How to cook okroshka with chicken?

Okroshka is an original first dish thatIt was popular in Russia since the end of the 12th century. In the warm season, it is especially important because it is a cold soup. Okroshka is a mixture of chopped products (meat, fish, vegetables, herbs, spices), filled with pre-cooked dressing. When choosing components, everyone can take into account personal eating habits. For example, someone who watches his figure should like okroshka with chicken. You can cook it in different ways. Everything will depend on the chosen type of refueling. Typically, these soups are prepared on water, broth, kefir, whey, kvass, and even mineral water. In each of these options okroshka gets a completely new taste. As an example, we can consider only some of them.

Okroshka on mineral water

For making cold soup called"Okroshka" can use different vegetables in any combination. In addition, the recipe must include eggs. This ingredient gives the dish a special flavor. The choice of the type of meat and dressing depends on which products are most popular in a particular locality or in a single family. The best option for many is okroshka with chicken. And in order to make the dish itself more useful and nutritious, it can be prepared on mineral water. The work will require the following essential components:

300 grams of boiled chicken breast, 1 liter weakcarbonated mineral water, 3 boiled eggs, salt, 50 grams of radish, 150 grams of fresh cucumbers, 200 grams of sour cream, 350 grams of boiled potatoes, a bunch of greens, 4 grams of mustard, a little lemon (or vinegar) and a few feathers of green onions.

Cooking okroshka with chicken is very simple:

1. With chilled boiled meat to remove the skin (in the soup it is better not to put), and the rest cut into cubes of medium size.
2. Similarly, chop the potatoes and cucumbers.
3. Radish grate with a large grater.
4. Boiled eggs can be simply crushed with a fork.
5. Finely chop the greens.
6. All prepared ingredients put in the pan.
7. Add mustard mixture with sour cream.
8. Pour all mineral water. This component can control the desired thickness of the soup.
9. Salt and add lemon.

After that, okroshka can be eaten immediately. In some families, shredded products are laid out on plates, and each one adds a dressing in the right amount.

Okroshka broth

Particularly tasty is okroshka with chicken,cooked in broth. In this case, the soup retains the unique flavor of tender dietary meat. For this dish, it is advisable to use the following ratio of main ingredients:

3 liters of broth, 0.5 kilogram of chicken meat, ½liter of low-fat kefir, 100 grams of mayonnaise, a bunch of dill, 150 grams of sour cream, 300 grams of minced ham, salt, 4 cucumbers, a teaspoon of mustard, 2 bunches of green onions, 7 potatoes, 8 eggs and some citric acid.

The technology of cooking, in principle, remains the same:

1. If the chicken is fresh, then it must first be boiled for an hour. After that, the meat must be removed from the bone, and strain the broth and cool.
2. Finely chop the onion and dill.
3. Eggs with potatoes also boil, and then peel and cut into small cubes.
4. Similarly, crumble the ham.
5. Put the prepared products into the pan.
6. Add the rest of the ingredients.
7. Soup to send in the fridge.

For 1 hour okroshka time to brew well. After that, you can get it and pour it into plates.

Okroshka on serum

Dairy lovers can do a bitto experiment. They should definitely like okroshka cooked on whey with chicken. The recipe for this dish is very similar to all previous ones. For its preparation you will need the following set of products:

1 chicken fillet, salt, 100 grams of sour cream, 4 potatoes and as many fresh cucumbers, 6 eggs, 15 grams of mustard, 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise and fresh greens (dill, onion, parsley).

The process consists of several stages:

1. The first step is to boil the meat, eggs and potatoes.
2. Cucumbers cut into small cubes and put them in a deep bowl.
3. There also add peeled and chopped boiled eggs.
4. Potatoes for okroshka better cook in uniform. Then it must be cooled, cleaned and cut into larger cubes.
5. Put chopped greens in the bowl.
6. Grind boiled meat (without skin) and also send it to a bowl.
7. Thoroughly mix the prepared cutting.
8. Separately mix mayonnaise, sour cream and mustard.
9. Add the resulting mass to the main products and mix everything again.

10. To taste add a little salt.

11. Pour all the chilled whey and let the soup stand for a while.

This dish will have a special refreshing effect.

Okroshka on kefir

Some believe that the most delicious - okroshka onkefir with chicken. But on this account everyone has their own opinion. Nevertheless, in most cases, it is kefir that is used as a dressing for cooking this dish. In this case, the list of components will be as follows:

120 grams of chicken breast, 500 milliliters of kefir (low-fat), 2 potatoes, 1 cucumber, 2 large radishes, salt, 1 egg, 9 sprigs of fresh greens and a little ground pepper.

How to cook such okroshka:

1. First you need to boil the egg and potatoes. After cooling, the products should be cleaned and crumbled.
2. Breast also need to prepare. With her first thing you need to cut off all the fat. For such a soup is not needed. The remaining meat should be boiled until cooked.
3. Dice radish and cucumber into cubes (or circles).
4. Chilled meat to disassemble hands into pieces.
5. Greens randomly crumble.
6. Products collected in a deep container, salt and add a little pepper.
7. Constantly stirring with a spoon, slowly pour kefir.

The prepared dish should stand in the refrigerator for 20 minutes. During this time, products will have time to exchange tastes.

Okroshka on kvass

Traditionally in Russia for cooking okroshkaused kvass. True, it was not the product, which today is sold in any store. But even with ordinary bread kvass, the soup turns out just excellent. True, it is better to choose a product with a minimum sugar content or use a home-made drink in general. For work you will need:

300 grams of chicken fillet, 3 potatoes, 0.5 liters of kvass, salt, 1 cucumber, 4 eggs, and a little dill and green onions.

Okroshka on kvass with chicken is prepared as follows:

1. Boil meat, cool and then chop finely. In principle, fillets can be simply disassembled into individual fibers.
2. Potatoes with eggs must also be boiled first. This can be done in advance. Then the products need to be cleaned and crumbled into small cubes.
3. In the same way cut fresh cucumber.
4. Randomly chop the greens.
5. Products collected in one container, salt and mix well.
6. Cooked mass spread on plates and pour kvass.

It turns out an excellent cold soup with a pleasant aroma and a little intoxicating sourness. And small bubbles of kvass give an additional refreshing effect.

Energy value of the dish

Choosing a particular dish for your diet,you must first learn more about its energy value. This is especially true of those who fear to gain extra pounds. Calorie okroshka with chicken depends on the set of products from which it is prepared.

The type of refueling has little effect on this indicator.The energy value of 100 grams of hash with the addition of poultry meat does not exceed 60 kilocalories. Provided that a traditional recipe is used to make the soup. The number of main products in it is calculated so that the ratio of vegetables and meat is 1: 1. Nevertheless, the liquid component of this dish still has a certain value. For example, 100 grams of cold soup, filled with kvass, contains 52 kilocalories. This is quite a bit. With dairy products, the result will be different. So, okroshka with the addition of kefir already contains 55 kilocalories. In general, it is an ideal food for those who want to lose weight. With a minimum energy value, this dish contains a huge amount of macro and microelements necessary for the normal functioning of the whole organism.