What's ideal for lunch in the summer heat? Refreshing okroshka with lemon water! How is this miracle prepared? Yes, very simple! Prepared okroshka based on water and lemon juice acquires a pleasant taste with a slight sourness. An amazingly delicious dish! During the hot summer period, not only our body, but also our stomach wants coolness. Cold, temptingly appetizing and incredibly tasty okroshka with lemon is prepared very quickly, and eaten even faster. I assure you: the spicy taste of okroshka will appeal to everyone. Cook with love: and your okroshka will be the most delicious!
Ingredients:
- potatoes - 3 pieces;
- egg - 4 pieces;
- cucumber - 1-2 pieces;
- tomato - 1-2 pieces;
- sausage (or boiled chicken fillet) - 200 grams;
- green onions - 1 bunch;
- dill - 0.5 bunch;
- sour cream - 200 grams;
- water - 2 liters;
- salt - 1 teaspoon.
- lemon - 1.5 pieces.
Refreshing okroshka with lemon water. Step by step recipe
- To prepare a refreshing okroshka in lemon water, boil the potatoes in their skins (I used medium-sized potatoes).
- Peel the cooled potatoes and cut them into small cubes.
- We also cut the fresh cucumber into small cubes.
- Cut the sausage (boiled meat can be used instead of sausage) like potatoes and cucumber. I prepared okroshka with lemon water according to this recipe and with meat. It turns out so amazingly delicious that you just want to eat it and eat it.
- We also cut juicy, well-ripe tomatoes into small cubes.
- Boil the eggs in salted water, cool and peel. Cut the peeled eggs into cubes. It is very good to use homemade eggs for okroshka.
- Wash the green onions thoroughly and chop finely.
- We also finely chop the fresh dill.
- Place all prepared foods into a deep pan: potatoes, cucumbers, eggs, tomatoes, sausage, green onions and green dill.
- Squeeze the juice out of the lemons (to make lemon water for okroshka, I used one and a half lemons).
- Add lemon juice to cold boiled water and stir well.
- Salt the prepared vegetables in the pan and mix well.
- Pour lemon water over the vegetables in the pan so that the water covers the salad.
- Add sour cream to the okroshka and mix everything thoroughly again.
- Okroshka with lemon water is ready: you can serve it.
- A refreshing dish looks much more beautiful and appetizing when all the ingredients in the okroshka are cut into the same shape.
Okroshka is very tasty, refreshing and in no way inferior to okroshka made with kefir or kvass, but at the same time it is more accessible. As you have already seen, making lemon water for okroshka is quite simple. A plate of delicious okroshka will bring you a lot of positive emotions and quench your thirst on a hot summer day. Try to prepare cold okroshka according to my step-by-step recipe at least once: and such a dish will become a frequent guest in your kitchen. “I Love to Cook” and I wish you a pleasant appetite and good mood. Come back often: I have prepared many more video recipes for delicious dishes for you.
Citric acid is in the arsenal of any housewife. It is added to dough, marinades, compotes. This is a great alternative to vinegar when you need to acidify a dish without the vinegar smell.
Housewives often add citric acid to okroshka. When okroshka was made with kvass, there was no need to acidify it. But recently it has become fashionable to make okroshka with mayonnaise, kefir, and sour cream. When these ingredients are diluted with water, the okroshka turns out to be fresh. This is where citric acid comes to the rescue.
Subtleties of cooking
- The water for okroshka needs to be boiled in advance and then cooled. Those housewives who use raw water for okroshka act short-sightedly, believing that citric acid will kill microbes. Raw water mixed with fresh cucumbers can cause stomach upset. And okroshka made from raw water is stored much worse.
- In order not to overdo it with citric acid, it should be diluted in a small amount of boiled water and then added to the dish at the very end of cooking. All ingredients at that time must be mixed together and combined with liquid - water mixed with mayonnaise or sour cream.
- Citric acid can be diluted in the full volume of water, adding enough of it so that the water acquires a pleasant sour taste. After this, the chopped vegetables are diluted with water in the same way as they do with kvass.
- Okroshka with citric acid is prepared according to the standard procedure. Vegetables and other products should be cut into equal pieces: cubes, strips or slices. Then the okroshka will look more appetizing, and the ingredients will combine better with each other.
Okroshka in water with citric acid: with mayonnaise and sausage
Ingredients:
- potatoes – 3 pcs.;
- eggs – 3 pcs.;
- fresh cucumbers – 3 pcs.;
- boiled sausage without fat – 200 g;
- green onions - a few feathers;
- dill greens - a thin bunch;
- mayonnaise – 150 g;
- water – 1 l;
- salt - to taste;
- citric acid - to taste.
Cooking method
- Boil and cool the water in advance. Dilute citric acid in it to taste.
- Boil the potatoes, cool, cut into small cubes.
- Hard-boil the eggs, cool, peel, and chop with a fork or knife.
- Cut the sausage into small cubes. Instead of sausage, you can use sausages - the taste of okroshka will not change.
- Wash the cucumbers and cut into small cubes. You can also grate them on a medium grater, then the liquid in the okroshka will acquire a richer taste.
- Chop the greens and onions.
- Place all ingredients in a saucepan and add mayonnaise. Toss as you would with a salad. Taste for salt, as its amount directly depends on the taste of the mayonnaise used. Dilute the vegetables with acidified water to the desired thickness. If necessary, add a little more salt or citric acid.
- Let the okroshka brew in the water, putting it in the refrigerator for half an hour, then pour into plates and serve.
Video recipe for the occasion:
Okroshka in water with citric acid: with radish and meat
Ingredients:
- potatoes – 3 pcs.;
- medium green radish – 1 pc.;
- boiled meat (beef) – 300 g;
- dill greens - a thin bunch;
- green onions - a few feathers;
- sour cream – 200 g;
- water – 1 l;
- salt - to taste;
- citric acid - to taste;
- Ground black pepper - a pinch.
Cooking method
- Boil water and cool. Dilute citric acid in it.
- Boil the potatoes, cool, cut into cubes.
- Boil lean meat, cool in broth, then cut into strips.
- Peel the radish, wash it, grate it on a medium grater.
- Finely chop the greens and onions.
- Place all products in a saucepan, combine with sour cream, add pepper and salt, stir. Pour in acidified water and stir again. Place the okroshka in the refrigerator for half an hour to cool and set. Determine whether there is enough salt and citric acid.
- Pour okroshka into plates and serve.
Note to the hostess
You can add meat and sausages to okroshka with citric acid or cook it with just vegetables.
Step-by-step photos of the recipe 1. We love the most ordinary classic okroshka. Everyone always throws in the approximate amount of ingredients, so to speak, by eye, I weighed my ingredients so that you can get exactly the same okroshka as mine :)
So, we go to the sea and catch fish :))) And we go to the garden and dig up young potatoes, to make cold soup you need to carry out 3 hot procedures :)))) we don’t peel the potatoes, but give them a good scrub with a brush and let them cook, salt them after boiling. 
2. On the way from the garden, we go into the chicken coop and take 4 fresh eggs, set them to boil
3. And, of course, there)))) we take the chicken breast, set it to cook, salt it with delicious salt and spices “7 courses” after boiling. 
4. Finely chop the greens, sprinkle with a pinch of salt and grind a little. In okroshka I only like green onions and dill; the other herbs overwhelm the whole taste, in my opinion. 
5. My mother always grates 1 piece of each ingredient, I just chop the cucumbers very, very finely. 
6. and radishes
7. Finely chop the egg whites and grate all the yolks on a fine grater. 
8. Chicken fillet
9. And potatoes... 
10. It is important to first add sour cream and mix a little with the food, and not vice versa water, then sour cream, in this case the sour cream may float in the water in flakes. 
11. Squeeze lemon juice, my granddaughter helped me do this, he really likes squeezing juice from citrus fruits :))) 
12. A juicer will always produce more than your hands.
13. Add filtered very cold water, as much as needed so that the soup is not too thick, but not runny either. Salt, add sugar and let stand for a while. 
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Ingredients Onions and dill 50 grams Fresh cucumber 200 grams Radishes 100 grams Boiled chicken fillet 130 grams 4 boiled eggs Boiled young potatoes 400 grams Sour cream 20% 400 grams Chilled filtered water 1.5-2 liters 1.5 lemon Sugar 1 tbsp. l. without verhasol 1 tbsp. l. without top pinch for greens