The most delicious and easy-to-follow spring dish is okroshka. Moreover, it is suitable for both a festive and everyday table. Adults and children alike love her. That is why in the article we will consider various recipes for okroshka. Classic versions will be presented, as well as several improved, modified ones.
Classic recipe
From time immemorial, okroshka was prepared in Russia, and the technology for its preparation and the list of necessary ingredients were passed down from generation to generation. Therefore, the first paragraph of this article will describe the dish that came to us from the ancestors.
To prepare it, the following components are required:
- 200 grams of boiled beef meat;
- 4 fresh cucumbers;
- 3 medium-sized potatoes;
- 3 chicken eggs;
- 240 grams of sour cream;
- cilantro and green onions in one small bunch;
- a pinch of salt and sugar;
- 1/3 teaspoon of citric acid;
- half a teaspoon of mustard sauce;
- 1.5 liters of kvass.
The recipe for a classic okroshka says that we need to make the following manipulations:
- First of all, thoroughly rinse all vegetables and greens under the tap.
- Then lay eggs and potatoes in a pan. Put on the fire and boil the first ingredient for ten minutes, the second - forty-fifty.
- After the specified time, remove and pour in cold water for several minutes to make it easier to clean.
- Then start preparing the remaining ingredients, starting with boiled meat. It should be cut into cubes and poured into a prepared container.
- Next, chop the diced cucumbers.
- Crush greens as finely as possible.
- Finally, get the potatoes and eggs. And also cut them into cubes.
- Send in a container with herbs and meat.
- Add salt and sugar.
- Pour with kvass, put sour cream, mustard sauce and pour citric acid.
- To stir thoroughly.
- When the cooking process comes to an end, the classic okroshka created according to the described recipe must be refrigerated for an hour and a half.
- Serve directly or with a slice of lemon for decoration.
Okroshka with sausage
Perhaps, for some, the previous version of the dish seems strange and somehow tasteless. And all because they are used to a completely different dish, which includes cooked sausage, and not meat. Especially for such a reader, we offer another recipe for okroshka.
The following components are required for cooking:
- 2 liters of kefir;
- 200 grams of sour cream;
- 2 cups of cooled boiled water;
- 300 grams of cooked sausage (preferably without fat);
- 3 fresh cucumbers;
- 3 chicken eggs;
- 4 small potatoes;
- a bunch of favorite greens;
- a bunch of radishes;
- a pinch of salt.
If you wish, you can, leaving all the ingredients except kefir and water, complete the recipe for okroshka with sausage on kvass. The cooking technology will be identical.
Instruction:
- First, just as in the previous recipe, we need to boil the eggs and potatoes.
- Then chop them into cubes and pour them into a pan of a suitable size.
- Next add diced sausages, cucumbers and radishes.
- Pour finely chopped greens last.
- Sprinkle the indicated ingredients with salt and mix thoroughly.
- Then pour kefir and water, put sour cream.
- Mix everything again until the sour cream is completely dissolved.
- And put in the refrigerator for at least half an hour.
Okroshka with ham
Many people consider it a classic recipe for okroshka with sausage, because it was from childhood that grandmothers and mothers prepared it for every family celebration. Therefore, children who are accustomed to this option, having become parents, also instill in their babies love for it.
However, if you wish, you can improve it a bit, replacing the sausage with ham, and fresh cucumbers with salted ones.
Mayonnaise okroshka
Modern housewives quite often experiment with different traditional dishes. And the dish studied in the article could not remain unchanged. Therefore, the recipe for okrosha presented below is rather difficult to call classical. But its taste is quite pleasant, so it also deserves some attention from the reader.
The following components are required for cooking:
- 3 medium-sized potatoes;
- 4 fresh cucumbers;
- one onion head;
- 200 grams of smoked sausage;
- 3 chicken eggs;
- mayonnaise - 10 tablespoons;
- 1.5 liters of cooled boiled water;
- half a teaspoon of citric acid;
- a pinch of salt.
Executing the okroshka recipe with the photo below is quite simple:
- First you need to boil potatoes and eggs.
- Then chop both ingredients into cubes.
- Also do with cucumbers and smoked sausage.
- Finely chop the onion and herbs and sprinkle with the rest of the ingredients.
- Then lay out the mayonnaise, add salt and mix thoroughly.
- Finally, pour all the components with water, season with citric acid and mix again.
- Put the finished dish in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
Chicken Okroshka
Not all people like beef, and sausages such scary tales go on the Internet that sometimes you’re just afraid to eat this strange product. However, I still want to cook the dish studied in the article. And then what to do? Use the following okroshka recipe.
For its execution, the following ingredients will be required:
- 3 small potatoes;
- 200 grams of chicken ;;
- 4 pickles
- 3 chicken eggs;
- a large bunch of green onions;
- 200 grams of sour cream;
- 1.5 liters of sparkling mineral water;
- half a teaspoon of salt;
- half a lemon.
How to cook:
- First of all, we need to wash the chicken fillet under water, cut off the fat and veins, add water and put it to boil for half an hour.
- In another saucepan, lay eggs and potatoes. We also put them on fire.
- Without wasting time, we proceed to the preparation of the remaining components. Dice the cucumbers and finely chop the green onions.
- When the boiled ingredients are ready, we proceed directly to the study of technology, which is actually very simple. To begin with, we should chop potatoes, eggs and chicken into cubes.
- Add them in to the cucumbers and onions.
- Sprinkle all the components with salt, season with sour cream and mix.
- Then pour out the water, squeeze the lemon juice and stir again.
- Send the finished dish to the refrigerator for fifteen minutes.
Fiery okroshka
We have already said that modern housewives are very fond of experimenting. Because the original dishes get bored over time, the household asks for something new and the poor ladies start to spin. So they have to "pervert."
For example, the recipe for okroshka with sausage described in the current paragraph is distinguished by a bright color that gives one interesting product. To learn more about it, you should study the ingredients necessary for the execution of the recipe:
- 3-4 medium potatoes;
- one carrot;
- 2 chicken eggs;
- 3 fresh cucumbers;
- a bunch of radishes;
- half a pod of bitter red pepper.
- 200 grams of smoked sausage;
- 1.5 liters of tomato juice;
- a teaspoon of ground paprika;
- a pinch of salt.
How to cook:
- First of all, we wash the vegetables under the tap, then we put the potatoes, carrots and eggs in a saucepan, pour water and put on the stove.
- Without wasting time, we proceed to the preparation of the remaining components. First, dice the sausage.
- Following her carefully washed cucumbers and radishes.
- We cut the hot pepper into thin rings.
- Then go to the cooked ingredients. We remove potatoes and carrots from the peel and also cut into cubes.
- Eggs are peeled and rubbed on a coarse grater.
- Finally, we season our dish with tomato juice, add salt and paprika, slightly add salt.
- We mix everything and send the okroshka cooked according to the recipe described above to the refrigerator for twenty to thirty minutes.
Vegetarian okroshka
The next option will surely appeal to those who do not eat meat products. After all, it consists solely of vegetables. However, thanks to one unusual ingredient, its taste becomes much more interesting and pleasant.
We’ll talk about cooking technology a little later, but for now we’ll study a list of important components:
- 3 potatoes;
- 4 pickles;
- a bunch of radishes;
- a bunch of green onions;
- a bunch of cilantro;
- 3 cloves of garlic;
- 50 grams of walnuts;
- a pinch of salt;
- 1.5 liters of kvass.
To execute this okroshka recipe, you will need to make several of the previously described manipulations:
- First you need to wash all the vegetables and herbs.
- Then boil the potatoes.
- And cut it into cubes.
- Finely chop the greens, chop the cucumbers into cubes.
- Pass the garlic through a press or grate.
- Break the walnuts in the blender.
- Mix all these ingredients and pour kvass.
- Season the dish with salt and refrigerate for an hour and a half.
Okroshka with quail eggs
The following recipe for ingredients is not particularly original. However, due to one nuance, as well as the way the design of the dish, such okroshka can be considered another modern know-how.
To prepare it, you will need ingredients such as:
- 3 potatoes;
- 2 pickles and 2 fresh;
- 200 grams of boiled sausages;
- 8 quail eggs;
- a large bunch of greenery;
- 0.5 brine;
- one liter of kvass;
- half a teaspoon of ground allspice.
To execute this recipe okroshka on kvass is quite simple. It is only necessary:
- Boil eggs and potatoes. Grate the last component on a coarse grater.
- Cut salted and fresh cucumbers into circles.
- With sausages make the same manipulations.
- Finely chop the greens.
- Mix the specified ingredients, pour kvass and brine.
- Add the quail eggs, cut into halves.
- And put the dish in the refrigerator for fifteen minutes.
Okroshka with horseradish
If the okroshka cooked according to the classic recipe seems too fresh, you should definitely try the option, which includes such components as:
- boiled potatoes;
- salted cucumbers;
- 200 grams of smoked sausage;
- a lot of favorite greens;
- 2 tablespoons of horseradish;
- 1.5 liters of kvass.
This okroshka is being prepared, like the usual one. Then sent for ten minutes in the refrigerator.
Okroshka on the Tan drink
The following option is very tasty. To execute it, you need:
- 2 boiled medium potatoes;
- 4 fresh cucumbers;
- a bunch of radishes;
- 200 grams of boiled sausage;
- 3 boiled chicken eggs;
- a bunch of favorite greens;
- one onion head;
- half a lemon;
- a pinch of salt;
- 1.5 liters of Tana.
If the reader does not like previous recipes for okroshka on kefir, kvass or tomato juice, he might be interested in this option. Cooking it is very simple:
- You just need to cut cubes of potatoes, cucumbers, radishes, sausages and eggs.
- Finely chop the greens and onions.
- Mix all ingredients, sprinkle with lemon juice and salt.
- To fill with "Tanom".
- And put in the refrigerator for twenty minutes.
Thick okroshka
If you slightly change the recipe for a classic okroshka with kvass, you will be able to please your loved ones with a very tasty dish.
What is needed:
- 3 potatoes;
- 200 grams of peeled shrimp;
- 4 fresh cucumbers;
- 3 chicken eggs;
- 0.5 kilograms of sour cream;
- a bunch of cilantro;
- a pinch of salt;
- 1.5 liters of kvass.
How to cook:
- Potatoes, cucumbers, eggs cut into cubes.
- Finely chopped greens.
- We connect all the components together, salt them a little.
- Fill with kvass and add sour cream and shrimp.
- Mix.
Each of the presented recipes will delight its taste with all households, as well as dear guests.