Hodgepodge seasoned kvass? Okroshka runs the kitchen

Finally arrived in May. Plus twenty-five degrees "overboard". Like and it's time for lunch, but not too much appetite. To be more precise, thirst tormented much stronger than hunger. Such is the dilemma. How to solve this problem? We should pay tribute ancestors who invented the dish is still our favorite. Okroshka! Only foreigners coming to us, wonder how it can be diluted with vegetable salad Coca-Cola?

"Strange people ... Russian eating cold soup" - cried the French, which was first brought to try the national cuisine! And are not we who did not eat hash - that does not live in either Russia or something in this life obviously missed.

Fleeing from hunger, thirst quenching, quick to prepare - it's all about hodgepodge. Title traditional Russian dishes comes from the verb "chop". Put simply, we take all the vegetables that are in the refrigerator, crumble them and pour kvas. However, no! It's not so simple. It turns out that not all products are "compatible" with each other, and the fact that only a seasoned hash kvas, a stereotype.

Traditional hash recipe is made from available this time of year products. Cut into small pieces the usual array of vegetables: boiled potatoes, turnips, carrots, cucumbers, chopped onions, dill, boiled eggs. All this is mixed and seasoned kvass, and then to taste, you can add sour cream or mustard. Okroshka also happens meat or fish, is added finely chopped boiled meat or fish to choose from. The main condition - the meat can be of various sorts, but it should not be bold. If the choice fell on the fish, then here fit boiled sturgeon, tench, perch and cod. As the most commonly used filling kvass. However, other liquid base: whey, beer, yogurt, cucumber pickle, diluted vinegar and even mineral water! The choice is wide enough, it all depends on your imagination! Of course, the easiest way not to bother and buy a brew in the store. However, in practice, the success of food for seventy percent dependent on kvass. Better, of course, that he was a bit sour, so the magazine is not an option. You can prepare this drink yourself. To do this, put it in cold water rye crackers, before pre-roasted in the oven (a quarter of the banks crackers to 5 liters of water). Then add 4-5 tablespoons of sugar, raisins and a little hop. After some time the bank is closed with gauze, put in a warm place, after stirring the contents of about once per day. Kvass will be ready in 3-5 days. To determine that the bread should settle on the same dno.Esli such procedures are presented to you with kvass complex, that is an unusual recipe for hash, originality is not charging. It's all about fruit! To prepare the crumble apples, radishes, cucumbers, add chopped onions, dill, salt and mustard, all this stir and fill with cold yogurt. For a taste you can add sour cream.

Interestingly enough, that what we now call okroshka actually relates entirely to other dishes. For example, the Uzbek cold soup "chalopa" - a prototype of our hash, seasoned with yogurt, and in many nations there is beer soup with bread. Whereas beet broth is prepared botvinya. Therefore, as is customary, every year we are adopting the tradition of our foreign friends in the preparation of cold soup. However, the main reason for modification of hash - it is our desire to do everything in a hurry instead of boiled meat sausage to use, instead of grated radish put chopped into small pieces, instead of kvass fill lettuce mineral water. Of course, the experiment is not forbidden. Especially that "the taste and color markers are different ..."!

Article author: Lily