Okroshka is very popular, its recipes the huge set is known. This cold dish, depending on the choice of ingredients, can be both light and refreshing, and quite nourishing and high-calorie. The nutritional value of a portion depends on the recipe of okroshka.
Okroshka - an ideal dish for those who keep to a diet
It is known that okroshka is capable not only it is good to satisfy hunger and thirst in a summer heat, but also to enrich an organism with vitamins and various minerals. One of important advantages of this dish is also that quite low-calorie can cook soup. How many calories the portion will contain - depends only on what products will be its part.
Even having removed several ingredients from the recipe, you shouldn't be afraid for consistence of a dish - it is possible to fill the missing volume of a thick by means of a fresh vegetables and greens.
As the main component usually use kvass, kefir or serum (according to nutritionists, in this case okroshka becomes especially useful). All other ingredients depend only on opportunities and flavoring addictions of the hostess: it can be a fresh or boiled vegetables, meat, chicken or fish. Okroshka because its recipe allows a set of various variations, recommend to those who want to get rid of excess weight, eating at the same time "tasty and it is useful".
If to speak about vegetable okroshka which part boiled potatoes and carrots, boiled egg, fresh greens, kvass, kefir or serum, sour cream are then the caloric content of one portion is from 60 to 100 Kcal. If there is a wish to reduce this indicator, it is possible to use fat-free sour cream or in general - to try to do without it. Boiled potatoes and egg can also be replaced with less high-calorie vegetables. Having added fresh cucumbers and a garden radish to okroshka, the taste of a dish will be enriched, and caloric content - will decrease.
How many can be offered for the sake of caloric content, without having spoiled taste of okroshka?
Kvass if it is bought in shop, can also be different in caloric content, affecting the general nutritious structure of a ready-to-eat meal. It is possible to try to cook kvass, having made low-calorie, but very tasty drink in which there will be no preservatives, dyes and other not most useful products. If meat, chicken, sausage or sausages, caloric content respectively are added to okroshka increases. It is possible to look at nutrition value of ready-made products on packing and by simple calculations, depending on the weight of the added products to calculate the caloric content of a portion of ready okroshka. On average, each 100 g of meat products increase nutrition value by 150-200 Kcal. The caloric content of ready okroshka is also influenced by use of sauces - someone doesn't imagine this soup without sour cream, and others very much love it with mayonnaise. Caloric content of ready sauces can be learned on packing of a product, and the nutrition value of 100 g of sour cream is from 110-120 to 250 Kcal, depending on fat content.
Those who wants to refrain from consumption of mayonnaise can advise to stir a yolk in a small amount of liquid from okroshka, to add mustard to taste then to add ready mix to a plate.
To lower the caloric content of ready okroshka to fans is it with sauce it is possible to recommend to try to replace sour cream with low-fat kefir or a natural yoghourt - in 100 g of these products only 25-60 Kcal contain.