Nothing helps out in the summer heat like recipes for cold soups. Fortunately, there are a great many options for how to cook cold soups, and therefore you can cook them at least every day.
The most famous and delicious dishes: Spanish gazpacho, Russian okroshka and beetroot, Belarusian cold brew, Swedish broth on rosehip, Thai chowder on coconut milk. Some of them are thick enough in their consistency, “a spoon is worth it”, while others resemble smoothies.
Recipes for cold soups can be divided into two main types:
– Which were prepared initially without heat treatment – raw vegetables, seasonings were crushed, poured, mixed. It is recommended to store them in the refrigerator for no more than a day.
– Which were first boiled, then cooled. If you cook on meat, fish or mushroom broth, then all the ingredients are cooked together. You can also boil some products, and use the rest fresh. Stored longer.
Such food is served to the table in ordinary plates or bowls. You can also pour it into a glass or mug. Aerobatics – to prepare an ice bowl is when two containers of different sizes are fixed, water is poured between them and all this is sent to the freezer. Then carefully separate the dishes from the frozen ice. It looks very impressive.
By reading the recipes below, you will learn how to properly prepare cold soups that both saturate and quench thirst, and refresh, and even invigorate. The preparation of such dishes is usually an extremely simple procedure, simple even for beginners (especially if there is a clear recipe with step—by-step photos).
The recipe for cooking okroshka from childhood, when in the summer I was sent to my grandmother in the village. Rustic cuisine is simple, without frills, but it has such pleasant nuances that you will not find in any restaurant.
The favorite summer cold soup in our country is okroshka! And I offer you my own version of okroshka with seafood. It’s much easier for those who count calories, I hope it will be useful to you!
Hot days are coming soon. The summer and cold okroshka will finally begin. Each family has its own favorite recipe for okroshka. I tried okroshka on kvass and whey… But I found his perfect formula. If you’re interested, go ahead and tell us about the nuances.
