Holodnik – a dish of Belarusian cuisine. It is cold summer soup similar to the Russian okroshka, but it has an essential difference. The holodnik surely with beet is preparing that gives him beautiful saturated color, and it is filled in with kefir.
It is required to you
- For a holodnik with a tops of vegetable:
- 500 g of young beet with a tops of vegetable;
- kefir liter;
- 2 fresh cucumbers;
- 75 g of green onions;
- 2 eggs;
- 2 tablespoons of sour cream;
- sugar teaspoon.
- For a holodnik with lemon juice:
- 2-3 beets;
- 2 large cucumbers;
- 5 liters kefir;
- average head of onions;
- small bunch of green onions;
- 2 eggs;
- 4 tablespoons of fat sour cream;
- fennel;
- lemon juice;
- sugar;
- For a holodnik with ham:
- one large beet;
- 4 eggs;
- 6 pieces of the average size of potatoes;
- 4 fresh cucumbers;
- 300 g of ham (smoked meat or sausage);
- kefir;
- unsalted carbonated mineral water;
- green onions;
- fennel;
- table horse-radish;
Instruction
1. Holodnik with ботвойХорошо wash a baking plate with flowing water young beet together with a tops of vegetable. Then cut off a tops of vegetable and clean beet. Put beet in a pan, fill in with water and put on a plate to cook. Minutes for ten until ready put a tops of vegetable in a pan. When beet cooks, cast away it together with a tops of vegetable on a colander and let's water flow down. Small cut beet with a tops of vegetable and shift in a clean pan.
2. Cook eggs, clean and cut into cubes. Rub fresh cucumbers on a grater or cut with thin straws. Wash up, dry and cut green onions. Put everything in a pan to beet. Add sour cream and sugar, mix and fill in with kefir. Put in the fridge to be cooled. Before giving on a table strew the parsley which is small cut by greens and fennel.
3. Holodnik with lemon to a sokompomoyta also boil beet, then clean, grate, shift in deep ware and fill in with cold boiled water so that it covered a root crop. Clean onions and cut as it is possible more small. Cucumbers, fennel and green onions, wash up and dry. Grate cucumbers, and crush fennel with green onions a knife. Put everything to beet and fill in with kefir. Add sugar, salt and fill a holodnik with the juice which is squeezed out of a lemon. Separately serve sour cream.
4. Holodnik with a vetchinoypomoyta also boil beet and potatoes. Then clean and cut small into cubes. Cook hard boiled eggs, clean and small cut. Wash cucumbers and fennel and dry. Rub cucumbers on a large grater, and small cut fennel. Cut ham or smoked meat thin straws.
5. Shift all ingredients in a deep bowl or a pan, carefully mix, cover ware and put in the fridge. Before giving spread out the prepared ingredients of a holodnik on plates, fill in with kefir and the cooled mineral water (in a proportion 1:1), salt and fill with table horse-radish to taste.