Okroshka with horseradish is an excellent addition to the summer menu, because it is at this time of year you want to taste something light and refreshing. In addition, this dish is a real pride of Russian cuisine, as with a variety of its recipes no other cold soup can compare.
at the same time. What can be a cold soup?
Before proceeding to recipes for horseradish, we suggest that you familiarize yourself with the method of preparing it. As a rule, this dish is not added to the usual sausage, but boiled meat, fish or mushrooms. And for the basis instead of mineral water and kefir take a fragrant kvass.
So, how to cook this delicious dish? We present you the best of his recipes, which at the same time are very simple and consist only of commonly available ingredients.
Okroshka with horseradish, meat and mustard
We take products for okroshki with horseradish and mustard:
- Polkilo meat( chicken, pork, beef);
- 5-6 potatoes;
- A bunch of radishes;
- Eggs are six pieces;
- 2-3 medium cucumber;
- Two liters of bread kvass;
- Mustard teaspoonful;
- Piece of root and two or three leaves of horseradish;
- One bunch of green onions;
- A bunch of parsley;
- Half a cup of sour cream;
- Salt and pepper to taste.
We start cooking: for this soup is best to take chicken or beef meat. Boil it to the full. Also cook eggs and potatoes.
Tip! Potatoes must be cooked in uniforms, because boiled tubers without skin, after cooking are easily crumbled and difficult to cut into small cubes.
When eggs are cooked, you need to separate the proteins and yolks. Proteins are postponed, and yolks are rubbed on a fine grater. The root of the horse-radish is also crushed and we add ground yolks and mustard to it, mix it well. Sdabrivaya okroshka horseradish and mustard, you give the dish a more piquant taste.
Then we clean the boiled potatoes from the peel and cut into small cubes. Finely chop everything else: radish, cucumber, meat, egg whites, horseradish and parsley.
Take a pan or a deep bowl and put into it all the cut components. Mix with ground yolks with mustard and horseradish root. All this is poured with kvass, about half a liter, and put in the refrigerator to cool - for about an hour.
After the specified time, after the soup is infused and cooled, add the remaining portion of kvass, salt and pepper to taste.
This meat soup is served very simply - you can add sour cream to a plate or add more kvass if it seems that the dish is too thick.
Note! For okroshki with horseradish, as for other cold soups, spices need to be taken more than for hot dishes.
Okroshka with horseradish and mushrooms on kvass
Required products for horseradish and mushrooms on kvass:
- Salted or pickled mushrooms - 1 glass;
- 4 potato tubers;
- 6 glasses of bread kvass;
- A bunch of green onions;
- A pair of small horseradish roots;
- Fennel bunch;
- Half a cup of sour cream;
- Salt to taste.
First of all we cook potatoes in uniforms. When it cools down, we clean it and cut it into small cubes. Rinse the mushrooms and cut into small pieces, also chop the green onion. We rub the horseradish root on a small grater. All this is put into a saucepan and add cold kvass, mix well, pour in a tablespoon of sour cream, salt to taste. And once again we carefully mix everything. Before serving, put sour cream on the plate and sprinkle it with finely chopped dill.
Fish and horseradish oyster
Essential products for horseradish and fish soup:
- Fish fillet - a pound;
- One and a half liter of kvass;
- Half a cup of finely chopped green onions;
- Three medium fresh cucumbers;
- 2-3 pieces of eggs;
- 3 medium potatoes;
- Small horseradish root;
- Half a cup of sour cream;
- A bunch of dill.
Fish fillet cook until ready and after it has cooled, cut into small pieces. Eggs cook and also finely chopped. Cucumbers rubbed on a "grizzly" grater, and chopped green onion with salt.
Chop the root of horseradish, add kvass and mix everything thoroughly. Sliced products are combined with kvass with horseradish, add sour cream and finely chopped dill. When serving on a table, hot potatoes are laid out in a dish and everything is covered with dill on top.
Secrets of making tasty horseradish with horseradish
To make the cold soup very tasty, only fresh ingredients should be used when preparing it. Otherwise, the result will not be the best.
Please note! Only fresh products are able to give the dish an incredibly easy taste and at the same time awaken your receptors, giving a real pleasure!
In general, okroshka with horseradish is quite tolerant of changes and is ready to accept almost any component. This gives you the opportunity to experiment with the recipe and does not require high culinary skills. But nevertheless there are some tricks that will help make the taste of this dish incredible.
What to add?
- Instead of boiled meat you can use smoked.
- Fish can be replaced by seafood.
- Use not boiled potatoes, but fried.
- If you do not like kvass, instead of it add the usual kefir or diluted sour cream to the dish.
- In the summer, sourness in food is very relevant, so in a cold soup it is worth putting a little lemon acid or freshly squeezed lemon juice.
Bon appetit!