Okroshka is the perfect combination of taste and benefits. Everyone loves this national Russian summer soup. The classic recipe for okroshka is well known. However, the ingredients for kvass okroshka are perfect for kefir okroshka and more. That's why okroshka is that you can crumble anything into it: add meat or fish ingredients, use whey, kefir or mineral water instead of kvass. With the whole summer ahead, you can introduce the most unexpected innovations to a familiar dish by preparing okroshka according to different recipes. They are simple, only a few ingredients and filling are changed.
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What products are needed for okroshka
Let's be clear: okroshka requires invigorating, fragrant, sour, but in no case sweet kvass. Store-bought kvass can be brought to the desired state by adding a couple of crusts of black or Borodino bread to it and letting it brew in a warm place for three hours. Strain, cool and get almost the kvass you need.
Okroshka can be prepared with refreshing kvass, there is okroshka with delicate whey, for variety you can cook okroshka with spicy ayran or soft kefir, and fish okroshka is sometimes even poured with beer. You can also simply fill the okroshka with mineral water.
For satiety, put meat or sausage in okroshka. It is preferable to use lean meat: boiled beef is perfect for making okroshka, you can add chicken or turkey, some people use boiled tongue. If there is no meat, the simplest solution is to cook okroshka with boiled sausage.
As a rule, the classic okroshka recipe includes boiled potatoes, fresh cucumber, and radishes. Vegetables need to be cut into equal cubes or strips.
You can put boiled eggs in okroshka, cutting them into cubes, or cut only the white and prepare a dressing from the yolk. To do this, grind the yolks with mustard, add sour cream, sugar, salt to taste and mix with a small amount of kvass.
Add green onions, dill, and fresh sorrel to the okroshka. By the way, you can grind green onions with salt. And of course, season the okroshka with sour cream or other seasonings to taste: mustard, horseradish, etc.
Okroshka classic
Ingredients: kvass 1 liter, boiled meat or ham 200 g, potatoes 3 - 4 pcs., cucumber 2 pcs., radishes 5 - 7 pcs., eggs 2 - 3 pcs., green onions and dill 1 bunch each, salt to taste.
Cooking method. Boil potatoes in their jackets. Boil the eggs hard. Cool hot foods. Wash and dry vegetables and herbs. Cut the peeled potatoes and meat (ham) into small cubes. Place in a deep bowl. Also finely chop the radish and cucumber. Separate the whites from the yolks and chop them too. It is recommended to mash the yolks with a fork and also put them in a bowl. Green onions and dill should be finely chopped and mashed a little in a cup with salt. Then add to the total mass and mix thoroughly. Serve okroshka doused with kvass and seasoned with sour cream. You can add mustard or grated horseradish to taste.
Meat okroshka
Ingredients: boiled beef 200 g, cucumbers 3 pcs., boiled eggs 2 pcs., sour cream 4 tbsp. spoons, kvass 2 l, dill 60 g, a bunch of green onions, sugar 20 g, mustard 8 g, salt to taste.
Cooking method. Cut the beef and cucumbers into strips. Chop part of the green onion and grind it with salt until juice appears, add mustard. Separate the yolk from the white, mash the yolk, and chop the white into strips. Combine kvass with salt and sugar and mix. Combine the prepared ingredients, add some sour cream, mix. Dilute with kvass. Serve okroshka with finely chopped herbs and sour cream.
Okroshka with kefir
Ingredients: kefir 1 liter; kvass or mineral water with gas 0.5 liters, boiled potatoes 2 pcs., radishes 5 pcs., boiled sausage (boiled meat) 200 g, boiled chicken egg 2 pcs., fresh cucumber 1 - 2 pcs., radishes and green onions 0 ,5 bunches, 1 teaspoon mustard, sour cream, salt, spices to taste.
Cooking method. The recipe for making okroshka with kefir is not very different from the classic okroshka with kvass. The main thing is to remember that delicious okroshka with kefir, like delicious okroshka with kvass, is obtained only when it is well infused and cooled. Classic okroshka with kefir is prepared in the same way as okroshka with kvass with mustard; the ingredients are cut into small pieces and mixed with dressing.
Vegetable okroshka
Ingredients: bread kvass 2 liters, boiled carrots 1 pc., boiled potatoes 3 pcs., radishes 5 - 6 pcs., cucumbers 2 pcs., boiled eggs 2 pcs., chopped green onions, sour cream, mustard, salt and sugar to taste.
Cooking method. Cut the vegetables into strips, combine with a finely chopped egg and onion, mashed with salt. Stir. When serving, put a vegetable side dish on a plate, add salt, add a little mustard and pour kvass. Serve the sour cream separately.
Okroshka with whey
Ingredients: whey 1 liter, boiled potatoes 2 pcs., boiled meat or sausage 200 - 300 g; fresh cucumber 1 - 2 pcs., fresh radishes 4 pcs., boiled chicken eggs 2 pcs., green onions and dill 1 bunch each, mustard 1 teaspoon, sour cream, salt.
Cooking method. Okroshka made with whey is very tasty and healthy, because whey contains a lot of microelements beneficial to the body. Wash and dry fresh vegetables, boiled potatoes and boiled eggs and cut into fine cubes. To know how to cook okroshka with whey or kefir deliciously, you need to remember about the dressing. This is sour cream, mustard and salt. First mix sour cream with mustard, and then add salt little by little, only this way the okroshka made with whey and kefir will be moderately spicy, salty and tasty. Now you can mix everything, pour in the serum and let it sit.
Okroshka with mineral water
Ingredients: Mineral water okroshka is prepared only with sparkling water, boiled potatoes 2 pcs., boiled eggs 3 - 4 pcs., boiled meat or sausage 300 g, fresh cucumber 1 - 2 pcs., radishes 3 - 4 pcs., green onions, dill , sour cream, salt.
Cooking method. Cut vegetables, eggs and meat ingredients into cubes or strips. Chop the greens. For dressing, mix half a glass of sour cream with a teaspoon of mustard. If the mineral water okroshka is not sour enough, add a pinch of citric acid or a drop of table vinegar. Sprinkle with herbs before serving.
Okroshka with crab sticks
Ingredients: bread kvass 1 l, crab sticks 240 g, radishes 5 pcs., cucumbers 2 pcs., egg 2 pcs., mustard 1 tbsp. spoon, dill 1 bunch, sour cream 3 tbsp. spoons, salt and ground black pepper to taste.
Cooking method:
- Step 1. Wash the cucumbers, peel them if necessary (if they are too thick and rough) and cut into small cubes.
- Step 2. Hard-boil the eggs, cool, separate the whites from the yolks. Cut the whites into cubes. Grind the yolks with mustard, salt, pepper, chopped dill and sour cream in a separate bowl until smooth.
- Step 3. Cut the crab sticks into small pieces.
- Step 4. Wash the radishes, dry them with a paper towel, cut off the ends and cut into thin slices.
- Step 5. Place all prepared ingredients in a large, deep bowl and mix thoroughly. Pour chilled kvass over the okroshka, season with mustard and sour cream mixture and stir again.
Mushroom okroshka with mustard
Ingredients: bread kvass 1.5 l, salted mushrooms 400 g, potatoes 250 g, carrots 50 g, green onions 100 g, sour cream 200 g, chicken egg 2 pcs., cucumbers 200 g, mustard 20 g, dill, sugar and salt to taste .
Cooking method:
- Step 1. Wash the potatoes and carrots, boil them in their skins, cool, peel them and cut into small cubes.
- Step 2. Wash the cucumbers, peel them if necessary (if they are too thick and rough) and cut into small cubes.
- Step 3. Hard-boil the eggs, cool, and separate the whites from the yolks. Cut the whites into cubes. Grind the yolks with mustard, pepper, chopped dill and sour cream in a separate bowl until smooth. If it seems necessary, add salt and sugar, but remember that you have salted mushrooms in the okroshka!
- Step 4. Rinse the salted mushrooms under cold water, dry with a paper towel and finely chop.
- Step 5. Wash the radishes, dry them with a paper towel, cut off the ends and cut into thin slices.
- Step 6. Wash the green onions, dry and finely chop.
- Step 7. Place all prepared ingredients in a large, deep bowl and mix thoroughly. Pour chilled kvass over the okroshka, season with mustard and sour cream mixture and stir again.
No summer is complete without cold kvass soup. Okroshka, a simple and easy-to-prepare dish consisting of vegetables, has long occupied a place of honor on the dinner table in Rus'.
Its prototype is rightly considered to be radish or turnip with onions, seasoned with homemade savory. The composition of this dish has undergone significant changes over time. Later, a wide variety of ingredients for okroshka began to be used. And it began to be a cold stew with the addition of finely chopped vegetables, onions and meat, seasoned with spices and fresh herbs. It was also customary to consider it a snack, and not, as we are now accustomed to, a soup. In ancient times, kvass was served separately in clay jugs. But potatoes - seemingly the main and traditional component of the dish - began to be added only at the beginning of the 19th century. So, what ingredients are used for okroshka now and how to prepare it correctly?
Classic cooking method
Today, this traditional one consists of finely chopped vegetables with a neutral taste. The most commonly used are potatoes, carrots, fresh cucumbers, turnips and rutabaga. In addition, it includes parsley, green onions, dill, tarragon, and celery. An essential component of okroshka is hard-boiled eggs. Particular attention is paid to the dressing, consisting of special kvass or regular bread kvass with the addition of a ground mixture of onions, black pepper, egg yolks, and horseradish. It is also recommended to season the dish with fresh sour cream. In addition to vegetable, there is also okroshka, the ingredients of which include meat or even fish. In this case, as a rule, lean boiled meat of different varieties is used (preferably turkey or pork). For fish, it is recommended to take pike perch, sturgeon or cod.
How Let's describe the general principle. Cut vegetables into small cubes. Mix them with pre-boiled and chopped meat or fish (if using them). Next, add the spicy dressing and let it brew for half an hour. Then sprinkle with fresh herbs and fill with kvass. If desired, add sour cream and/or finely chopped egg white.
Popular recipe
So, now that you know how to prepare this popular dish, let’s decide which ingredients for okroshka go best with each other. Here is a simple and most common recipe. You will need:
- boiled chicken egg (2 pcs.);
- in uniform, 2 pcs.);
- boiled sausage (150 g);
- radishes (3-4 pcs.);
- fresh cucumbers (2 pcs.);
- green onions;
- dill;
- sour cream;
- grated horseradish;
- salt;
- pepper;
- mustard;
- kvass.
As you can see, the ingredients for okroshka are quite simple. Chop eggs, potatoes, sausage, radishes, cucumbers, mix and season with kvass, mustard (we use the simplest), horseradish. Sausage can be replaced with boiled meat. Season with salt and pepper to your taste, and then add kvass. Add finely chopped fresh herbs and sour cream. The dish is ready. We wish everyone bon appetit.
Every cuisine in the world has simple and complex recipes, the same applies to Russian traditional cuisine, for example, okroshka. The dish is known for the fact that it requires a minimum of products and primitive technologies. People have come up with a lot of sayings on this topic, like “kvass and potatoes are already okroshka.”
But not everything is so simple, true connoisseurs of this tasty and healthy dish will say; there are many recipes and secrets on how to make it incredibly tasty. This will be discussed below.
Recipe for okroshka with kefir
The largest number of recipes offered in cookbooks and on specialized forums is okroshka with kefir. The dish is indeed both simple and healthy, since it contains a lot of fresh vegetables and fermented milk product. Beginning housewives can blindly follow the recipe written below; cooks with at least minimal experience can experiment, especially with vegetables.
Ingredients:
- Cucumbers – 3 pcs.
- Onion feathers and greens - 1 bunch each.
- Potatoes – 3-4 pcs.
- Chicken eggs – 3-4 pcs.
- Sausage – 300 gr.
- Low-fat kefir – 1 l.
- Vinegar – 2 tbsp. l.
- Water (if necessary, make the okroshka more liquid).
- Salt.
Algorithm of actions:
- Boil the potatoes without peeling, cool, then peel and cut into cubes. One potato can be mashed.
- Boil eggs, cut into cubes.
- Wash the cucumbers and cut into strips. Chop the greens, cut the onion feathers.
- Also chop the sausage or boiled chicken (into cubes).
- Mix everything, add salt and vinegar (even better - lemon juice). Stir again.
- Pour in kefir and add water if necessary.
Garnish with a green sprig of dill and a circle of yolk, serve.
Okroshka on water with sour cream and mayonnaise
Okroshka with kefir is tasty and quick to prepare, but if you don’t have kefir, it’s easy to find a replacement. You can also prepare okroshka using water (ordinary water, brought to a boil and cooled), it is only important to pour in a little sour cream and mayonnaise, it will add a pleasant piquant sourness to the dish.
Ingredients:
- Potatoes – 4 pcs.
- Eggs – 3 pcs.
- Cucumbers – 4-5 pcs. (small size).
- Radishes – 8-10 pcs.
- Onions in feathers and dill - 1 bunch each.
- Sausage – 250-300 gr.
- Water – 1.5 l.
- Fat sour cream – 100-150 gr.
- Mayonnaise – 3-4 tbsp. l.
Algorithm of actions:
- Boil water in advance and cool.
- Boil potatoes and eggs. Cut into beautiful cubes.
- Wash other vegetables, cut into thin strips, sausage into cubes.
- Chop the greens, pre-washed and dried, with a sharp knife.
- Mix the products in a large deep container. Add sour cream and mayonnaise here. Stir the okroshka mixture again.
- Add water gradually, stirring until the okroshka reaches the required thickness.
This recipe is good because it allows you to get okroshka of the thickness that your household likes!
How to cook okroshka using mineral water
The following okroshka recipe differs in that it is proposed to use mineral water as the liquid. In principle, it is very convenient; there is no need to boil or cool.
It is recommended to place a bottle of mineral water in the freezer an hour before cooking.
Pour in the ingredients and immediately bring the okroshka to the table, the mineral salts will add a pleasant piquant taste to the dish, the carbon dioxide released will look fantastic.
Ingredients:
- Potatoes – 3-4 pcs. (1 piece per person)
- Eggs – 3-4 pcs. (also 1 piece per consumer).
- Beef – 400 gr.
- Greens – 1 bunch.
- Cucumbers – 2-4 pcs.
- Mineral water – 1.5 l. (less may be required).
- Mayonnaise – 4 tbsp. l.
- Mustard – 2 tsp.
- Lemon – ½ pc.
Algorithm of actions:
- Boil potatoes and eggs, cool. Cut the potatoes into cubes. Chop the whites too and add to the potatoes.
- Cut the cucumbers into strips, cut the beef into cubes, and tear the greens.
- Combine delicious ingredients, excluding greens, in a large bowl.
- For the dressing, grind the yolks, add a little salt, mustard, squeeze the juice from ½ lemon.
- Add the dressing to the ingredients for okroshka. Now you can add mayonnaise and herbs.
Add iced mineral water, stir and pour into plates. Add more herbs to each plate on top for beauty and aroma.
Okroshka with whey
Russian housewives traditionally prepared okroshka with kvass or whey; today, “fashionable” kefir and mineral water are in high esteem. But below is one of the oldest recipes, where whey is used as a liquid base.
Ingredients:
- Sausage – 300 gr.
- Potatoes, boiled in skins – 4 pcs.
- Eggs – 2-3 pcs.
- Cucumbers – 2 pcs.
- Dill – 1 bunch.
- Kefir (for whey) – 1.5 l.
- Lemon juice - from ½ lemon.
- Sour cream – 4-5 tbsp. l.
- Salt pepper.
Algorithm of actions:
- Prepare whey in advance (homemade is tastier). Freeze kefir completely.
- Then place on a sieve lined with several layers of gauze. The flowing liquid is whey, it needs to be collected. The remaining cottage cheese can be used to prepare other healthy dishes.
- Cooking okroshka is traditional. Also boil potatoes and eggs in advance. Cut all ingredients into cubes.
- Add salt, ground pepper, sour cream. Squeeze lemon juice. Mix.
Before serving, pour in the whey, garnish with herbs and finely chopped yolk.
Recipe for okroshka with vinegar
The main task of the housewife is to make the okroshka sharp enough, for which kvass, mineral water or whey is used. But sometimes the sharpness may not be enough, then cooks at home use ordinary vinegar. A few spoons of this product radically (for the better, of course) changes the taste of okroshka.
Ingredients:
- Potatoes – 0.5 kg.
- Beef – 400 gr.
- Eggs – 2-4 pcs.
- Cucumbers – 0.5 kg.
- Mayonnaise – 5-6 tbsp. l.
- Water – from 1.0 to 1.5 l.
- Vinegar 9% – 3 tbsp. l.
- Greens (whatever is on hand) – 1 bunch.
- Salt.
Algorithm of actions:
- Some products (beef, potatoes and eggs) will have to be prepared in advance, since they are added to the dish cold.
- Rinse fresh vegetables and herbs before cooking, cover with cold water and leave for 15 minutes.
- Beef can be boiled as a whole piece, and after cooling, cut into cubes. Or chop and boil, then you will get an excellent broth on which you can cook porridge or borscht (the next day).
- Chop the ingredients into one large container and mix mayonnaise and water in the second.
- Pour vinegar over the chopped products, add mayonnaise-water dressing.
You can add salt and sprinkle with herbs at the table! Be sure to serve okroshka with black bread made from wholemeal flour. The video recipe suggests preparing okroshka with horseradish.
How to make okroshka - 5 options
Okroshka can be prepared from almost any product. Below are five recipes, differing in filling options, each one can help out the housewife.
Ingredients:
- Boiled potatoes.
- Boiled eggs.
- Radishes and cucumbers.
- Any fresh greens.
- Sausage (ham).
- Liquid base (1-1.5 l.).
Algorithm of actions:
- The first part of the steps is the same: boil the potatoes directly in their skins, hard-boil the eggs.
- Peel and chop potatoes and eggs.
- Wash and chop the vegetables.
- Wash the greens, blot off excess moisture and chop as well.
- Sausage (ham is even tastier) also cut into cubes.
- Mix the ingredients and pour one of the filling options:
- mineral water;
- plain water mixed with lemon juice, sour cream;
- kvass, prepared at home or factory-made;
- kefir, diluted with water or in “pure” form;
- serum.
This dish “adores” greens, so you don’t have to stop at one bunch, but take a bunch of each type.
Okroshka with sausage
Mothers love okroshka for the speed of preparation, especially if the preparatory work (boiling potatoes and eggs) was done in advance. And instead of meat, which takes a long time to cook, you can take regular boiled sausage.
Ingredients:
- Sausage – 300 gr.
- Potatoes – 4 pcs.
- Chicken eggs – 4 pcs.
- Fresh cucumbers – 4 pcs.
- Radishes – 8-10 pcs.
- Kvass - about 1.5 liters
- More greenery.
- Salt.
- If desired, ground hot pepper.
Algorithm of actions:
- Boil potatoes and eggs in advance. Cool, peel, cut into bars.
- Chop the washed cucumbers, radishes and sausage in the same way.
- Add salt. Gently mix the ingredients with a spoon in a large container.
- Pour in kefir.
- Sprinkle each plate separately with herbs.
Add salt and pepper to taste at the table.
Meat okroshka
Modern housewives do not speak very well of boiled sausage; they know that it is better to use real meat. By the way, it is also suitable for okroshka.
Ingredients:
- Kvass – 1 l.
- Potatoes – 3-5 pcs.
- Eggs – 3-5 pcs.
- Meat – 200-250 gr.
- Cucumbers – 3-4 pcs.
- Greens and onions.
- Sour cream and salt - to taste.
Algorithm of actions:
- Prepare potatoes, eggs, meat in advance and cool.
- Cut the ingredients into equal, beautiful cubes.
- Mix in a large container and add kvass.
- Pour into plates, garnish each with herbs.
There is a secret - you can use smoked meat, then the okroshka will have a pleasant smoked taste.
Winter okroshka
Thanks to hypermarkets with their large assortment of vegetables and fruits all year round, you can even prepare okroshka for the New Year’s table. Here is one of the recipes.
Ingredients:
- Ham – 200 gr.
- Potatoes – from 4 pcs.
- Chicken eggs – from 4 pcs.
- Onions and greens.
- Cucumbers – 3 pcs.
- Filling – 0.5 l. kefir and water.
- Citric acid – 3 g.
- Mustard – 3 tbsp. l.
- Salt and sour cream.
Algorithm of actions:
- Prepare vegetables - boil potatoes, rinse cucumbers. Cut them up.
- Prepare the eggs - boil, cool in ice water, cut into cubes, leave one yolk for preparing the dressing.
- Cut the ham into beautiful bars or, maintaining the unity of style, into cubes.
- Chop the onion and crush to release the juice, chop the greens.
- Grind the remaining yolk with mustard.
- Add kefir, salt, citric acid, and a little sugar to the water.
- First add the yolk with mustard to the chopped ingredients, and then the liquid base.
Pour okroshka into each plate, add 1 tbsp. l. sour cream and a little greenery on top, for beauty!
Diet okroshka (without meat and sausage)
Okroshka is one of the most favorite dishes among those who are on a diet; it is tasty and satiating, in addition, it is rich in vitamins and nutrients. In addition, you can cook okroshka without adding any meat.
Ingredients:
- Potatoes – 4 pcs.
- Cucumbers – 4 pcs.
- Radishes – 10 pcs.
- Eggs – 2 pcs.
- Onion, cilantro, dill.
- Low-fat kefir – 1 l.
Algorithm of actions:
- Prepare eggs and potatoes in advance (boil, cool).
- Chop vegetables, eggs and herbs into a saucepan.
- Pour in kefir.
There is no need to add salt, there is enough acid for a pleasant taste, as they say, eat and lose weight!
Okroshka with radish
Traditional okroshka recipes include the usual cucumbers and radishes, but you can also find variations of the dish prepared with radish. They are tasty and healthy, the only unpleasant thing is the specific smell of radish, which you can get rid of if you grate it and put it in the cold for 30 minutes.
Ingredients:
- Radish – 1 pc.
- Ham – 300 gr.
- Potatoes – 2-3 pcs.
- Cucumbers – 2 pcs.
- Eggs – 2-3 pcs.
- Onion, dill.
- Kefir – 0.5-1 l.
Algorithm of actions:
- Buy ham, pre-cook potatoes in their skins.
- Hard boil the eggs.
- Wash the greens and cucumbers.
- Grate the radish, put it in the refrigerator, wait the right time.
- Cut all other ingredients in the same style - into cubes or strips.
- Mix, add salt and add kefir.
When serving, sprinkle with herbs and add a little sour cream. It turns out to be a very healthy and tasty dish!
We offer a few secrets and tips that will help the novice housewife not to get confused and prepare a tasty and healthy dish.
Kefir with a high percentage of fat content is often quite thick, and you won’t be able to get a “soup” from it, which is what okroshka essentially is.
Advice - you should take low-fat kefir, and if you don’t have such a drink in the refrigerator, then mineral water will help out, which you need to dilute the fatty fermented milk drink.
Okroshka is the perfect combination of taste and benefits. Everyone loves this national Russian summer soup. The classic recipe for okroshka is well known. However, the ingredients for kvass okroshka are perfect for kefir okroshka and more. That's why okroshka is that you can crumble anything into it: add meat or fish ingredients, use whey, kefir or mineral water instead of kvass. With the whole summer ahead, you can introduce the most unexpected innovations to a familiar dish by preparing okroshka according to different recipes. They are simple, only a few ingredients and filling are changed.
Youtube.com, Natalia Kim
What products are needed for okroshka
Let's be clear: okroshka requires invigorating, fragrant, sour, but in no case sweet kvass. Store-bought kvass can be brought to the desired state by adding a couple of crusts of black or Borodino bread to it and letting it brew in a warm place for three hours. Strain, cool and get almost the kvass you need.
Okroshka can be prepared with refreshing kvass, there is okroshka with delicate whey, for variety you can cook okroshka with spicy ayran or soft kefir, and fish okroshka is sometimes even poured with beer. You can also simply fill the okroshka with mineral water.
For satiety, put meat or sausage in okroshka. It is preferable to use lean meat: boiled beef is perfect for making okroshka, you can add chicken or turkey, some people use boiled tongue. If there is no meat, the simplest solution is to cook okroshka with boiled sausage.
As a rule, the classic okroshka recipe includes boiled potatoes, fresh cucumber, and radishes. Vegetables need to be cut into equal cubes or strips.
You can put boiled eggs in okroshka, cutting them into cubes, or cut only the white and prepare a dressing from the yolk. To do this, grind the yolks with mustard, add sour cream, sugar, salt to taste and mix with a small amount of kvass.
Add green onions, dill, and fresh sorrel to the okroshka. By the way, you can grind green onions with salt. And of course, season the okroshka with sour cream or other seasonings to taste: mustard, horseradish, etc.
Okroshka classic
Ingredients: kvass 1 liter, boiled meat or ham 200 g, potatoes 3 - 4 pcs., cucumber 2 pcs., radishes 5 - 7 pcs., eggs 2 - 3 pcs., green onions and dill 1 bunch each, salt to taste.
Cooking method. Boil potatoes in their jackets. Boil the eggs hard. Cool hot foods. Wash and dry vegetables and herbs. Cut the peeled potatoes and meat (ham) into small cubes. Place in a deep bowl. Also finely chop the radish and cucumber. Separate the whites from the yolks and chop them too. It is recommended to mash the yolks with a fork and also put them in a bowl. Green onions and dill should be finely chopped and mashed a little in a cup with salt. Then add to the total mass and mix thoroughly. Serve okroshka doused with kvass and seasoned with sour cream. You can add mustard or grated horseradish to taste.
Meat okroshka
Ingredients: boiled beef 200 g, cucumbers 3 pcs., boiled eggs 2 pcs., sour cream 4 tbsp. spoons, kvass 2 l, dill 60 g, a bunch of green onions, sugar 20 g, mustard 8 g, salt to taste.
Cooking method. Cut the beef and cucumbers into strips. Chop part of the green onion and grind it with salt until juice appears, add mustard. Separate the yolk from the white, mash the yolk, and chop the white into strips. Combine kvass with salt and sugar and mix. Combine the prepared ingredients, add some sour cream, mix. Dilute with kvass. Serve okroshka with finely chopped herbs and sour cream.
Okroshka with kefir
Ingredients: kefir 1 liter; kvass or mineral water with gas 0.5 liters, boiled potatoes 2 pcs., radishes 5 pcs., boiled sausage (boiled meat) 200 g, boiled chicken egg 2 pcs., fresh cucumber 1 - 2 pcs., radishes and green onions 0 ,5 bunches, 1 teaspoon mustard, sour cream, salt, spices to taste.
Cooking method. The recipe for making okroshka with kefir is not very different from the classic okroshka with kvass. The main thing is to remember that delicious okroshka with kefir, like delicious okroshka with kvass, is obtained only when it is well infused and cooled. Classic okroshka with kefir is prepared in the same way as okroshka with kvass with mustard; the ingredients are cut into small pieces and mixed with dressing.
Vegetable okroshka
Ingredients: bread kvass 2 liters, boiled carrots 1 pc., boiled potatoes 3 pcs., radishes 5 - 6 pcs., cucumbers 2 pcs., boiled eggs 2 pcs., chopped green onions, sour cream, mustard, salt and sugar to taste.
Cooking method. Cut the vegetables into strips, combine with a finely chopped egg and onion, mashed with salt. Stir. When serving, put a vegetable side dish on a plate, add salt, add a little mustard and pour kvass. Serve the sour cream separately.
Okroshka with whey
Ingredients: whey 1 liter, boiled potatoes 2 pcs., boiled meat or sausage 200 - 300 g; fresh cucumber 1 - 2 pcs., fresh radishes 4 pcs., boiled chicken eggs 2 pcs., green onions and dill 1 bunch each, mustard 1 teaspoon, sour cream, salt.
Cooking method. Okroshka made with whey is very tasty and healthy, because whey contains a lot of microelements beneficial to the body. Wash and dry fresh vegetables, boiled potatoes and boiled eggs and cut into fine cubes. To know how to cook okroshka with whey or kefir deliciously, you need to remember about the dressing. This is sour cream, mustard and salt. First mix sour cream with mustard, and then add salt little by little, only this way the okroshka made with whey and kefir will be moderately spicy, salty and tasty. Now you can mix everything, pour in the serum and let it sit.
Okroshka with mineral water
Ingredients: Mineral water okroshka is prepared only with sparkling water, boiled potatoes 2 pcs., boiled eggs 3 - 4 pcs., boiled meat or sausage 300 g, fresh cucumber 1 - 2 pcs., radishes 3 - 4 pcs., green onions, dill , sour cream, salt.
Cooking method. Cut vegetables, eggs and meat ingredients into cubes or strips. Chop the greens. For dressing, mix half a glass of sour cream with a teaspoon of mustard. If the mineral water okroshka is not sour enough, add a pinch of citric acid or a drop of table vinegar. Sprinkle with herbs before serving.
Okroshka with crab sticks
Ingredients: bread kvass 1 l, crab sticks 240 g, radishes 5 pcs., cucumbers 2 pcs., egg 2 pcs., mustard 1 tbsp. spoon, dill 1 bunch, sour cream 3 tbsp. spoons, salt and ground black pepper to taste.
Cooking method:
- Step 1. Wash the cucumbers, peel them if necessary (if they are too thick and rough) and cut into small cubes.
- Step 2. Hard-boil the eggs, cool, separate the whites from the yolks. Cut the whites into cubes. Grind the yolks with mustard, salt, pepper, chopped dill and sour cream in a separate bowl until smooth.
- Step 3. Cut the crab sticks into small pieces.
- Step 4. Wash the radishes, dry them with a paper towel, cut off the ends and cut into thin slices.
- Step 5. Place all prepared ingredients in a large, deep bowl and mix thoroughly. Pour chilled kvass over the okroshka, season with mustard and sour cream mixture and stir again.
Mushroom okroshka with mustard
Ingredients: bread kvass 1.5 l, salted mushrooms 400 g, potatoes 250 g, carrots 50 g, green onions 100 g, sour cream 200 g, chicken egg 2 pcs., cucumbers 200 g, mustard 20 g, dill, sugar and salt to taste .
Cooking method:
- Step 1. Wash the potatoes and carrots, boil them in their skins, cool, peel them and cut into small cubes.
- Step 2. Wash the cucumbers, peel them if necessary (if they are too thick and rough) and cut into small cubes.
- Step 3. Hard-boil the eggs, cool, and separate the whites from the yolks. Cut the whites into cubes. Grind the yolks with mustard, pepper, chopped dill and sour cream in a separate bowl until smooth. If it seems necessary, add salt and sugar, but remember that you have salted mushrooms in the okroshka!
- Step 4. Rinse the salted mushrooms under cold water, dry with a paper towel and finely chop.
- Step 5. Wash the radishes, dry them with a paper towel, cut off the ends and cut into thin slices.
- Step 6. Wash the green onions, dry and finely chop.
- Step 7. Place all prepared ingredients in a large, deep bowl and mix thoroughly. Pour chilled kvass over the okroshka, season with mustard and sour cream mixture and stir again.
Okroshka is an ancient dish of Russian cuisine, the name of which comes from the verb “to crumble”. The recipe for this cold soup has been mentioned in literary sources since the 18th century. Since its inception, this dish has been constantly supplemented and improved. If initially okroshka was prepared as a mixture of meat or fish, vegetables and pickles (pickled cucumbers and mushrooms), seasoned with white kvass and sour cream, then gradually the recipe for the dish changed a lot. Today, as a rule, it includes boiled meat, potatoes, eggs, fresh vegetables and a large amount of herbs. Not only kvass is already used as a dressing, but also whey, kefir, other fermented milk drinks and mineral water.
Recipes for delicious okroshka are presented in our article. We suggest preparing each of them and choosing one worthy of your table.
Any recipe for delicious okroshka can always be changed and supplemented with other ingredients to your liking. This rule should be followed when preparing this original Russian dish. When preparing ingredients, you should adhere to the following recommendations:
- Potatoes for okroshka can be boiled in their skins or baked in the oven with their skins on. In this case, any cooking method will do.
- It is preferable to use meat instead of sausage. Good okroshka is made from tender domestic pork, beef and poultry.
- From fresh vegetables, you can use both cucumber and radish, which will make the taste of cold soup more piquant.
- If you need to add a little heat, season the okroshka with black pepper or mustard.
- You can add any greens in large quantities. To make the taste of the soup more rich, it is recommended to grind finely chopped dill, parsley and onion in a mortar with salt until juice forms, and only then add to the okroshka.
Delicious classic okroshka: recipe
Initially, kvass was used as a base for cold soup. We suggest preparing this recipe for the most delicious okroshka, which is considered a classic, below.
Step-by-step preparation of the dish is as follows:
- It is good to cool white or bread kvass. Leave it in the refrigerator until the rest of the ingredients for the dish are chopped.
- Boil any meat (200 g) with spices to taste. At the end of cooking, add salt. Then cool and cut into small cubes.
- Boil potatoes (3 pcs.) in their skins, wait until they cool down and cut into pieces in the same way as meat.
- Boil eggs (4 pcs.) in water with salt, cool, peel and chop into cubes.
- Finely chop the cucumbers and radishes.
- Chop the greens (onion, parsley, dill) in the same way.
- Mix all chopped ingredients in one bowl. Divide the resulting mass into plates, pour cold kvass and add sour cream to taste. Salt as desired.
Recipe for delicious okroshka with kefir
Finding delicious homemade kvass for classic okroshka is not so easy. Therefore, when preparing cold soup, many housewives try to replace it with fermented milk products, for example, whey, ayran or kefir. It is the last ingredient that is used in the following recipe.
The most delicious okroshka with kefir is prepared in the following sequence:
- Potatoes and eggs (3 pieces each) are boiled in salted water, cooled and cut into cubes.
- Greens (onion, dill) are chopped.
- Fresh cucumbers (2 pcs.) and radishes (10 pcs.) are cut in the same way as potatoes and eggs.
- Boiled meat (300 g) or ham is finely chopped.
- All ingredients are mixed in a saucepan and poured with kefir (1 l). Salt, mustard and pepper can be added to your taste.
Okroshka with kvass
This recipe will appeal to all spicy lovers. This okroshka has a sharp taste due to the use of kvass as a liquid ingredient, as well as a piquant spiciness due to mustard dressing. The list of other components remains virtually unchanged.
The recipe for delicious okroshka with kvass is as follows:
- Potatoes and eggs (4 pieces each) are boiled until tender.
- Beef (300 g) is boiled with spices for about 1.5 hours, cooled and cut into strips.
- Potatoes, egg whites and 2 fresh cucumbers are cut into cubes.
- Any greens to taste are chopped (large bunch).
- Prepare a spicy dressing from mustard (1 tablespoon), boiled egg yolks and salt to taste. A few tablespoons of sour cream are also added here.
- The chopped ingredients are mixed in a saucepan and poured with kvass (1 l).
- Okroshka is poured into plates, after which a spoonful of mustard-sour cream dressing is added to each.
Okroshka on kefir with mineral water
If there is no kvass in the refrigerator, then do not be upset. Highly carbonated mineral water will help replace this ingredient in okroshka. The sharp and piquant taste of the dish is achieved thanks to a special dressing based on egg yolks, mustard and lemon juice.
A delicious okroshka is prepared using kefir and mineral water according to the following recipe:
- Boil in the skins, cool, peel and chop 4 potato tubers into small pieces.
- Perform similar steps with chicken eggs, but only the whites should be chopped, and the yolks should be left for dressing.
- Boil the meat with spicy spices, onions and carrots.
- Chop the greens and a couple of cucumbers.
- Combine all ingredients together.
- Prepare a dressing based on hot mustard (1 tablespoon), lemon juice, salt and 4 yolks from boiled eggs. Add a few tablespoons of mineral water and mix well.
- Pour chilled mineral water (1.5 liters) over vegetables, herbs and meat. Add kefir to taste (about 500 ml).
- Pour the okroshka into bowls and add the dressing.
Recipe for okroshka with shrimp
Do you want to try something unusual and exotic? Prepare okroshka with shrimp, although it has almost nothing in common with the classic dish. Instead of cucumbers and radishes, tomatoes are used in cooking, which taste great with shrimp.
R The recipe for delicious okroshka involves the following step-by-step preparation:
- The shrimp are boiled until tender in boiling salted water. Then they need to be cleaned and, if necessary, cut.
- Tomatoes (3 pcs.) cut into cubes.
- Boiled eggs (5 pcs.) are crushed in the same way as tomatoes.
- Green onions and dill are also finely chopped (a bunch at a time).
- All ingredients are mixed in one bowl with mayonnaise. Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Next, pour water (1500 ml) into the resulting “salad” and squeeze out the juice from one lemon. Okroshka with shrimp is ready. It will taste even better if you use chilled and purified mineral water.
How to cook okroshka with sour cream?
A very tasty cold soup can be prepared from seemingly incompatible ingredients. The filling for the chopped main ingredients is prepared from water and sour cream, and the result is a very tasty okroshka.
All products for cold soup are practically no different from those presented in previous recipes. You will need several potato tubers, boiled eggs, meat, sausage, ham or sausages, cucumbers and radishes, as well as a large amount of various greens. The filling is prepared from two liters of cold boiled water and 500 ml of sour cream. The ingredients are mixed well, salt, pepper and mustard are added to taste. After this, the filling is poured into a mixture of eggs, vegetables and meat.
For many people, this is the best recipe for delicious okroshka. Water and sour cream make the dish tender, perfectly quenching both thirst and hunger in the summer heat.
Whey okroshka recipe
Many housewives, thinking about what to replace kvass in okroshka, are not even aware of the possibility of using this product. Meanwhile, whey is a very high-quality and healthy alternative to the famous bread drink.
According to the recipe, a very tasty okroshka is prepared as follows:
- Potatoes (4 pcs.), eggs (7 pcs.), meat (500 g) are boiled until tender.
- All ingredients are cooled, peeled if necessary and cut into cubes or otherwise.
- Fresh cucumbers (2 pcs.) and herbs are also chopped.
- After this, the filling is prepared, on which the taste of the dish depends. To do this, add 200 ml of sour cream, salt to taste, as well as mustard and lemon juice to the cooled whey. The prepared filling should have a pleasant sour-salty taste.
- The whey filling is added to the other ingredients, after which the okroshka is mixed and served.
Okroshka with mineral water
If there is no kvass or kefir in the refrigerator, but only a bottle of cold mineral water, you can easily prepare a delicious summer soup that will be a real salvation in the heat. This dish is prepared from already familiar ingredients. Firstly, these are potatoes, boiled in their skins or baked in their skins, peeled and cut into cubes or cubes. Secondly, these are diced eggs. Thirdly, boiled meat. Fourthly, greens, several fresh cucumbers and radishes are added to the okroshka if desired.
All chopped ingredients are combined in one deep bowl with pouring. To prepare it, carbonated mineral water (1.5 l) is mixed with mayonnaise (100 g), salt, mustard, lemon juice and other spices to taste. Recipe for delicious okroshka with mineral water allows you to prepare a dish in a hurry. However, the taste of this cold soup is in no way inferior to the classic version of preparation.
Okroshka with sausage
Most housewives traditionally use either boiled meat or boiled sausage when preparing this dish. We suggest you deviate a little from the rules and prepare an unusual cold soup. It uses smoked or semi-smoked sausage (about 400 g) as an original ingredient. Okroshka turns out unusual, but very tasty.
Potatoes, eggs and other ingredients are prepared similarly to previous recipes. Kefir or kvass (1.5 liters) is used as filling. Before adding to sliced foods, they must be well cooled. Other ingredients are added to okroshka to taste, for example, sour cream, salt, citric acid, mustard. Cold soup with a smoked aroma and taste is poured into bowls and served to the table.
Lenten okroshka recipe
The obligatory ingredient of this traditional dish is meat or sausage. But if you adhere to church fasting, you will have to give up these ingredients.
The recipe for delicious okroshka (lenten) is as follows:
- First of all, prepare boiled water and cool it well.
- Finely chop boiled potatoes, cucumbers, radishes and herbs. Neither eggs nor meat are used in preparing Lenten okroshka.
- Additionally, lettuce leaves torn by hand are added.
- Green onions are chopped and ground in a mortar until juice forms.
- The prepared ingredients are poured with chilled water and seasoned with lean mayonnaise, soy sauce, citric acid, salt and pepper.
- The finished Lenten okroshka is placed in the refrigerator for half an hour, after which it is safely served to the dinner table.
