Okroshka is an indispensable dish in the summer heat.
It is tasty, healthy, besides, it is very refreshing and nourishing.
Options for cooking cold soup a lot.
Some cook okroshka on kvass, others on kefir, whey, mineral water.
However, the simplest and at the same time acceptable for many will be the preparation of okroshka on water, and all because the water does not have a specific taste that can interrupt the taste, the ingredients that make up the dish.
Okroshka on water - general principles of preparation
The principle of cooking okroshka on water is not much different from any other type of okroshka. All products are washed, those that require heat treatment - boiled, others are simply cleaned. After everything is crushed into cubes of the same size and mixed.
In the resulting salad to taste add spices and salt. The water itself is poured not into a common saucepan, but directly into a serving plate. The amount of water is regulated based on preferences.
To give a bright, but not obsessive taste notes, add sour cream, mayonnaise, lemon juice or citric acid, vinegar, mustard, chopped horseradish to the water.
Recipe 1. Okroshka classic on water
Ingredients:
• three liters of water;
• 700 grams of lean beef or veal;
• kilogram of potatoes;
• ten eggs;
• 300 grams of mayonnaise;
• one lemon;
• two tablespoons of mustard;
• salt pepper;
• green onions, parsley leaves and dill.
Cooking Method:
1. Pour water into the pan, put the washed piece of beef into it, cook until ready.
2. Wash the potatoes thoroughly, boil, without peeling, in another saucepan. Next, carefully remove from the pan and clean.
3. Green onion feathers and dill and parsley leaves are rinsed in cold water and finely chopped.
4. Boil eggs hard-boiled, cool, laid out in cold water. We clear from the shell. We remove five yolks, we don’t need them, ten proteins and five yolks are enough for such a volume of okroshka. 5. Wash cucumbers, peel them with a thin layer.
6. Cut all the prepared ingredients into small cubes.
7. We put everything, except greens and yolks, in one big capacity. Stir by adding salt and pepper to taste.
8. Crush five yolks with a fork, add mustard, mayonnaise and lemon juice to taste.
9. Dilute this mixture with water.
10. We lay out the blank for okroshka in plates, we put greens to taste, we fill with prepared water.
Recipe 2. Okroshka on water with sausage and ham
Ingredients:
• one and a half liters of water;
• three eggs;
• three potato tubers;
• two cucumbers;
• two radishes;
• 300 grams of cooked sausage without lard;
• 200 grams of chicken ham;
• tablespoon sour cream;
• salt;
• a small bunch of dill and green onions;
• one third teaspoon of citric acid.
Cooking Method:
1. Wash all vegetables, boil potatoes in uniform, then cool and peel.
2. Cut radishes, cucumbers and boiled potatoes in small cubes.
3. Dice the same size as the vegetables, chop and sausage with ham, and boiled eggs.
4. Grind washed greens.
5. Fold all the sliced ingredients into the pan, pour filtered or pre-boiled and cooled water.
6. Fill okroshka on water with sour cream, salt and citric acid.
7. Spill soup in plates, served with fresh sour cream.
Recipe 3. Okroshka on water with vinegar and sour cream
Ingredients:
• a pound of potatoes;
• four eggs;
• three fresh cucumbers;
• 400 grams of sausage;
• 250 grams of sour cream;
• a large bunch of dill;
• a tablespoon of vinegar essence;
• to taste water, salt, pepper.
Cooking Method:
1. Peel boiled potatoes until ready, as well as hard boiled eggs.
2. Cut the potatoes into small cubes.
3. Eggs with sausage rubbed grated large.
4. Rinse the cucumbers thoroughly, cut two into small cubes, grate one. 5. My dill, remove the thick twigs, leaving only delicate leaves, chop finely.
6. Pre-boiled water is cooled in the refrigerator, then mixed with vinegar, ground pepper and salt, sour cream.
7. Mix vegetables, herbs, sausage and eggs, pour water.
Recipe 4. Okroshka on soda water and kefir
Ingredients:
• one liter of sparkling water without taste;
• 200 grams of boiled sausage;
• six eggs;
• four small fresh cucumbers;
• radish to taste;
• three potatoes;
• a bunch of dill;
• bunch of green onions;
• liter of kefir;
• salt;
• lemon slices.
Cooking Method:
1. Cut boiled potatoes into cubes.
2. Boiled hard-boiled eggs are cleaned and finely crumbled in any convenient way.
3. All my cucumbers, three cut into small cubes, one rubbed coarsely on a grater.
4. Boiled sausage, which can also be replaced with boiled beef or chicken, cut into small pieces.
5. Rinse the radish, remove the skin with a thin layer so that it does not burn, rub the vegetables on a coarse grater.
6. Green onions and dill chopped.
7. Mix all the ingredients in a large container, salt to taste.
8. In another container, mix the kefir and water. It is important that both ingredients are very cold.
9. Pour water with kefir into okroshka just before serving.
10. In each plate put the thinnest slice of lemon.
Recipe 5. Okroshka on water and kvass with chicken meat
Ingredients:
• a pound of chicken fillet;
• a pound of potatoes;
• a pound of cucumbers;
• four eggs;
• parsley, dill, onion;
• sour cream for refueling;
• spices and salt;
• kvass and water in equal proportions.
Cooking Method:
1. Parsley, green onions and dill take in large quantities. Thoroughly wash all the greens, remove the thick stems, finely chop the feathers of the green onion and dill and parsley leaves. Put the greens in a deep bowl, salt a little, mnev hands up to the selection of juice. 2. Rinse the chicken fillet, boil until done, put it in a saucepan with slightly salted water. Carefully remove from broth, cool, chop into cubes.
3. Potatoes, previously boiled in uniform and cooled, peeled and chopped in small cubes.
4. Mix greens with potatoes, chicken meat.
5. Add the chopped cucumber, boiled eggs, grated on a coarse grater.
6. Fill okroshka with water and kvass, mixing both ingredients in equal proportions.
7. Fill okroshka on water with sour cream just before serving in a bowl or in a plate.
Recipe 6. Okroshka on mayonnaise and water
Ingredients:
• two liters of water;
• four potatoes;
• two cucumber salad;
• five eggs;
• 350 grams of sausages;
• green onions, dill;
• three spoons of mayonnaise;
• salt;
• a teaspoon of grated horseradish;
• a teaspoon of citric acid.
Cooking Method:
1. Boil separately from each other eggs and potatoes.
2. While the products requiring heat treatment are prepared and cooled, we cut cucumbers and sausages into small cubes.
3. Rinse greens and finely chop.
4. Cut the cooked potatoes into small pieces, rub the egg whites on a coarse grater.
5. We crush the yolks of the eggs with a fork, mix with mayonnaise and grated horseradish, put salt, citric acid and black pepper in the mass.
6. Mix a mixture of yolks and spices with water.
7. Mix the potatoes with cucumbers, sausages, greens.
8. Fill okroshka with water.
9. We taste if there is enough salt, sharpness and acid, serve it to the table.
Recipe 7. Vegetable okroshka on water with green peas
Ingredients:
• 200 grams of green canned peas;
• 0.5 liters of water (available with gas);
• 0.5 liters of fresh kefir;
• four eggs;
• two potatoes;
• carrot;
• on a bunch of green onions and dill;
• salt, vinegar.
Cooking Method:
1. We thoroughly dry the washed potatoes and carrots and spread them on the grill in the oven. Bake until cooked, cool, peel. 2. Cut the roots and boiled hard-boiled eggs in small cubes.
3. Rinse greens, shred, shift to a deep bowl. Squeeze a little hands to stand out juice.
4. Put the carrots and potatoes to the greens, then transfer the eggs here.
5. Add the green peas, salt and pepper. Stir.
6. In another container, mix the water with kefir, add a little vinegar to taste.
7. We serve okroshka in the following way: we put the billet in plates, next to it we put cold water mixed with kefir and vinegar in a cup so that everyone can pour the desired amount of liquid on their own.
Recipe 8. Okroshka on water with herring
Ingredients:
• 150 grams of herring salted;
• 150 grams of boiled chicken fillet;
• two eggs;
• two cucumbers;
• three potatoes;
• green onion feathers;
• dill leaves;
• one and a half liters of water;
• to taste sour cream and salt.
Cooking Method:
1. Rub on a coarse grater peeled cucumbers.
2. Boiled hard-boiled eggs and boiled potatoes peeled and shelled, cut into small cubes.
3. Chop the green onion feathers with small rings.
4. Mix all prepared, chopped products, add boiled and finely chopped chicken.
5. If necessary, we remove the herring from the skin and bones, leaving only the fillet, which is then cut into small pieces.
6. Add herring to other products.
7. First, add salt to taste, and then pour it with cold water.
8. Serve with sour cream, if desired, sprinkle with fresh dill.
Okroshka on water - tricks and useful tips
• Use only filtered water for okroshka, in extreme cases, take the cooled boiled water.
• To cook vegetables quickly, choose not large tubers.
• If onions are a part of okroshka on water, chop it finely and be sure to remember a little before hand-laying to remove bitterness and unpleasant crunch.
• Cut all ingredients into small cubes of approximately the same size. It is very fast and convenient to do this with a special device for cutting vegetables. • Fill okroshka with water just before serving.
• Add to okroshka more greens and fresh cucumbers, radish. Thanks to these products, okroshka is especially refreshing.
• You can also put any other ingredients in the okroshka on the water to your liking.
• Do not put meat and sausage with fatty layers in okroshka.
• In addition to boiled sausage and meat, you can also put smoked or half-smoked sausage into okroshka, making a dish with a special savory taste and aroma.
• If you do not just add the yolks to the okroshka, but pre-rub the yolks with greens and salt, then the cold soup will turn out to be a beautiful rich color.
• If you made a large quantity of okroshka, you can make a salad from the remainder by filling it with sour cream or mayonnaise.
• Be sure to withstand the blank for the hash with water before mixing and serving in the refrigerator for at least 20-30 minutes.
• For any of the listed recipes, you can use not only plain water, but also mineral water with or without gas.
