Okroshka is a cold soup dish, the basis of which is a mixture of finely chopped products, doused with some kind of liquid drink. The classic version of this dish involves seasoning with kvass, but okroshka with kefir sometimes turns out even tastier. In addition, whey or mineral water, cucumber pickle or some kind of vegetable juice are often used as a liquid base. One of the key ingredients included in okroshka has always been and remains any boiled meat, but it can easily be replaced with boiled sausage. As for the remaining components (and these are vegetables), here you can already dream up. for example, add radishes, greens. Okroshka made with kefir and mineral water is especially good during the hot season, when there is neither the strength nor the desire to stand in front of the stove preparing hot dishes. True, you still have to boil a couple of ingredients for this dish.
History of making okroshka
This cold soup, into which various boiled and fresh/salted/pickled vegetables are crumbled, is traditionally classified as Russian cuisine, but it can be assumed that such a dish was also known in Kievan Rus, where kvass was first popularized during the reign of Prince Vladimir.
In addition, cold soups based on fermented milk products are part of the culinary heritage of many cuisines around the world, especially in southern European and eastern countries (chalop, dzhadzhik, taratar, dahi chorba, dogramach, ovdukh). Have fun preparing all their varieties with KhozOboz! Before preparing okroshka using kefir with mineral water, you should take care of preparing the kefir - fermenting homemade milk with enzymes will take about a day, but you can get by with store-bought kefir of your personal preferred fat content. KhozOboz prefers the naturalness and freshness of farm products, so in the products for okroshka with kefir and mineral water in the photo you see homemade kefir made from whole goat milk. We will have okroshka with kefir, the recipe is “Classic”, so, unlike the vegetarian version, it necessarily uses boiled meat. KhozOboz, this time, decided to use pork carbonate, but you can replace it with any other meat that is suitable for classic okroshka with kefir and you like, or you already have in stock.
Step-by-step preparation
Preparing the ingredients
- To begin, thoroughly wash five potatoes, place them in a saucepan, cover with water and cook until tender. There is no need to salt the water. Cool the finished potatoes. Then peel it.
- You also need to hard boil five eggs. Pour cold water over the hot eggs and leave them in it for five minutes. This will help you peel the shells off easily, and you'll spend minimal time peeling the eggs.
- Then wash all the vegetables for okroshka and leave them to drain.
Cooking okroshka
- Prepare a cutting board and finely dice four cucumbers, four radishes, boiled potatoes and eggs, and sausage. For okroshka you can use different types of sausage, depending on the desired result. If you want to get a delicate taste, then choose doctor’s sausage, and if you like a more piquant, spicy taste, smoked salami sausage. For those who lead a healthy lifestyle and prefer not to consume sausage in their diet, you can use boiled beef. If you want to speed up the cooking process, you can grate the vegetables on a coarse grater. Pour the crushed ingredients into a deep container and take care of the greens. For okroshka you can use dill, parsley and celery. Fresh green onions also perfectly complement the taste of the dish. The greens need to be washed and finely chopped. Then add it to the rest of the chopped ingredients and mix.
- Pour one and a half liters of kefir and a liter of carbonated mineral water into a deep saucepan. Add a teaspoon of mustard, a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar, and half a teaspoon of salt. Mix all ingredients using a whisk. To season okroshka, instead of kefir, you can use kvass or mineral water with sour cream.
- Carefully add the chopped vegetable dressing to the kefir and mineral water in the pan. Mix everything with a spatula, cover with a lid and send the okroshka to the refrigerator to infuse and cool. Pour the finished dish into bowls and serve with fresh bread.
About the benefits of okroshka on kefir with water
The kefir okroshka we presented, the recipe with photo of which you looked at above, is one of the extremely healthy summer soups. The high fiber content in fresh vegetables and the addition of a decent amount of mineral water reduce the calorie content of okroshka with kefir, which is attractive for those who control their weight by monitoring the total daily caloric intake of food eaten.
Alternative options for preparing okroshka with kefir
Do you like okroshka on kefir with sausage and other meat products (ham, ham, boiled pork)? Prepare it using the above ingredients for the recipe for kefir okroshka with sausage, only replacing the boiled meat with your favorite boiled sausage (“Doctorskaya”, “Children’s”, “Ostankinskaya”, “Molochnaya”). KhozOboz guarantees all okroshka lovers that they will definitely enjoy cold fermented milk soup with the addition of mineral water. Have a pleasant gastronomic experience!
Proven recipe with mustard and mayonnaise
I complete my assortment with a bomb spicy okroshka with mustard and mayonnaise. It turns out very cold with ice. Well, it’s incredibly delicious, especially if you add z.
Required ingredients:
- Sausage - 250 gr.;
- Boiled chicken eggs - 3 pieces;
- Boiled potatoes - 3 pieces;
- Fresh cucumber - 2 pieces;
- Green onion - a bunch;
- Radish - 150 gr.;
- Kefir - 0.5 l.;
- Mineral water - 0.5 l.;
- Mayonnaise - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- Mustard - 1 teaspoon;
- Spices - to taste.
Cooking process:
1. First of all, freeze the ice. We will add it later with mineral water.
2. Chop boiled and cooled eggs and potatoes into small cubes. Place them immediately in a large container.
3. Chop the sausage into cubes and place it there too.
4. Next, cut the radishes and cucumbers into cubes.
The smaller we cut it, the more pleasant the dish will be to eat later.
5. Pour everything into the bowl with the rest of the ingredients.
6. Chop the onion and dill. Add to the bowl. Mix the whole mass with a wooden spatula.
7. Add two tablespoons of mayonnaise and one teaspoon of mustard. Salt and pepper a little. Stir again.
8. Pour kefir over the food. Mix the mixture with a spatula.
9. Place pieces of ice in mineral water. Let them dissolve a little and add to the total mass in the bowl. Mix with a spatula. Before eating, put the dish in the refrigerator for one hour to let it brew.
Okroshka with kefir and mineral water is a healthy dish that will quench your thirst and hunger, and also give you strength. As you can see, its production uses the simplest products that are found in any home. And some also add vegetables from their garden beds.
Finally, I wish you success in cooking and good mood!
As soon as the first spring sun comes out, you want to eat something summer, refreshing, for example, okroshka. Okroshka is the most popular cold soup in Russian and Ukrainian cuisines. Okroshka is especially good on a hot summer day.
The name of this dish speaks for itself; all the components of the “okroshka” are simply chopped, or rather “crumbed” and, as a rule, filled with kvass.
If you want it right now, but don’t have kvass, make okroshka with kefir, mixing it with table sparkling mineral water. In accordance with your culinary preferences, you can make changes to the list of products and their quantity.
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Classic okroshka on kvass with boiled sausage
Ingredients
- boiled eggs – 5-6 pcs.;
- boiled potatoes “in their jacket” – 4-5 pcs.;
- fresh cucumbers – 3-4 pcs.;
- radishes – 10 pcs.;
- boiled sausage – 500 g;
- sour cream – 1 tbsp. (200 g);
- green onion – 1 bunch;
- dill – 1 bunch;
- salt - to taste;
- citric acid – to taste.
How to cook
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Servings: 10-12 pcs.
Cuisine: Russian
Note: excluding cooking time
1. Wash the meat, add water and cook until done. Cool and cut into small cubes. We also cut the sausage.
You can replace the meat with good boiled sausage or sausages. Do not take cheap sausage, otherwise, after standing for a while, the okroshka will look like jelly.
2. Peel hard-boiled eggs and cut into small cubes.
3. Boil the potatoes “in their jackets”, but so as not to boil over. Cool, peel and cut into small cubes.
If desired, you can not boil the potatoes, but cut them into strips and fry them in a small amount of vegetable oil. It turns out no less tasty.
4. Wash cucumbers, radishes and herbs with cool water. Cut the vegetables into small cubes, finely chop the dill and green onions.
5. Place the prepared ingredients in a 3-4 liter saucepan and fill with kvass.
Instead of kvass, you can use cold meat broth or boiled water, as well as sour birch sap.
6. Add sour cream to the okroshka, citric acid or vinegar to taste, add salt and mix. Delicious okroshka is served cold.
Cold soup with mineral water and sour cream
Our selection opens with classic okroshka, but with the addition of low-fat sour cream. This is one of my favorite options. What do you prefer? Do you add this dairy product or not? If you have never tried it, then let’s prepare a delicate, refreshing dish step by step.
Required ingredients:
- Kefir - 1 liter;
- Mineral water - 1 liter;
- Sour cream 10% - 500 ml;
- Chicken eggs - 5 pieces;
- Potatoes - 5 pieces;
- Cucumbers - 3 pieces;
- Doctor's sausage - 500 gr.;
- Mustard - 1 teaspoon;
- Dill - 1 bunch
- Salt and pepper - to taste.
Cooking process:
1. Boil jacket potatoes and eggs until tender. Then cool them well.
2. Take a large bowl. We will put all the chopped ingredients into it.
3. Finely chop fresh cucumbers on a board.
Some cucumbers with particularly rough skins are best peeled. This will make the dish even more tender in taste.
In addition, you need to cut a piece from the thick part of these vegetables and taste them. It happens that it becomes very bitter, especially when farmers do not water the bushes well. Cut off all the bitter part and throw it away.
4. Immediately pour the cubes into a bowl.
5. Free the cooled eggs from the shell. We also chop them into small cubes and place them in a bowl.
6. Remove all the skin from the potatoes. We also chop it finely. In general, we try to cut everything the same size.
7. Remove the film from the sausage. We cut it first into plates, then into strips. And then chop it into small squares.
8. Wash the dill in a bowl of running water. It is better to cut off rough sticks.
These sticks can then be added to other dishes when cooked. They will give a wonderful aroma.
9. Chop the tops of the vegetables and throw them into the total mass. Mix everything well with a wooden spatula.
10. Pour kefir into a separate bowl or pan and add sour cream. Mix into a homogeneous mass.
11. Add cold mineral water to them.
12. Literally mix half a ladle of the mixture with mustard in a separate bowl. We pour the resulting mixture back.
13. Add salt and black pepper as desired.
14. Pour all the chopped salad into the kefir filling. Using a ladle, stir the finished soup and pour it into bowls.
What a piquant delicacy we got!
It’s good to add a slice of fresh Borodino bread here and you can crush it on both cheeks.
Bon appetit!
Okroshka with smoked breast
Classic okroshka with kefir is not only a recipe with vegetables and sausage. This cold soup can be served with chicken or other types of meat. The chicken can be either boiled or smoked.
Okroshka with smoked breast
Ingredients:
- 400 g smoked breast;
- 4 potato tubers;
- 4 chicken eggs;
- 4 fresh cucumbers;
- 150 g radishes;
- 2 liters of kefir;
- 150 ml sour cream;
- 1 lemon;
- greens (dill, parsley);
- salt and pepper to taste.
Preparation:
- Cut the boiled potato tubers, eggs, and smoked poultry into small pieces and pour into a saucepan.
- Chop the radishes and cucumbers into cubes or grate them. You can cut half of the vegetables with a knife, and half with a grater.
- We add the vegetables to the other ingredients, and don’t forget about the greens, which we chop finely.
- Pour in the sour drink, add sour cream, salt and pepper to taste, as well as citrus juice.
- Mix everything, cool the okroshka and serve.
One of the secrets of delicious okroshka is potatoes, which need to be boiled in their skins. The potatoes should be crumbly and not resemble a bar of soap. To do this, boil it in a small amount of water under the lid, as if steaming it, for 20-25 minutes.
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Cooking with kefir and mineral water
Many housewives know that there is a recipe for classic okroshka with sausage made with kefir and mineral water, but not everyone decides to add a carbonated drink. Don't be afraid, because the bubbles of the mineral water give the cold soup a refreshing effect.
Cooking with kefir and mineral water
Ingredients:
- 4 potato tubers;
- 4 chicken eggs;
- 4 cucumbers;
- 250 g boiled ham;
- 1 liter of kefir;
- 700 ml sparkling mineral water;
- a bunch of green onions;
- a bunch of dill;
- salt and pepper to taste.
Preparation:
- Pre-boiled potato tubers, as well as ham, which can be replaced with regular boiled sausage, are cut into cubes.
- We also boil the eggs, chop two into cubes, chop the rest on a fine grater, pour all the ingredients into the pan.
- We also pass the cucumbers through a grater and add them to the pan along with the juice.
- Next, pour in the onion and dill, which we chop finely, sprinkle with salt and mash a little to release the juice.
- Now pour in the kefir, stir and cool for half an hour, then pour in the mineral water, mix again and serve.
Okroshka is a cold soup, so for cooking you should choose low-fat varieties of sausages or meat.
Recipe for 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:
Wash the potatoes and carrots, boil them in their skins, cool, peel them and cut into small cubes. Wash the cucumbers, peel them if necessary (if they are too thick and rough) and cut into small cubes. 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. Rinse the salted mushrooms under cold water, dry with a paper towel and chop finely. Wash the radishes, dry them with a paper towel, cut off the ends and cut into thin slices. Wash the green onions, dry and finely chop.
Place all prepared ingredients in a large deep bowl and mix. Pour chilled kvass over the okroshka, season with mustard and sour cream mixture and stir again.
