On a hot summer day, you want to refresh yourself with something cold, at the same time satisfying and nutritious. Cold cucumber soup is a great solution that will saturate and cool. Step-by-step recipe with a photo. Video recipe.
This interesting and new recipe diversifies the traditional summer menu. Instead of the usual green borscht, prepare cold cucumber soup! It is designed specifically for summer, when you want to eat something tasty, light and healthy. It is an elegant dish prepared in minutes from the simplest ingredients and conveys all the flavor of a refreshing summer. If you've never tasted cucumber soup before, be sure to do it. After all, cucumbers are suitable not only for pickling or for salad. With them, no less wonderful first cold dishes are obtained.
Such a dish can be safely called a colleague of Russian okroshka or Spanish gazpacho. Only here the vegetable set is richer, which makes the taste and result of the soup more interesting. For the base of the soup, yogurt, yogurt, kefir, chicken broth, kvass, mineral water or ordinary boiled cold water are suitable. This soup must include fresh cucumbers and a lot of greens. It is perfect for the summer heat. In addition, it perfectly saturates and refreshes, since you don't even need to turn on the stove to prepare it.
See also how to make soup with chicken stomachs and fried pickles.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 165 kcal.
- Servings Per Container - 5-6
- Cooking time - 30 minutes for slicing food, plus time for boiling and cooling eggs, potatoes, chicken leg and broth
Ingredients:
- Boiled potatoes in their uniforms - 2 pcs.
- Salt - 1 tsp or to taste
- Fresh cucumbers - 4 pcs.
- Citric acid - 1 tsp or to taste
- Hard boiled eggs - 3 pcs.
- Green onions - bunch
- Boiled chicken leg - 1 pc.
- Sour cream - 300 ml
- Chilled chicken broth - 2.5 l
- Mustard - 1 tablespoon
Step by step preparation of cold cucumber soup, recipe with photo:
1. Peel the potatoes and cut them into medium-sized cubes, like an Olivier salad.
2. Peel and cut the eggs to the same size as the potatoes.
3. Wash the cucumbers, dry with a paper towel, cut off the ends and cut like the previous products.
4. Separate the meat of the chicken leg from the bones and cut into small pieces or tear along the fibers.
5. Wash green onions, dry and chop finely.
6. Place all prepared food in a large saucepan.
7. Add sour cream with mustard to the food. If desired, sour cream can be replaced with mayonnaise.
8. Pour the chilled chicken broth over the food, which is filtered beforehand to remove small bones and spices. How to cook chicken broth correctly, you will read in a step-by-step recipe with a photo on the pages of the site, using the search bar.
9. Stir the food, season with salt and citric acid. Taste the cold cucumber soup and tweak it if necessary to bring it to your liking. Send the dish to the refrigerator to cool for 1 hour and serve it to the table.
See also the video recipe on how to make cold cucumber soup.