family has its own secrets of cooking.