Cold soups. Summer Soup Recipes

Most often cold soups are prepared in the hot season. This fact is due to the fact that they are made using fresh vegetables and greens. In addition, cold soups are well refreshed, not heavy for the stomach and are cooked very quickly.

Make delicious okroshka on kefir

Okroshka on kefir is a kind of cold soup. To make such a dish, it will take a small amount of time, but quite a lot of inexpensive ingredients.

So, for cooking okroshki we need:

• Potatoes are small - 5 pcs .;
• 2 medium-sized cucumbers;
• Radish fresh large - 5 pcs .;
• Green onions - a small bundle;
• Fresh dill - a large bunch;
• Sausage boiled - about 250 g;
• Eggs boiled - 4 pcs .;
• Kefir of medium fat content - about 600 ml;
• Pepper black and salt - add to the ready-made dish to taste;
• Water is ordinary or mineral, but without gas - about 200 ml.

Preparing products for cooking okroshki

Okroshka on kefir is prepared very easily and quickly. But before pouring ingredients with a sour-milk drink, they should be properly processed.

Small potatoes (in the peel) and chicken eggs are boiled in salt water, and then cooled and cleaned. After that, both products are cut into medium cubes. In exactly the same way shred a fresh cucumber, radish and cooked sausage. As for green onions and dill, they are simply chopped with a sharp knife.

The process of forming a cold soup

Cold soups are not for nothing called such. After all, they are not prepared by boiling the broth on the stove, but by adding some cool beverage to the main ingredients. Most housewives add okroshku fresh kvass. However, we decided to dispense with non-acidic and not very fat kefir.

So, all the processed ingredients (fresh cucumber, radish, boiled sausage, chicken eggs, boiled potatoes, green onions and dill) are placed in one container, and then flavored with pepper and salt to taste. Stirring products, they are poured cold kefir.

If such a dish seems too thick, then it can be diluted with mineral still water.

How to serve to the table?

Cold soups are served to the table, as are hot ones. They are poured on deep plates, and if necessary, they are savored with spices. If desired, a slice of bread and sour cream are also served in addition to this dish. Bon Appetit!

Cooking cold tomato soup

The Spanish dish called salmorjo is no less popular than gazpacho. Moreover, it is as tasty and original. How to prepare it, we will consider right now. For this we need:

• Tomatoes fleshy fresh - 700 g;
• Chopped almonds - a handful;
• Bread white - 2 medium slices;
• Garlic is not large - 2 teeth;
• Olive oil - ¼ cup;
• Wine vinegar - ½ dessert spoon;
• Salt and other spices - use to taste and discretion;
• Egg, boiled hard-boiled - 1 piece;
• Ham - 2 medium slices.

Processing of ingredients

Before making a Spanish cold soup, you need to prepare all the ingredients.

Fresh fleshy tomatoes are thoroughly washed, and then cut in half, the flesh is taken out with the seeds. It is put in a sieve and grinded. The resulting gruel is combined with the remaining halves of tomatoes.

Chopped almonds are placed in a dry pan and fried a little. In exactly the same way, and with slices of white bread. If desired, it is dried in a toaster, and then broken into smaller pieces.

As for the chicken egg, it is boiled and coarsely chopped. Just slice and slices of ham.

Preparation of the basis

Preparation of cold soups is different from cooking hot. After all, there is no broth in this case. As a basis, it can be made from completely different products.

To prepare a Spanish dish, we need natural tomato juice. To do this, the processed tomatoes, together with the frayed flesh, are placed in the blender bowl and whipped. In the future, the resulting gruel is added grated chives, roasted almonds and bread. Repeating the ingredients, olive oil is poured into them with a thin trickle.

The ready base is laid out in a sieve and thoroughly grinded. As a result, a rather liquid tomato juice is formed, into which spices are added, wine vinegar. He is placed in the refrigerator. In this form, the base of tomatoes is kept for several hours.

How to present for dinner?

Cold vegetable soups, including Spanish, should be presented to the table in deep plates. They pour tomato mixture, and then spread a handful of boiled and chopped chicken eggs, as well as a few pieces of fragrant ham. In this form, a Spanish dish called salmorjo is presented to guests.

Cooking sweet cherry soup

Few people know, but cold soups can be cooked not only with fresh vegetables, greens, sausages, ham and other. Very often they are made with the use of berries, cream and even fruits. In this case you will get a cold sweet soup. It is good to serve to the table as a dessert.

So what products are needed to make a sweet Hungarian soup with cherries at home? For this we need:

• Cinnamon stick - 1-2 pieces;
• Cherry (fresh, frozen or canned) - about 1 kg;
• Wine dry red - about 750 ml;
• White sugar - about 180-250 g;
• Water without gas mineral or filtered - approximately 250 ml;
• Essence of almond - dessert spoon;
• Cream low-fat - about 250 ml;
• Sour cream is thick - 250 g.

Processing components

Before you begin to prepare a sweet soup, you need to process the berries. If they were purchased in a frozen form, then give them to thaw should not be. If it is fresh, then the berries need to be thoroughly rinsed and taken out of the bones. With regard to canned cherries, then before using it, you need to drain all the syrup. It can be used separately or used to prepare some other dish (dessert).

Cooking sweet soup

To make sweet Hungarian soup you will need only half an hour of free time. It is during this period that berries are well boiled in aromatic broth, they will maximize their aroma and taste.

So, to make a cold soup, pour dry red wine, mineral water without gas into the pan, and add white sugar and cinnamon stick. Having laid out the previously processed cherry as a base, it is brought to a boil and tinned on very low heat for 25 minutes. During this time, the berries should soften.

In the future, the basis is laid out almond essence. In a separate bowl, whip cream and sour cream, and then gradually add them to the red and sweet broth. After mixing all the components, cover them with a lid, remove them from the plate and insist on the side.

After a partial cooling, sweet Hungarian soup is sent to the refrigerator.

We serve a delicious sweet soup with cherries

According to the recipe, red Hungarian soup can be served to guests both in chilled and hot form. We decided to use the first option, so after a short brew of berries they placed the dish in the refrigerator. After a couple of hours, the soup with berries will become usable. It is poured on plates, and then presented to the table.

In view of the fact that a cold Hungarian soup was prepared using an alcoholic beverage, it is not recommended to give it to children. Although in the process of heat treatment of wine all alcohol is almost completely evaporated.

Let's sum up the results

As you can see, the process of cooking cold vegetable and sweet soups does not take much time and does not require a lot of ingredients. Practically everyone can make such dishes at home. After all, this does not require special knowledge in the culinary business. However, it is necessary to serve such soups to the dinner table only in the summer, since they are well refreshed, cooled and saturated without a feeling of heaviness and overcrowding of the stomach. Bon Appetit!