If you like borscht in the warm season, then on hot summer days you will definitely like cold beetroot on kefir. It is not difficult to prepare and does not take much time to cook, at the same time it will saturate and delight with its taste.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
Beetroot, cold beetroot, beet borscht is perhaps the most popular first dish in our country. Hot, it nourishes and warms remarkably in the winter season, and in the summer it cools and quenches thirst. Each country uses its own ingredients for beetroot, but beet broth always remains unchanged. Some recipes also add kvass, cucumber pickle, natural yogurt, and today I suggest using kefir. This dish is prepared as a vegetarian light borscht only from vegetables or boiled on meat. In this case, we will use smoked chicken breast. Sometimes eggs or seafood, sour cream or mayonnaise are put in the dish. But this is always an amazingly tasty dish that you want more and more.
The recipe for today's summer cold borscht is made in a completely new way. The dish will not only saturate, but also charge with strength and good mood. It will perfectly refresh in the heat and bring the feeling of lightness to the stomach, which is so lacking in hot weather. To prepare a meal, it is necessary to boil eggs, potatoes and smoked chicken breast in advance. If you want to diversify your diet with refreshing and healthy dishes, take note of this recipe.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 58 kcal.
- Servings - 6
- Cooking time - 30 minutes for slicing food, plus time for cooking ingredients
Ingredients:
- Beet broth with one boiled beet - 2 l
- Kefir - 1 l
- Potatoes - 4 pcs.
- Cucumbers - 4 pcs.
- Eggs - 5 pcs.
- Smoked chicken breast - 2 pcs.
- Green onions - 2 bunches
- Mustard - 1 tsp
- Citric acid - 1 tsp
- Salt - 1.5 tsp
Step-by-step cooking of beetroot on kefir with smoked breast:
1. Wash the smoked chicken breast, cover with water and place on the stove to cook. Although it may not be cooked. Do this at will. Do not pour out the smoked broth. Use it to cook soup, or if you don't have enough liquid for the beetroot, you can add broth.
2. After that, cool the chicken meat and cut into small cubes.
3. Pre-boil the potatoes in a peel until tender. Then cool, peel and cut into cubes.
4. Pour the eggs with cold water and boil them hard for about 8 minutes after boiling. Dip them in a saucepan of ice water and cool. Peel and cut into cubes.
5. Wash the cucumbers, dry with a paper towel and cut into cubes, like the previous products.
6. Rinse green onions, dry and chop.
7. Put all the ingredients in a saucepan and add the boiled beets with citric acid.
8. Pour in cold beetroot broth.
How to cook beet broth? Peel the beets, cut into cubes, put in a saucepan and cover with water. Add 1 tsp. vinegar, citric acid, or lemon juice. Acid is necessary for the beets to retain their rich burgundy color during cooking. Boil the beets for about 40 minutes until tender. Cool the broth and apply to the beetroot.
9. Add kefir.
10. If there is not enough liquid, then add smoked broth to the beetroot, which strain through a fine sieve.
11. Season the dish with salt, stir well and chill in the refrigerator for half an hour before serving.
See also a video recipe on how to cook beetroot on kefir.
