Cooking Russian Traditional Summer Meal - Okroshka | Cuisine in Russia
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- Опубликовано: 17 июн 2021
- It was a perfect summer day to cook okroshka - fresh, crunchy and a bit sour Russian traditional meal. It is sort of a cold soup that has very basic ingredients and is easy to cook. It has been popular in Russia for centuries and is considered as a significant meal in Russian cuisine.
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OKROSHKA RECIPE
🔷 Ingredients:
Potatoes - 3
Eggs - 3
Cucumbers - 2-3
Radish - 5-6
Green onions
Dill
Sausage - about 250 gramms (I used half of mine)
Sour Cream
Salt & pepper
Bread (optional)
🔹For liquid (choose one):
Kvas or
Kefir or
Carbonated water
*I cooked pretty big amount of it. You can downsize the amount of ingredients in several times just to give it a try.
🔷Cooking:
Boil eggs and potatoes. Wait till they'd be cool again.
Cut everything into small cubes. Radish should be cut very thin into straw shape and greens should be cut small as usually.
Mix everything together, add some salt and pepper and then add some sour cream.
Add liquid (better cool from the fridge) and mix again.
Decorate with greens and enjoy with a slice of bread!✨
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I’m not a fan of kvas so I like okroshka with kefir+water or with carbonated water🥛🙌🏻 My husband likes the one with kefir the most☺️
I LOVE okroshka😍😍😍real summer taste!! I’m originally from Latvia and we love okroshka! I have heard people make it with kvas, I personally never tried It that way! We usually use kefir and it tastes aaaamazing!! So refreshing😍 kvas is one of my favourite drinks, but I don’t know if I could make okroshka with it 😅🙈
Yes, that would be nice if you would give a review at the end of the video - for example, 8/10 kvass, 9/10 kefir, etc. Something like that. Nice video!
I was JuSt about to comment asking what your favorite one is. Ty!
Maybe I'll start "safe" with Kevin. 😄
Ugh....KEFIR not Kevin! I don't know any Kevins!🙄🙄
Dear Vika, thank you for making Russia accessible to us in such a graceful way. I truly enjoy your content! You are very inspiring!
I like what you said. I agree!
I couldn’t of thought of a more beautiful comment to write. That’s so lovely xx
I want a t-shirt now that says “sour cream is very important” 😂❤️
Tfs. Agatha is so sweet eating the boiled egg, You are a sweet mom.
I’m watching you from Poland and we have that type of soup too. It’s called chlodnik.”, mainly made with kefir/sour cream but it’s meatless. :) our cultures (especially in culinary) have many similarities. 🙈
here in Latvia it's the same. Without meat
Agatha is so cute snacking on that egg! 😊
Привет Вика! Привет из Чехии. Я учу русский язык первый год. Ваши видео прекрасно знакомят с русской культурой, а голос очень приятный. Спасибо большое. Anet
Привет,я тоже из Чехии и мой родной язык русский и украинский)учу чешский язык и культуру чехов)
I’m very thankful I have a European store right down the road, and they sell dairy products as well as other Russian/Ukraine bits and bobs. And I absolutely love it there. One day, if the world ever calms down, I wish to go.
As a child of Russian immigrants in Europe, it's very nice to see how Russians live in real life and see some similarities to mine (like food and everyday habits). I've only been there twice and it's such a whole other world. It almost feels like an alternate universe considering that my life could've easily been there if it weren't for some factors in my parents' lives. These videos are actually quite nostalgic for some reason... Love them!
In Romania we call that sausage “parizer”. It brings back so many memories from childhood, I haven’t eaten in years!
Yes!! Same in Croatia ! My fave, with fresh bread and Mayo 😂
Dar nu avem genul ăsta de saladă. Cea mai apropiată de ce mâncăm noi este tzatziki
Here in Greece we call it "parizaki" which means small "pariza", so is almost the same name!
As a Romanian living abroad, I miss parizer SO much!!
In Bosnia also we call this type of KOLBASA(russian) or in Bosnian KOBASA, we call it PARIZER, after all we, Bosnians, are Slavic too, southern Slavs. I literally understand 60 percent of russian even more if spoken in slower pace.
Okroshka seems very refreshing meal and i totally understand why it is something you associate with summer, fresh herbs and veggies which you didnt have in winter, not cooking steaming hot boiled cooked food which in Winter is a must, this is easier to make and is refreshing in short but hot sunny summer days in Russia. I have to tell that we in Bosnia also dont have this type of meal, closest would be a cold potato salad with boiled potato and onions cut in pieces and put in a bowl and we add some oil in it some salt ,peppa( biber) and dill and add some mayo and some sour cream. Usually 90 percent we eat this potato salad with fish, trout fish or any other sweetwater or sea fish.Also we have tzatziki with cucumber and joghurt type and we have also SATRICA salad which is basically spring onion sticks cut in pieces with sour cream mixed.
Weather in Bosnia is also kinda same except we dont have extreme winters although on average is -5 -10 up to -20 -25 in extreme cold streaks
. Vika i can totally relate to you as i feel we are part of the same "race". I know Slavs are ethnic group but we have our differences from Roman or Anglosax or German ethnic groups which are also white in color but some other stuff are little different.
Real Slavs, we're just having fun
but when it's trouble time
we don't joke around.
Pozdravljam sve ljude u cijeloj Rusiji. Živjela Rusija.
Kolbasa is HUGE in the provinces Manitoba and Ontario, in Canada (particularly in Northern Ontario). It’s popular here because of the many Ukrainian and Polish people who immigrated here. When I lived in a town in the very northern part of Ontario, rye bread and kolbasa was everywhere and my husband and I enjoyed it very much. Cabbage rolls and perogis are also very popular, and although my husband and I have since moved from that very northern town, perogis are still one of my favourite “comfort foods” to this day. :)
All of this is very popular in some states in the USA as well - I'm in Michigan (northern state) and we have a lot of Polish people here, or descendents of Polish people :)
Kolbasa is definitely huge in Ontario - I’m in Toronto and you can buy it at just about any supermarket
Same with Alberta. In Edmonton, there is a large Ukrainian and Polish population. I grew up near a village that had probably half the people descended from the two countries. Lucky me, I got to eat pierogies, kobasca, cabbage rolls, milesnica (spelling is wrong), creamed potatoes with fresh dill, etc. And those little buns filled with prunes or apples or poppyseed. So good! I'm hungry now...
I’m a Northern Ontario girl living in the Ottawa Valley now and I notice we pronounce kielbasa differently up North then in this part of Ontario!
Interesting, sausage in Hungarian is called kolbasz
The sausage looks similar to what we call bologna here in North America. Agatha is your official taste tester 😂. She is so cute.
That's what I was going to say, the sausage looks like bologna.
Same😝
Yummm, fried bologna (or baloney) is delicious with eggs and toast for breakfast :)
I think in America the closest thing to this would be potato salad. It's made differently depending on the region, but does have potatoes, sometimes boiled eggs, other crunchy veggies like green peppers, onions and celery, occasionally herbs, salt and pepper, and a creamy base usually with mayo. I've had it with bacon in it, but it is usually meatless. And it is considered a summer staple! Truth be told, though, okroshka is just so unique! Especially with the carbonated water. It sounds so refreshing. I'm going to do the best I can to recreate it! Thank you Vika!
Hi Cara:). It is interesting and different for sure. I opened my Yummly app and the search for Okroshka brought up quite a few. I haven’t read them yet😬. Just FYI if you’re interested. 😊
@@MagnoliaBelle That's awesome. Thank you! :)
@@radioactivebabushka you’re welcome. ☺️
In Russian cuisine the closest thing to a potato salad would be salad "Olivier".
Instead of a sour cream you can use a plain Greek yogurt and mix it with carbonated water. This mix, as a substitute of kvas, in cold soup, used in Southeast Europe and the Middle East cuisine.
Agreed. Cold soup isn't really a thing over here but take out the kefir/kvas, add a little mayo and maybe some vinegar for the sour flavor (and I personally would take out the sausage because I don't think I'd like this type based on the description), and it's basically a Russian/Eastern European style potato salad.
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The kefir one similar with the Turkish 'Ayran Soup' . We made it in Turkey with the chickpeas,wheat,yoghurt, dill and served cold like yours 🥰
I live in Washington state USA but I am Russian and we have European stores here that other Russian/European people have formed all over so I can get Kvac and just about everything from a Russian Grocry store :)
I also live in Washington. I’m not Russian but these videos have me really curious about Russian cuisine. Do you know of any good Russian restaurants or bakeries here in Washington? I’d love to try some Russian treats!
@@erinelizabethlee i guess depends on what part of Washington your in? There a marvel food and deli in auburn and its amazing. It has so much freshly made Russian food and groceries as well
Omg, this is like an elevated version of a dish from my country called "tarator". I am from Bulgaria and we have a summer soup but it just has water, yogurt, cucumber, garlic and dill so it is very simple compared to okroshka. Loved how you let Agata help, too! ❤️
We have in Poland quite similar dish. Its called chlodnik is without meat. Only with kefir or sour milk and fresh vegetables like cucumber, betroot.
In Russia we have the same) just call it chOlodnik
@@julhoffman4736 what's the difference between холодник и окрошка?
@@anmir there is no beetroot in окрошка.
That's actually Lithuanian dish originally called Šaltibarščiai. In Poland you even call it "Chłodnik litewski".
@@NeuTronas Litewski is my surname! (This is my partners account.) My family are from Poland and I still don't know where the Lithuanian roots came from lol
My husband is from Russia so in every summer I "cooked" this soup. In my country (Poland) is named chłodnik ☺️
I don’t add sausage and also I have a different variation of this soup basically it is a cucumber soup :) a lot of cucs , bell peppers, radishes and three types of green herbs ( dill , parsley, spring onions)
I guess Chlod is probably root of words88 with meanings of Cold in Polish.
In Bosnian the root word is Hlad, similar to your Polish Chlod. If i am correct than you see actually how Slavic languages are really similar.
I'm from Latvia and in Latvia we made this soup with beet root and kefir ..and it's so good when it's so hot outside
We make that in Poland as well 😀
That’s actually a separate dish called svekolnik (or cold borscht), but it’s similar
So happy to see other countries use sour cream the same way my Mexican family does. It's more than just a dollop on your tacos.
Thank you for making us discover the Russian culture, its dishes, its landscapes. Your videos are of a softness.
It's also my dream to show non-touristic places in Russia to people from other countries 😍😍😍
I never thought I'd see the day l'd see inside Russia. It's quite fascinating.
@@susanbrogan2517 I also film such days. You can look at a playlist called "my vlog" on my channel.
what's russian "culture"? lol and what kind of dish is that?? no flavor nothing. russia along with eastern europe has worst cuisine on earth
@@redngtm5342 if you don't feel a flavor maybe you should take a covid test?
You’re as cute as a speckled pup! 😊 xoxo from The Netherlands!
My grandparents are Latvian. They both have passed now. We live in Australia and I grew up with a lot of these types of foods. She grew her own vegetables, and there was always fresh vegetables.on her table like radish, cucumber, carrots and of course dill. We always went their home for every holiday, birthday. Loved going there and her foods.
From your audience in Texas: Great content from Russia, it is very insightful and beautiful!
Thank you for sharing your daughter was a very good little help 👍😁
The music and the different filming angles add to the experience of watching this video and I love that.:)
My wife has been making a variant of that in Canada for years. Her family is Russian (Belarus) so know I can tell her what it’s called!
My family is from Belarus too!!
belarus isn't russia, so just check if there is a chance that the same meal will be called differently! :)
Okay, let's talk about how Belarus is not Russia. /*frustrated Belarusian noises*/
@@volhan.p.9722, my wife’s father was born Russian, in what is *now* Belarus. He was a Kulak, exiled to northern Russia. My mother-in-law was from a short bit away from him but her family left before the collectivization really started to roll. Suffice it to say, Belarus *was* Russia when my wife’s family were there, hence, this recipe came from Russia, despite Belarus now being in a “free” country. (Let’s not get into the “puppet state”conversation here).
@@lory2622 I'd say that Belarus was part of the USSR and was called BSSR (Belorussia), but USSR is not Russia, Russia was just part of it like many other countries. BSSR had different boarders than Belarus nowadays, but still.
In Lituania we have a pink cold soup called “šaltibarščiai”😅 we make it with fresh vegetables, eggs, beets that gives a pink color and kefir and it’s served with the boiled hot potatoes on the side!
I love sour cream and all things pickly so Russian food is amazing
We make a dish in USA, potato salad, 3 hard boiled eggs diced, 3 boiled potatoes diced, cup of mayonaise, little chopped onion and celery, refrigerate, eat cold. Delicious! I love your cooking videos!
Thank you once again Vika for sharing your culture and family with us through this beautiful video.
For those of us in your audience who may not have tried okroshka or never been to Russia, you have just transported us there to experience your culture and country. For those friends in your audience who may identify as Russian/Eastern European or related nationalities but now scattered all over the globe, you have just transported them home, even if for a few minutes.
Food has so many superpowers to nourish our body and soul and through your wizardry dear Vika, you demonstrate this perfectly. Can't wait for the next video.
In my country we have tarator - a cold soup with dill, traditional yogurt diluted with water and a little bit of oil, cucumber, and dill! Some people add crushed walnuts too! Thank you for sharing Russian traditions! Love from Bulgaria!
This sounds very good and very refreshing!
Sounds exactly like Greek tzatziki.
@@SBCBears tzatziki is more similar to snejanka - bulgarian salad with cucumbers and yogurt. The tarator is a cold soup.
@@gabrieladraganova5982 Yes. The recipe seems common throughout Europe with slight variations. I make it with five ingredients-- dill, salt, yoghurt, lemon and cucumber. I'm in Florida, but learned to make it in Michigan.
I LOVED tarator when I visited Bulgaria and I have made it at home in the US too. Need to do it again, this summer. I also liked the shopska salad.
Not only does your salad look refreshing... but it's refreshing to see ingredients used in new ways. Thank you for sharing! I love your videos!
I think I would like this without the sausage and yes, with the kefir. It reminds me of a cold cucumber soup in some ways with extras :). Thank you for sharing. Love your peonies! We had those at our wedding.
Hey Vika! Thank you for your recipe!its like i know from my grandmother. I'm from ukraine but i live in switzerland. I like this dish and i tried to make it the same but without Kwas. Its very hard to find Kwas here so i made my own recipe without kwas. I use the same igridients but replace it with cold sparkling soda and sweet mustard and natute yoghurt. All my friends and family loves it, just so refreshing! If you don't find Kwas in yout country. Try this out😍😉
This looked great, I bet it did smell summery 🙂 But I think I'd like it with mayo than the liquids! It sure was nice to see Agatha helping with the peeling and the eating haha.. she is sweet and you're a great mom! 👍🙂
So fun to see different meals be made!!! Thank you for sharing!!!!
Much love from the USA!!
When new videos are uploaded I feel like a new episode of my favorite show came out! I love these videos
Dear Vika. I love your vidoes. I am a Russia living abroad. Kefir is very similar to butter milk which is widely available in the US and many other country. We use buttermilk instead of kefir when we cannot find kefir.
In our family we actually always make okroshka without the sausage. So yes okroshka without a sausage is also okroshka! But I really enjoyed your video!
I once had Okroshka when visiting Tallin. Your video inspired me to make my own. I left out the potatoe and did it with Kefir, no Kwas. I added a little garlic as well. I liked it a lot.
Thank you. You're really good at explaining things. I find your videos very interesting and love seeing your little family thanks for sharing your day to day life.
This was very interesting to watch, we don’t have anything like this in the UK 😀
Looks a very tasty soup 🙂 very similar the traditional food of my country " saltibarsciai" it's mean " cold-beets" 🙂 Greetings from Lithuania 🤗
in poland we traditionally eat chlodnik whenever it gets hot in the summer :) i think it’s with beetroot and kefir and lots of dill! also egg inside n then my grandma always cooks potatoes and id have a bit of potato followed by a spoon of chlodnik or dip the potato into the chlodnik :) so yummy
Most of the big supermarkets here in the UK sell kefir. I make my own with goats milk as I can't have cows milk. I actually like sour cucumber soup. ❤
my mom and aunts always made this when i was little! such nostalgia!
"I'm always snacking while I'm cooking..." I felt that lol!
Okroshka is my favorite dish! I don't do it with kvas but with kefir and sparkly water, just because it was the recipe used in my family. For the kolbasa, I would recommend people to use mortadella (Bologna/baloney sausage) or even boiled chicken meat.
I absolutely love that "uhhhhmmmm" face 💚 and there's nothing like a big glass of cold kefir on a hot summer afternoon!
Looks delish!!
This is so interesting! There is something similar in Eastern Europe. The recipe varies from country to country, but in Bulgaria we use cucumber, dill, garlic, yogurt, water and sunflower oil, sometimes ground walnuts. And in the past people didn't necessarily put yogurt in the dish, only water and oil. My grandma preferred it without yogurt. Very refreshing on a hot summer day!
That looks really refreshing and like it would be good eaten with fresh bread, like you said. I wouldn’t mind trying this dish. Your little girl is very cute and a good helper to her Mom!
You have such a lovely energy about you. I would totally want to be your friend if I knew you in real life. 😊
Oh, it's very interesting. Love it!
We have a dish in Spain called ensaladilla rusa (this translated means: Russian type of salad), this video made me realise that it is a modified okroshka (until now I thought that the name was random and it was not actually a Russian dish, but this video made me realise it’s gotta be the Spanish version of this Russian dish!).
It is also a mix of greens, boiled potato and eggs; all cutted in small cubes. But we normally use tuna instead of sausage, and mayonnaise instead of sour cream. It is also served cold and it is very typical to eat it during summer days.
Thank you so much for helping me learn where this dish actually comes from!! An for showing us the traditional way to cook it!😊
I read cookbooks from different countries than my own (USA) but its so much more informational to see the actual cooking. Thank you.
Okroshka is my fav. Can eat it both for summer time and during any winter as well. But only with kvas. Nothing more.
I'm definitely going to try this!
Yum will try ☺️
Thank you for sharing! We started making okroshka with ham. So, in case you are looking for healthier alternatives it is a nice substitute (we can typically find completely natural ham with no additives). We love it with kefir, I mix it with water, yogurt, lemon juice, salt and pepper prior to adding to the mix. Where I live, kvas sold in stores is extremely sweet. So, it ruined the taste. That's not the kvas my grandparents used for this meal (just wanted to warn people in case they want to try it with kvas).
It is refreshing to see young people cook with fresh produce. You are a good mom. Oh excuse me. I referred to my daughter as mom in public the other day and a speech Nazi corrected me. You are a parental unit. But to me you are a mom. This looks delicious.
A parental unit? Lol. That sounds like vintage SNL. If someone ever tries to "correct" my wordage, they wont like me.
@@peggyscott125 yes and it was my waitress.
I will never let some one call me a parental unit. I am a MOM and my husband is a DAD!
That Nazi needs to be purged. The correct term, last time I checked, is "birth person". Even Biden said it.
@@SBCBears you know that’s what I thought. But she was at least 20 so I figured she knew everything.
Very nice. Enjoy watching you prepare the different foods and learning about the culture in central Russia. It kind of reminds me of what we call potato salad here in Kentucky, USA. Except for the liquid part. Your daughter is so sweet!
Is so good that I can see you eating with bread. I always love soups with bread. For me is complete meal.
My daughters think is wired to have bread with everything. They are born in Australia but I am Polish and my home is in Australia for many , many years. Lets have again slice of bread before I go to bed =)
Yes ! So cool! It looks tasty!
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That looks sooo good!!! And definitely has summer flavors!
Thanks for the lesson 😊
Your videos made me miss Russia so much! Love from Vietnam ❤️
I love watching your videos here in the UK, Russia has always fascinated me and your culture. Thank you for making it so accessible, Agatha is adorable ❤️❤️ xx
Looks delicious, thank you for sharing your meal with us!
Amazing video!!
Can’t wait to try this recipe. Thank you.
Thanks for sharing! 😋🥰
this is new!!! i learn something!
I made it with kefir- it was delicious! Thank you for showing me how! ☺️
Super interesting, thanks!
Looks yummy!! 🌺🌼🌺
Yummy,yummy!
I love your videos x
Looks delicious 🤤
I loved this video
Looks tasty!
It resembles a little a (in France) macédoine de legumes, which is a veg salad with mayonnaise. It looks interesting with the sausage (maybe the equivalent here would be cervelas sausage).
I have had digestion issues and recently discovered kefir and it saved my guts! I now have a happy tummy. 👍
Love your cooking vids
This looks Yummy, I imagine it has a similar taste to our “Potato Salad” here in the USA. My husband likes potato, eggs, fresh spinach leaves, onion, pickles and ham. :-) mixed with mayonnaise and lots of mustard. Salt and pepper
Love the video.
Keep posting :-)
love this soup
Thank you for the recipe! Looking forward to the next traditional cooking video🙏👍
Wonderful cooking vicra xxx
Love your videos❤️❤️❤️
I love your editing in this video :)
Looks delicious
Thank you for sharing
Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful video thank you.
Very very nice!!!
Looks good. A fresh summer treat.
WONDERFUL VIDEO!! MMMM LOOKS SO GOOD!!