Okroshka

Okroshka

Okroshka is a cold soup tradishionally attributed to Russian and Ukrainian cuisines. The name probably originates from "kroshit'" which means to chop or break into small pieces. Okroshka is prepared on the base of kvass – russian bread drink. Yet, kefir, can be used as well.

Ingredients:

Preparation

Prepare ingredients: boil potatoes for salad in advance, prepare hard boiled eggs, drain liquid from peas.

Skin potatoes and dice them, put to the big cooking pot.

Dice sausage (boiled vial or beef or even ham), add diced meat to the pot.

Add drained sweet peas to the pot.

Dice cucumber and add it to the cooking pot, if cucumber is ripe you can remove seeds and skin it.

Dice hard boiled eggs.

Cut radish of tails, rinse them with cold water and slice, put to the cooking pot

Add chopped fresh dill and green onion, salt, black pepper and sour cream.

Mix everything and add about half of bread kvass and let Okroshka to settle before serving.

Add more kvass to Okroshka right before serving. Serve Okroshka cooled.

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