Okroshka is an original first dish that has been popular in Russia since the end of the 12th century. In the warm season, it is especially true, as it is a cold soup. Okroshka is a mixture of crushed products (meat, fish, vegetables, herbs, spices), filled with pre-cooked dressing. When choosing components, everyone can take into account personal preferences in food. For example, someone who follows his figure should like a chicken okroshka. You can cook it in different ways. Everything will depend on the type of refueling you choose. Typically, such soups are prepared on water, broth, kefir, whey, kvass and even mineral water. In each of these options okroshka acquires a completely new taste. As an example, we can consider only a few of them.
Okroshka on a mineral water
To prepare a cold soup called okroshka, you can use different vegetables in any combination. In addition, eggs must be included in the recipe. This ingredient gives the dish a special flavor. The choice of meat and dressing depends on which products are most popular in a particular area or a single family. The best option for many is okroshka with chicken. And to make the dish itself more useful and nutritious, it can be prepared with mineral water. To work, you need the following required components:
300 grams of boiled chicken breast, 1 liter of lightly carbonated mineral water, 3 boiled eggs, salt, 50 grams of radish, 150 grams of fresh cucumbers, 200 grams of sour cream, 350 grams of boiled potatoes, a bunch of herbs, 4 grams of mustard, a little lemon (or vinegar) and a few feathers of green onions.
Preparing an okroshka with chicken is very simple:
- Remove skin from chilled boiled meat (it is better not to put it in soup), and cut the rest into medium-sized cubes.
- Grind potatoes and cucumbers in a similar way.
- Grate radish with a coarse grater.
- Boiled eggs can simply be crushed with a fork.
- Finely chop the greens.
- Put all prepared ingredients in a pan.
- Add a mixture of mustard with sour cream.
- Pour all mineral water. With this component, you can control the desired density of the soup.
- Salt and add a lemon.
After this okroshka you can immediately eat. In some families, the crushed products are laid out on plates, and each person himself adds dressing in the right amount.
Okroshka on the broth
The okroshka with chicken cooked in the broth is especially tasty. In this case, the soup retains the unique aroma of delicate dietary meat. For such a dish, you can recommend using the following ratio of the main ingredients:
3 liters of broth, 0.5 kilograms of chicken, ½ liter of low-fat kefir, 100 grams of mayonnaise, a bunch of dill, 150 grams of sour cream, 300 grams of chopped ham, salt, 4 cucumbers, a teaspoon of mustard, 2 bundles of green onions, 7 potatoes, 8 eggs and some citric acid.
The cooking technology, in principle, remains the same:
- If the chicken is fresh, then it must first be boiled for an hour. After this, the meat needs to be removed from the bone, and the broth is filtered and cooled.
- Chop onion and dill finely.
- Boil eggs with potatoes and then peel and cut into small cubes.
- Similarly crumble ham.
- Transfer prepared foods to the pan.
- Add the rest of the ingredients.
- Send the soup to the refrigerator.
For 1 hour okroshka has time to insist well. After that, it can be taken out and bottled.
Serum okroshka
Fans of dairy products can experiment a little. They definitely should like a chicken-made okroshka cooked on whey. The recipe for such a dish is very similar to all the previous ones. To prepare it, you will need the following set of products:
1 chicken fillet, salt, 100 grams of sour cream, 4 potatoes and as many fresh cucumbers, 6 eggs, 15 grams of mustard, 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise and fresh herbs (dill, onion, parsley).
The process consists of several stages:
- First of all, you need to boil meat, eggs and potatoes.
- Cut the cucumbers into small cubes and put them in a deep bowl.
- There, add peeled and chopped boiled eggs.
- Potatoes for okroshka are best cooked in their uniforms. Then it must be cooled, cleaned and cut into larger cubes.
- Pour chopped greens into a bowl.
- Grind boiled meat (without skin) and also send it to a bowl.
- Stir the cooked slices thoroughly.
- Separately mix mayonnaise, sour cream and mustard.
- Add the resulting mass to the main products and mix again.
10. To taste add a little salt.
11. Pour everything with chilled whey and let the soup stand for a while.
Such a dish will have a special refreshing effect.
Okroshka on kefir
Some believe that the most delicious is okroshka on kefir with chicken. But in this regard, everyone has their own opinion. Nevertheless, in most cases, it is kefir that is used as a dressing for the preparation of this dish. In this case, the list of components will be as follows:
120 grams of chicken breast, 500 milliliters of kefir (nonfat), 2 potatoes, 1 cucumber, 2 large radishes, salt, 1 egg, 9 branches of fresh herbs and a little ground pepper.
How to cook such okroshka:
- First you need to boil an egg and potatoes. After cooling, the products should be cleaned and crumbled.
- Breast also needs to be prepared. With it, the first thing you need to cut off all the fat. For such a soup it is not needed. The remaining meat should be boiled until cooked.
- Dice (or circles) cut radish and cucumber.
- Disassemble the chilled meat into pieces with your hands.
- Greens chop randomly.
- Collect the products in a deep container, salt and add a little pepper.
- Constantly stirring with a spoon, slowly pour kefir.
The cooked dish should stand in the refrigerator for 20 minutes. During this time, the products will have time to exchange tastes.
Okroshka on kvass
Traditionally in Russia, kvass was used to make okroshka. True, this was not the product that is sold in any store today. But even with ordinary bread kvass, the soup is simply excellent. True, it is better to choose a product with a minimum sugar content or even use a home-made drink. For work you will need:
300 grams of chicken, 3 potatoes, 0.5 liters of kvass, salt, 1 cucumber, 4 eggs, as well as a little dill and green onions.
Okroshka on kvass with chicken is prepared as follows:
- Boil the meat, cool, and then finely chop. In principle, the fillet can simply be taken apart into separate fibers with your hands.
- Potatoes with eggs must also be boiled first. This can be done in advance. Then the products need to be cleaned and crushed in small cubes.
- Cut fresh cucumber in the same way.
- Chop greens arbitrarily.
- Collect the products in one container, salt and mix well.
- Arrange the prepared mass on plates and pour kvass.
It turns out an excellent cold soup with a pleasant aroma and a small intoxicated sourness. And small kvass bubbles give an additional refreshing effect.
The energy value of the dish
Choosing a dish for your diet, you must first learn more about its energy value. This is especially true for those who are afraid of gaining extra pounds. Calorie okroshka with chicken depends on the set of products from which it is prepared.
The type of fueling has little effect on this indicator. The energy value of 100 grams of okroshka with the addition of poultry does not exceed 60 kilocalories. Provided that a traditional recipe is used to make the soup. The amount of main products in it is calculated in such a way that the ratio of vegetables to meat is 1: 1. Nevertheless, the liquid component of this dish still has a certain meaning. For example, 100 grams of cold soup, seasoned with kvass, contains 52 kilocalories. This is quite a bit. With dairy products, the result will be different. So, in okroshka with the addition of kefir 55 kilocalories are already contained. In general, it is an ideal food for those who want to lose weight. With minimal energy value, this dish contains a huge amount of macro- and microelements necessary for the normal functioning of the whole organism.