During the summer heat, many hot dishes loseits relevance. They are replaced by light snacks, all kinds of cold dishes and salads. But, perhaps, the most popular summer dish is okroshka.Eto Russian national dish has a fairly large age: more than a thousand years. Already in 989, records were kept of kvass as a dressing for okroshka, formerly called "radish with kvass". The very name "okroshka" is a derived word from the verb "crumb". This is something between salad and soup, which makes it a favorite dish of many people. With the passage of time, recipes for okroshki changed, it included new ingredients or new refills. This peasant dish is truly unique: any ingredient can be successfully replaced with any other. Therefore, cooking okroshki is, undoubtedly, a creative process. The oscar can be vegetable, meat or fish. The main rule for choosing food-ingredients for a dish is their neutral taste: for example, potatoes, carrots, turnips. In combination with spicy herbs, the dish acquires a special refined taste. The composition of meat okroshka includes lean meat of different varieties. It can be turkey, beef, and chicken. Fish puffed with okroshka will give the sweetness of pike perch, sturgeon or tench. When choosing a filling for okroshki should rely entirely on your taste, but still the most common is okroshka on kefir. Okroshka on yogurt recipe is very simple. First you need to prepare all the necessary ingredients. Okroshka on yogurt recipe can include both vegetables, and meat or fish. The most simple okroshka on kefir is a recipe with the use of cooked sausage. In order to prepare this delicious dish for eight to ten servings, it is necessary to take about 300 g of boiled sausage, five to six boiled eggs, four medium boiled potatoes, about 200 g of radish, three to four large cucumbers, greens, a liter of kefir, about one and a half liters of water, salt and pepper. First prepare the thick. To do this, all the ingredients are neatly crushed. You should not tear the products severely or try to cut them with jewelry precision, but all the ingredients should be cut in one "style": either all cubes or all straws. If necessary, vegetables can be kneaded slightly with a fork. All the cut products are piled in a saucepan. Salt should be ready-made dish, otherwise the vegetables will leak the juice. Add finely chopped greens and onions. To prepare the dressing, pour the cut ingredients with kefir and dilute with water. Stir thoroughly, add salt and pepper to taste. To give the dish a barely perceptible sourness, add a teaspoon of citric acid. The dish is put in the refrigerator to cool. Okroshka on yogurt recipe is simple enough in cooking, which makes it very popular among the housewives, who want to pamper their family with a delicious summer dish. No less popular is okroshka on whey. It is very nutritious, but non-nutritive.

Okroshka recipe for serum includes allthe same products that are also okroshka, filled with yogurt. To prepare the dressing in the serum salt and pepper to taste and finely chopped greens. If desired, you can add half a glass of cucumber pickle and mustard. The resulting filling is filled with a mixture of sliced ​​ingredients. If the dish is thick enough, it should be diluted with boiled or mineral water.
But still the traditional variant of the dish is okroshka on kvass, because only it gives this summer dish a richness of taste.

Okroshka recipe on kvass uses naturalunsweetened kvass. However, if you can not cook kvass at home, you can buy draft kvass from the barrel. Okroshka has a delicate and at the same time rich taste, it is easy to prepare, and therefore will surely become a favorite dish of the summer table.

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