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Beetroot cold soup with kefir
In summer, we recommend making beetroot cold soup with kefir and water. Cold soups are a hit during lunch on hot days, and fortunately, the variety of these dishes is quite large: okroshka with whey, beetroot soup with ayran, Latvian auksta zupa and cherry hideg meggyleves in Hungary. This list can go on for a long time. Our recipe for cold soup with kefir is simplified by using pickled beetroot, so there is no need to cook it additionally. Moreover, the marinade itself is also used in the dish.
Preparation time: 15 minutes.
Caloric content: 40 kcal per 100 grams of the dish.
Ingredients
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- pickled beetroot – 150 g;
- kefir – 300 ml;
- water – 220 ml;
- cucumber – 1 pc;
- chicken egg – 1 pc;
- garlic – 1 clove;
- green onion feathers – 5 pcs;
- dill – 4 sprigs;
- sour cream – optional.
Preparation
- Prepare the necessary ingredients for making beetroot cold soup with kefir. Rinse and dry the greens. Boil the egg hard and peel it. Remove the skin from the garlic clove.
- Grate the beetroot on a vegetable grater.
- Grate the cucumber on a vegetable grater, add it to the beetroot.
- Don’t put the grater away – you still need to grate the egg. Add it to the grated vegetables too.
- Finely chop the green onion.
- Add the chopped onion to the bowl where the vegetables and egg are already placed.
- Chop the dill. It can be torn by hand.
- Add the dill to the same bowl.
- Cut the garlic into small cubes.
- Add the garlic to the bowl with the other ingredients.
- Slightly salt, mix everything together.
- At this stage, we need the marinade left from the pickled beetroot. Pour it into the other ingredients.
- Following the marinade, pour in the kefir. Mix it.
- The final touches – add water, mix. If the cold soup is thick enough, then add a little more water.
- Taste it. It’s possible that the cold soup needs a little more salt. Beetroot cold soup with kefir is ready.
Optionally, you can add a little sour cream.
We are sure that you will enjoy this cold soup with kefir and water, and you will prepare it often in hot weather.
