Any housewife should know how to cook okroshka. After all, this simple tasty dish is loved by adults and children. Such a low-calorie cold soup has a rich taste and benefits for the body.

Classical okroshka on kvass

Okroshka on kvass is the most common cooking option for this dish. Usually they use unsweetened medium-carbonated kvass, but you can take any, depending on your own preferences.

Required Products:

  • 4 potatoes;
  • 200 g of cooked sausage;
  • 3 eggs;
  • 2 fresh cucumbers;
  • half onion;
  • a bunch of greenery;
  • 1 liter of kvass;
  • sour cream.

Cooking:

  1. Wash and boil the potatoes (for okroshka, the yellow variety is more suitable). Cut into cubes.
  2. Cook the eggs for 7-10 minutes and chop coarsely.
  3. Grind sausage, cucumbers and onions.
  4. Wash and dry the greens, chop finely. Traditionally, green onions and dill are placed in okroshka.
  5. Mix all the foods in a saucepan.
  6. Arrange the mixture on serving plates and pour in chilled kvass.
  7. Serve with sour cream.

To decorate the finished dish, you can put in a plate half boiled quail eggs or leaves of fresh herbs.

Cooking on kefir

Okroshka on kefir has a special mild taste with a slight acidity. Great for those who don't like fizzy drinks. This dish is best done with lean meats.

Products:

  • 300 g chicken or turkey;
  • 4–5 potatoes;
  • 3 eggs;
  • 5-6 pcs. radish;
  • 2 medium cucumbers;
  • dill to taste;
  • 1.5 liters of kefir.

Step by step recipe:

  1. Boil the meat, cool and cut into small pieces.
  2. Boil and chop potatoes and eggs.
  3. Wash radishes and cucumbers. If they have a thick and bitter peel, it is better to peel it. Dice vegetables.
  4. Wash the dill and chop finely.
  5. Combine all products.
  6. Pour kefir salad directly on a plate.

It is better to use a product with a minimum percentage of fat content, otherwise the okroshka will turn out to be too thick. If necessary, kefir can be diluted with water.

How to cook on whey

Delicious okroshka on whey is a great option for a light snack. This product is low-calorie, healthy and has a rich, rich taste. Serum can be used either ready-made or made independently.

We will need:

  • 4 milk sausages;
  • 3 medium potatoes;
  • 2 small cucumbers;
  • 3 eggs;
  • a bunch of greens (dill, spring onions);
  • 0.5 l of serum.

Cooking:

  1. Boil potatoes and eggs. Sausages can be used both raw and boiled.
  2. Finely chop and mix all products.
  3. Rinse and dry the greens. Finely chop with your hands or cut.
  4. To prepare whey, take kefir and pour into iron dishes. The container should be heated in a water bath until the liquid separates from the curd.
  5. Cool serum.

Prepared vegetable mixture should be poured with whey immediately before use, add sour cream or mayonnaise to taste.

Okroshka with sausage on ayran

Ayran is a very healthy sour-milk drink that perfectly quenches thirst and increases appetite. Okroshka on such a drink turns sour.

Ingredients:

  • 200 g of sausage;
  • 400 g of potatoes;
  • 2 cucumbers;
  • 3 eggs;
  • 1 onion;
  • 5 heads of radish;
  • a large bunch of greenery;
  • 700 ml of ayran.

Cooking:

  1. Boil potatoes, cool and cut into cubes.
  2. Cut the sausage into small strips. You can take a doctor's or smoked.
  3. Hard-boiled eggs and finely chop.
  4. Wash and chop the cucumber, radish and onion. It is necessary to peel the vegetables if they are overripe.
  5. Wash and chop greens, add to other products. Herbs go well with the taste of ayran, so you can use several types at once: dill, parsley, green onions and cilantro.
  6. Mix all products in a deep container, put on plates and pour ayran.

Mayonnaise Recipe

When there are no standard drinks for dressing okroshka, mayonnaise with lemon diluted in water comes to the rescue. To taste, this recipe is in no way inferior to the more common and very helpful when the dish needs to be cooked in a hurry.

We will need:

  • 300 g of boiled meat;
  • 4 large potatoes;
  • 3 eggs;
  • 3 fresh cucumbers;
  • half a lemon;
  • 1 small onion;
  • greens optional;
  • 150 g mayonnaise;
  • sour cream to taste.

We prepare as follows:

  1. Boil the meat until tender, cool and divide with a knife into small pieces. A good flavor combination is pork with chicken or beef with turkey.
  2. Boil potatoes and eggs and crumble.
  3. Wash and cut fresh cucumbers by peeling.
  4. Chop the onion.
  5. Add greens if desired.
  6. Dilute mayonnaise in 1–1.5 l of water, stirring until the lumps disappear.
  7. Add lemon juice.

Serve chilled with sour cream.

Easy option on the water

As a dressing for okroshka, you can use both various drinks and plain water. To make okroshka tasty on water, it is recommended to add mushrooms, fish, pickled vegetables or black radish in addition to standard products.

Ingredients:

  • 200 g of beef;
  • 200 g of salted mushrooms;
  • 2 eggs;
  • 2 pickled cucumbers;
  • 2 potato tubers;
  • 1 onion;
  • a bunch of greenery;
  • sour cream.

Cooking:

  1. Cook the meat and cut into small pieces.
  2. Grind the mushrooms, after allowing the excess liquid to drain.
  3. Cut boiled potatoes and eggs into small cubes. For density, grind one half of mashed potatoes.
  4. Grind cucumbers and onions, mix with the rest of the ingredients.
  5. Chop greens and add to other products at the very end. Dill and green onions go well with mushrooms.
  6. Dilute okroshka with water in a ratio of 1: 1.

Serve the dish with the addition of sour cream.

Tasty okroshka with kefir and mineral water

Another popular way to cook okroshka is with kefir and mineral water. Kefir gives this dish satiety, and mineral water - a refreshing taste. To add spice, you can add mustard dressing to the dish.

Required Products:

  • 200 g of cooked sausage;
  • 100 g of pork;
  • 4 potatoes;
  • 5 eggs;
  • 3 cucumbers;
  • greens to taste;
  • 0.5 l of low-fat kefir;
  • 0.5 mineral water;
  • 1 tbsp. l finished mustard;
  • sour cream.

Cooking:

  1. Boil pork and cut into small pieces.
  2. Cut the sausage into strips.
  3. Cook potatoes and eggs, leave 2 egg yolks for dressing, chop everything else.
  4. Wash the cucumbers, if necessary, peel and chop. Mix all the products.
  5. To prepare the dressing, grind two yolks with mustard and mix the resulting mixture with the bulk. Let it brew for 30 minutes.
  6. Mix kefir with mineral water and season okroshka directly in plates.
  7. Serve with sour cream chilled.

There are a large number of okroshka recipes and many subtleties of its preparation. For example, if you want a thicker dish, rub a couple of yolks and a half of potatoes and add to the total mass. If you need to get an easy version of this soup, you should refrain from adding meat, and choose kvass or mineral water as a fill. And also do not forget about greens and spicy vegetables, such as radish, radish and horseradish. With them okroshka will become really tasty.

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