Botwin - options summer soup

Today this summer soup less popular than the hash, and it was the most common and among the peasants, and among members of the high classes. Its preparation takes a little more time compared to the hash, but if you do decide to make beet soup, you will not be disappointed - this is a very original, delicious and refreshing dish.

In the 19th century Botwin was the most common summer soup in our country, ate her absolutely everyone from peasants to aristocrats. Now this cold soup is cooked not so often, and that is why to make beet soup, definitely, worth - a pleasant surprise home will be guaranteed.

The beet soup was very fond of Alexander I, I. A. Krylov, A. S. Pushkin.

Botwin is a cold summer soup, the main ingredients of which in the original version are young beets and tops, kvass, sorrel, nettle, green onions, herbs and gardening, ice and red fish. Classic beet soup consists of three parts: the vegetable soup, boiled salmon and filed separately finely chopped ice. That is traditionally the beet soup was served to one person in three plates in each laid one of the three parts of the soup.

Today there are many lightweight options making batini - without fish and ice, but if you decide to make this soup on the traditional recipe, you will be able to fully appreciate the beauty of this amazing food.

Interestingly, the name of the soup "Botwin" comes from the word "Botel", in the ancient language referring to "fat".

How to cook a classic beet soup

You will need: 1 liter of bread kvass, 500 g fish red (SIG/salmon/trout/salmon/sturgeon - boiled or salted), 250 ml okroshka kvass, 3 young beet with leaves, 1.5-2 cups of boiled sorrel, 1 Cup of boiled nettles, 1,1.5 cucumber fresh ? lemon ? Cup chopped green onions, 1-2 tbsp. of grated horseradish, 1,5 tbsp chopped dill, 1 tsp. mustard, salt and sugar.

How to cook traditional beet soup. Cut off the tops from the beets separately boil the beets and tops until soft. Sorrel boil no more than 3 minutes, rinse and be good with boiling water nettles, just put in a colander. Very finely chopped parsley. Beets finely chop and add it to the greens, finely chopped green onions to mix with dill and salt. Two kinds of kvass to connect with lemon to cut the zest, grate it and mix with the sugar, add the mustard, lemon juice, horseradish, a small amount of brew, stir, pour the remaining brew. Combine all the chopped vegetables and herbs with leavened mixture, add the cucumber, cut it in small cubes, put into the refrigerator for 15-20 minutes Cut the fish into pieces 50 g, drop into boiling salted water, add the fennel, onion, Bay leaf and black pepper, boil for 10 min, if the fish is raw and 2-3 min if it is salted, smoked or salted. Feeding beet soup into three bowls: one kvasnyi-vegetable mixture, the second fish, the third ice.

Botwin may be filed, or as the first or as liquid refreshment before the second dish. Fish eat with a fork in a plate with ice and vegetable soup put the spoon on the ice is put in vegetable soup periodically.

When we talk about the classic version of Botvina, it is worth considering a number of nuances, from which strongly depends on the final taste of the dish:

• Brew for batini need to choose to complement brackish or freshwater fish taste, without interrupting him, that is the most suitable - not overly sweet and not too sour. To use best dark bread kvass, which is mixed with a third or less of the white okroshka kvass.
• It is believed that best results beet soup prepared from several species of red fish and crayfish, which you can substitute shrimp or crabs.
• Use sorrel in this beet soup is sure - this ingredient gives the soup the desired acidity.
• In the kvass to Botvina be sure to add the lemon juice and grated horseradish - they give the dish a desired aroma and pungency.
• A little try, you can impress family and loved ones in a truly delicious summer soup, but if you want to try still more simple version of the soup, or there is no possibility to find all the necessary ingredients, you can prepare it in the following recipes. Botwin prepared for such recipes, will be called "incomplete".

The classic recipe simplified batini with spinach and fish

You will need: 1.5 liters of kvass acid, 500 g of spinach and salmon, 5 pieces of black peppercorns, cucumber and Bay leaf, 3 small beets, 2 onions, 1/2 lemon, green onion, sugar, salt.

How to make a simplified beet soup. Boil the fish in salted water (if it is raw or unsalted water (if salted), adding Laurel, onion and peppercorn, then get it out of the broth and allow to cool. Pour the spinach with cold water (it should completely cover), boil half an hour before settling to the bottom, put in a colander, then wipe. Boil until cooked beets and cut it into cubes, cucumber peel and chop as well to do the same with the second onion, chopped dill. Put the onions and spinach in large bowl, add salt, sprinkle with sugar, RUB with a spoon, add the cucumber, beets, dill, lemon (finely chopped), add sour kvass, season to taste with salt and sugar. Cool the soup, serve separately in bowls of vegetable soup and fish pieces.

Prescription fast batini

You will need: 1.5 liters of kvass, 300 g of boiled fish, 300-400 g sorrel and nettle young, 2-3 tbsp. vegetable oil, 1 cucumber, horseradish, dill, green onions, sugar, salt.

How to cook quick beet soup. Lower washed nettles in boiling water, in a separate pan with the lid to extinguish the sorrel, then the greens to wipe. Put the puree of herbs in a saucepan, add sugar, salt, pour kvass, sliced into cubes cucumber, finely chopped dill and green onions. When serving into bowls add pieces of cooked fish and grated horseradish.

An even more simplified version: use only kvass, nettles, spinach, sorrel, sugar and salt - leafy greens boiled and cleaned, filled with kvass, dressed with sugar and salt, when serving, put a cucumber cubes, chopped herbs and grated horseradish.

One of the very interesting and appropriate modern Housewives options batini - with shrimp, which is easy to find in any supermarket.

The recipe batini with shrimp

You will need: 1-1,5 liters of kvass, 200-300 grams of peeled shrimp, 200 g of sorrel and spinach, 50-100 grams of green onions, 1-2 cucumber, sugar, salt.

How to make beet soup with shrimp. Shrimp boil chop. Cook the sorrel and spinach until tender, RUB them, salt puree, season it with sugar, pour kvass. Put in the soup cucumber strips, chopped green onions and shrimp, served chilled or with crushed ice.

Botwin is a great alternative to the hash, try to cook this delicious and healthy soup in the heat, and the praise of the home will be provided!