Radish with kvass: original, traditional, he althy

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Vegetable dishes are appropriate at any time of the year - they make meals varied, supply the body with vitamins, reduce the consumption of high-calorie foods. 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 has been forgotten. But it is very useful and has an original, albeit unusual, taste. So, in our opinion, it's time to restore traditions.

Radish with kvass: the simplest recipe

Besides the ingredients listed in the title, almost nothing is needed. And it only takes minutes to prepare.

Grate the radish on a coarse grater and add it. Add a spoonful of any vegetable oil to the plate, mix and pour kvass. To enrich the tastesprinkle the radish with kvass with chopped onion feathers, and you can start dinner. There should be a dish with black bread. Preferably fried in a pan or dried in a toaster. Can be replaced with rye croutons.

A little more difficult: radish with kvass and potatoes

Here you have to try a little. We boil potatoes, three radishes. You can do different things with potatoes. In some recipes, it is recommended to crush it into a kind of mashed potatoes, in others - finely chop. Pour kvass into potatoes, flavor the soup with radish and herbs, add some s alt and proceed to sampling. If the days are not fast, you can add sour cream to the plate.

There is a slightly more original version of the dish: it is proposed to pre-fry the potatoes in vegetable oil. People who have tried this dish are very positive about it.

Okroshka in Old Russian

Cook potatoes until cooked, better in their uniforms. Boil eggs hard boiled. Products are cleaned and cut in the traditional way. We clean the radish, wash it and chop it into strips. Cut greens as finely as possible. We mix all the ingredients directly in the plates, pour kvass and season with s alt and sour cream.

Some fans of spicy okroshka seem not too spicy. Especially if a green variety of radish was used. In this case, you can 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. To what extent such an addition is appropriate, decide for yourself. Many people do not like vinegar in their dishes. But others may find such an offer interesting.

Another option

You can cook okroshka with radish on kvass by 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 rubbed or rolled through a meat grinder, whichever seems more convenient and beautiful.

Advice from experienced chefs

Radish with kvass in any version has a specific smell. Therefore, it is recommended to prepare immediately before use. If you decide to make a lot of okroshka with this root crop, do not add it immediately to the rest of the products. It is better to store chopped radish separately, in a tightly closed container. For example, in a food container.

Some chefs suggest that before cooking radish with kvass, pour the grated vegetable into the drink and leave it to infuse for about an hour. They say that this way the taste of the dish becomes richer, and the smell of the root crop is less pronounced. Of course, following this recommendation, you only need to cook in portions in order to eat cooked at one time.

As for kvass. Let's just say that the purchase is not good. Firstly, the drink contains preservatives, dyes and other chemicals. Radish with kvass of this kind is not very tasty. The natural substances of the root crop can react with "food additives". The result is unpredictable, and the smell of the vegetable can become unbearable. It is betterwait a couple of days until the homemade kvass, prepared in the old fashioned way, ripens.

Secondly, most store-bought kvass are too sweet. The bitterness of radish with sweeteners is not combined well. If you don’t want to make kvass yourself, look for a market where grandmothers sell it.

On 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 strengthens the immune system, 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 cores.

The vegetable has a lot of fiber that stimulates and improves digestion. In addition, it is recommended for dysbacteriosis, as it is an excellent nutrient medium for colonies of beneficial bacteria. And radish also helps 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 the perfect solution: the drink softens the sharpness of the root crop.