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Passport & Plate - Summer "roof's" soup

Russian Federation | Friday, March 14, 2014 | 4 photos

Ingredients
liquids:
Kefir 1 liter of 1-2,5%
Kvass (i use concentrated) 1,5 - 2 table spoon
Vinegar 9% - 4 table spoon

veges and stuff:
potatoes - 5 pcs
cucumber - 4 medium pcs
eggs - 5 pcs
radishes - 6 pcs
some greens (i prefer dill and green onion)
salt and sugar
do not recommend use pepper, it’s very light and crystal flavoured soup

optional:
+ add ham
+ lemon aid instead of vinegar
+ one cup of liquid kvass instead concentrated kvass
*Kvass is a fermented beverage made from black or regular rye bread.

 

How to prepare this recipe
Turned on some good music, and let’s started. Remember: better emotional you had while cooking, better meal you will have.
First thing first, we need to boil our potatoes and eggs. (Use folk to check preparing of potatoes (don’t forget to salt), for eggs - wait 10 min after boiling, they've done!).
Now we can quickly chop tiny peaces of cucumber, radish and our green ingredients. Add all in a deep bowl. After eggs were boiled, cooled them in a bowl with cold water or ice, chop and add to other ingredients.
I prefer not to mix potatoes and ham in the union bowl, just served it separated.
And finally add kefir, kvass and vinegar to our “salad soup”. Add salt and sugar.
Served cold.

 

The story behind this recipe
Hello there! I see you would like to know more about this unusual soup.
Let’s go back for 150 years from now.
May, the last spring brooks run over streets, and people have their first harvest of the year. What do they have? Some greens, dills and radish. One more week and first cucumbers are here too. Cows give more and more milk, and women start to do more things like cheese and cottage cheese, but if we left our milk in warm place for night, we have silky, a bit sour kefir.
They added a low fat meat and potatoes, to do this meal not only refreshing, but also nourishing.
You know that feeling, when you smell something so familiar, and it brings you to place where you’ve been. What can do one plate of rich soup, a piece of fresh warm bread, or something from your own garden.
My granddad have builded a house for us in 1998. I was 5 years old. That summer he was ending the roof, and every evening we’re sitting up there and eat that soup. Then he always gave me a cup of raspberry.