Vegetable dishes are appropriate at any time of the year - they make meals varied, supply the body with vitamins, and reduce the intake of high-calorie dishes. Unfortunately, the average person is limited to an extremely boring assortment of vegetable dishes. Gosstandart - the simplest cabbage salad, vinaigrette and okroshka. It's all! Even such a wonderful dish as radish with kvass is forgotten. But it is very useful and has an original, albeit unusual, taste. So, in our opinion, it is time to restore traditions.
Radish with kvass: the simplest recipe
In addition to the ingredients indicated in the title, almost nothing will be needed. And it will take a few minutes to cook.
Rub the radish on a coarse grater and add. Add a spoonful of any vegetable oil to the plate, mix and fill with kvass. To enrich the taste, sprinkle a radish with kvass chopped onion feathers, and you can start dinner. Eating a dish follows with brown bread. Preferably - fried in a pan or dried in a toaster. Can be replaced with rye crackers.
A little more complicated: radish with kvass and potatoes
Here you have to try a little. Cook potatoes, three radishes. Potatoes can be treated differently. In some recipes, it is recommended to crush it in a kind of mashed potatoes, in others - finely chop. Pour kvass into the potatoes, add a potion of radish and herbs, add salt and proceed to take the sample. If the days are not lean, you can add sour cream to the plate.
There is a slightly more original version of the dish: potatoes are suggested to be fried in vegetable oil beforehand. People who have tasted such a dish respond very positively about it.
Okroshka in old Russian
Cook the potato until tender, better in uniform. Hard boiled eggs. Clean and cut products in the traditional way. We clean the radish, wash and chop the straws. Cut the greens as finely as possible. We mix all the ingredients right in the plates, fill with kvass and season with salt and sour cream.
Some lovers of hot okroshka do not seem too spicy. Especially if a green variety of radish was used. In this case, add grated horseradish. Just be careful with him. Especially if your stomach is not all right.
Another dressing option is to add vinegar with sugar diluted in it to the okroshka. How appropriate this addition is, decide for yourself. Many people in vinegar dishes are not very welcome. But others may find this proposal interesting.
Another variant
You can cook okroshka with radish on kvass, adding the ingredients that we used to see in the traditional version of this dish. Namely, fresh cucumbers and boiled sausage. In principle, the dish is prepared as usual, only black radish is added. Either grated, or scrolled through a meat grinder, to whom it seems more convenient and more beautiful.
Experienced Cooking Tips
Radish with kvass in any case has a specific smell. Therefore, it is recommended to cook immediately before use. If you decide to make a lot of okroshka with this root crop, do not add it immediately to other products. It is better to store the crushed radish separately, in a tightly closed container. For example, in a food container.
Some culinary experts suggest pouring a grated vegetable into a drink before making a radish with kvass and let it brew for about an hour. They say that the taste of the dish becomes richer, and the smell of the root crop becomes less pronounced. Of course, following this recommendation, you need to cook only in portions in order to eat cooked at a time.
As for kvass. Just say, the purchase is not good. Firstly, the drink contains preservatives, dyes and other chemicals. Radish with kvass of this kind is not too tasty. Natural root vegetables can react with “nutritional supplements”. The result is unpredictable, and the smell of a vegetable can become unbearable. It is better to tolerate a couple of days until homemade kvass, cooked in the old way, ripens.
Secondly, most store kvass is too sweet. Bitterness of radishes with sweeteners does not fit well. I do not want to make kvass on your own - look for a market where grandmothers sell it.
About the benefits of radish
The specific smell and original taste should not become an obstacle to the use of radish with kvass. The vegetable has a powerful anti-inflammatory effect and includes natural antibiotics - phytoncides. Its juice perfectly fights against diseases of the throat and makes immunity stronger, which will not be out of place during periods of seasonal epidemics.
The radish contains minerals that strengthen blood vessels, and from this point of view it is very interesting for the cores.
In the vegetable there is a mass of fiber that stimulates and improves digestion. In addition, it is recommended for dysbiosis, as it is an excellent breeding ground for colonies of beneficial bacteria. And even radish allows you to remove sand and small stones from the gallbladder.
Just do not abuse the vegetable in its pure form: it is quite aggressive and can cause stomach cramps. In this regard, radish with kvass is an ideal solution: the drink softens the sharpness of the root crop.