Okroshka
Cold chopped-salad soup in fizzy kvass
Think of it as: Like a potato salad floating in sour, bready soda
Soup made with a fizzy drink. Summer logic.
What does it taste like?
Sweet-sour and lightly fizzy, with salty ham and fresh dill.
SweetSpicySourSaltyFunkSmellTextureCrunchy and ice-cold
What is it?
Chopped cucumber, potato, boiled egg and ham topped up with cold kvass, a lightly fizzy fermented rye drink, or kefir. It's Russia's go-to summer soup.Source: Wikipedia
How locals eat it
Eaten for lunch on hot days. People argue over kvass versus kefir.
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Ingredients
- 1 cucumber
- 2 boiled potatoes
- 2 boiled eggs
- 100 g ham or cooked meat
- 4 radishes
- Dill and spring onion
- 600 ml kvass
- 2 tbsp sour cream
Can't find it? No kvass? Use kefir thinned with sparkling water.
How to make it (one way)
- Dice the potato, egg, ham, cucumber and radish
- Chop the dill and spring onion
- Put everything in a bowl and season lightly with salt
- Pour over chilled kvass
- Top with sour cream and serve cold
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