Refrigerator in Belarusian "And there was dinner in the castle ..."

[And dinner at the castle was ...The men drank, then sat on the benches,They ate Lithuanian cold food in silence.Here are chickens served with vinaigretteIn the company of a live Hungarian with a claret.]

Refrigerator in Belarusian "And there was dinner in the castle ..."

Category: First meal

Kitchen: Belarusian

Ingredients
Boiled beets	1 piece of medium size
Chicken egg	1 PC
Greens (green onions, dill and other greens)	bundle
Fresh cucumber	1 large
Radish	2-3 pcs
Kefir (1% for those who want to build) (tan, ayran)	at your look
Salt, sugar, lemon juice.	taste
Ice	a couple of cubes
Sour cream	taste
Boiled hot potatoes	to serve

Cooking method

• 
• The recipe for fridge, offered by me, has taken root in our family since the six years of living in the capital of Belarus, Minsk. It was shared with my mother of a beautiful soul by a woman with an interesting and difficult fate. She went through the entire Great Patriotic War as a nurse and then for many years worked in the same capacity in the city clinical hospital in Minsk. But that's another story!
• This recipe has several features that make it delicious!
• 1. The main part of the greenery must be covered with salt, preferably using a wooden pusher.
• 2. Do not put potatoes directly into the soup itself.
• 3. To preserve the color of the beets, use lemon juice, not vinegar.
• 4. Place a piece of ice on a plate when serving!
• For the rest, we cook as usual:
• - steam the young beets (in my Oursson pressure cooker) or, better, bake them in foil until soft
• - we take a good handful of greens, and dill and green onions should prevail (I still love cilantro very much) and crush, grind them with salt.
• - rub the beets into a container on a coarse grater and sprinkle it with lemon juice, finely chop or rub an egg, add a grated or finely diced cucumber and be sure to cut into thin strips of radish.
• - fill with cold kefir (1%), slightly diluted with cold boiled water (diluted to taste) or tan, ayran (we will get a fresher, spicy taste)
• - mix well, taste and add a little sugar to soften and harmonize the taste.
• - put in the refrigerator to brew for at least 30 minutes - the taste will definitely improve!
• - serve in beautiful bowls with wooden spoons, put sour cream and sprinkle with chopped herbs, dropping a piece of ice into a plate!
• 
• We eat, snacking on boiled crumbly potatoes sprinkled with salt !! And this very moment will indicate that you are eating a real Belarusian "haladnik".

The dish is designed for

2 servings

Time for preparing:

with boiled beets 10 minutes

Note

This cold soup is especially tasty with young beets, and in Belarus it is often made with pickled beets - generally a masterpiece!
Alternatively, you can boil peeled beets in water, save water and dilute kefir with it.
There is also a Minsk-style chill in nature, they use sorrel in it!
And dinner at the castle was ...
The men drank, then sat on the benches,
They ate Lithuanian cold food in silence.
Here are chickens served with vinaigrette
In the company of a live Hungarian with a claret.

This quote from the famous epic poem by Adam Mickiewicz "Pan Tadeusz" (1833) is one of the oldest testimonies of the centuries-old popularity of the Lithuanian-Belarusian chill. In both countries, it is prepared in approximately the same way, and Lithuania for Mitskevich is, first of all, the Novogrudok Voivodeship. Cold borscht is not an ordinary borscht, which was cooked, left for tomorrow and forgot to heat up. Cold borscht, and in Belarusian - chill ("khaladnik") is prepared especially in order to eat it with pleasure cold on a hot summer day, to fill up and cool down. Quenches thirst much better than Coke!

Cold sour soups made from beets, beet tops, sorrel are the pride of the Belarusian and Lithuanian cuisine. In the past, they were made on pre-fermented vegetables (kvass), now the technology has been somewhat simplified thanks to the use of kefir, sour cream or yogurt, but it seems that the taste has not suffered from this. You can use pickled beets ("beetroot") commonly sold in stores to prepare this traditional dish, or boil it yourself, and then generously add vinegar or citric acid. Many times sung by the writers of Belarus and Lithuania, the traditional beetroot cooler with boiled potatoes with a bite is especially indispensable in hot weather, and during fasting too. (material from here - tastybelarus.by/belarusian-cuisine/entrees/cold-beetroot-soup-with-kefir/)
That couldn't be better!

For the beginning summer - the very thing
We will try to cook, thanks

[Chef]

Chef, thank you for noticing, in the heat it is irreplaceable and more dietary than okroshka, which we also love very much! The main thing is to check again for salt, sweetness and acidity after insisting :)!

When I lived in Belarus, I fell in love with this dish and to this day it is a specialty in our house. And to whom I did not cook in Moscow, everyone who ate was delighted. Only I exclude radishes and I don’t like potatoes, I cook without it, I don’t put ice either, because I get it out of the refrigerator, everything is already cold enough. And for meat lovers, I boil the meat separately and put it on a plate for those who like it. And I like to boil young beets for steam, grind greens with salt, I like kefir thick, I take 3.2% fat, but not watery, somewhere in half with water (boiled and chilled), everything else is to taste. It turns out yummy.

[Galin]

GalinAnd I take kefir, which I get, the main thing is that it is of high quality, tasty! but now it has taken root more on the tan - it turns out something between the cold and okroshka. Steamed beets (in the recipe indicated), with a baked taste, it is more interesting, but it is confusing to bake in summer
I don’t use meat, let alone sausage in okroshka, I don’t want to be in the heat in summer. But I'll try to offer the guests, maybe men need it, although they don't add it to the fridge.
I wish I could find crumbly potatoes !!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for supporting the recipe !!!

The fact of the matter is that I want delicious potatoes, but for some time I haven't come across it, that's why I stopped serving potatoes for the fridge. And I cook meat specifically for men, they already put it on their plate, and it’s very tasty for me even without meat.

[Galin]

Galin, I feel good with homemade rye bread too! But according to the canons it is necessary with potatoes, suddenly someone grows their own! Although we planted a blue-eyed, so again we inflated with planting material, and I really dreamed of making potato pancakes and sorcerers out of delicious!

By the way, a day on this soup is guaranteed minus 1 kg

Glad, the chiller is wonderful! Not a single subtlety is overlooked. I confirm, the kefir chill is a fairy tale! Only I don’t even dilute thick kefir, let alone 1 percent. And the secret of success lies in insisting in the cold, as you correctly wrote.

[Arka]

Arka, we act differently with kefir, sometimes I put a thick one on the table, and then each one adds something to himself, some lemon, some water .... So glad that they approved my approach to the chiller !!! Thank you, I will do and remember like-minded people !!!

[Arka]

ArkaOh, I just saw that you are from Minsk, I miss you so much, and soon we are going to visit Minsk, relatives, a house with wings! My happiest years passed there! And what kind of people were around !!!

[glad]

This is what I have never done, but I really want to! glad, I will definitely prepare and report

I take it as a bookmark, I never did it with radish, and I always serve hot boiled potatoes separately for the beetroot and okroshka. Thanks for the recipe

[Rada-dms]

Rada-dms, thanks for the recipe, always did something similar in the summer, but of course it was very different from this recipe. It seems to me that this option should be much tastier! I will definitely do it and report back!

[Glad,]

Glad, thanks for the recipe!
Since childhood, I love chill, but I never even thought about the fact that this is a Belarusian dish! Surprised.
In Vitebsk, we prepare a fridge on water, radishes are never added.
We usually make a large pot of base for a few days. Before serving, cut cucumbers, eggs, onions, dill, parsley into each plate, add sour cream or kefir.
I will definitely try your version.

And how beautifully the recipe is served! What can you think of if kefir, ayran, etc. I do not drink (in the sense that I never absolutely (I eat sour cream))?

Classic version Water with lim acid, kvass, whey !! Dilute pomegranate juice or pomegranate sauce with water .. A lot of things can be done, but then it's no longer a chill

In the north of Ukraine, next to Belarus, young buryachki are not boiled, they are added raw ... Or rather, they rubbed and poured chilled well water and insist while everything else is rubbed, cut, boiled ... When everything is mixed, cold sour is added again until liquid state ... They give it more infusion while everyone is going to the table ...
Now, from time to time, I also add mint and tarragon, pieces of lime ...
But I don't like such liquid things, they eat with salad

[auntyirisha]

auntyirisha, boil peeled beets in a small amount of water with the addition of a small amount of lemon juice (citric acid), you can add chopped spinach or sorrel at the end of cooking for 5 minutes and do the rest with this broth, at the end sour cream :)

[katerix]

katerix, with citric acid is a modern classic. In ancient times with citric acid, and even with lemons, I think it was a little bit tight !!! Therefore, they made it on excellent beet kvass. And why use citric acid now, if there are cheap natural healthy lemons, unless someone has an allergy
There are many options, sometimes they differ in neighboring villages, nothing prevents us from experimenting :)
And the version with raw beets is made by our relative, who lives abroad. They are prone to raw food there, she calls it borscht. Not everyone, I think, has raw beets for health (coarse fiber), although I myself love it. Could you include a recipe with raw beets? Thank you for paying attention to the recipe!

[Rada-dms]

Rada-dms, thanks, I'll try it like this, with boiled beets

And the point is to repeat in one ingredient ?! There are other recipes and there is not enough time for everything.
I rarely visit here
And I love and respect things like chilli, thank you both for the story and for the recipe !!!

Congratulations on your well-deserved victory in the "Best Recipe of the Week" competition

[Rada-dms]

Rada-dmsand I congratulate you on your victory! Moreover, in our "castle" today there will also be ... "Belarusian-style chill"

[Rada-dms]

Rada-dms, Congratulations!

[Chef]

Chef, Thank you! Thank you very much! As a newcomer to this forum, I am especially pleased that such a simple but very useful recipe was appreciated!
I think the Nobel Prize winners are not as happy as I and my family are!
This is a kind of tribute to the memory of the woman who introduced our family to Belarusian cuisine.
Oh, and what a blood sausage she was making ......!

[kubanochka]

kubanochka, Thank you!!! The hostesses here are all noble, but to remind at the right time about a good recipe, as it turned out, never hurts !!!

[Babushka]

Babushka, thank you very much! Very very nice!

[kubanochka]

kubanochka, Babushka, I have a lot of your recipes in my bookmarks, I'll start reporting soon! In general, you can and should contact me on you !! And I, sitting in ambush for almost three years and reading the forum, dreamed of joining your friendly team!

And now, laureate, honored figure from the bushes ...

[Pakat]

Pakat, yes, from the bushes !! yes to your garden!
And real scientists, I think, are happy with discoveries!
And in general, it's better here: both a victory and a prize at once !!! And the mood is good and you can immediately notice!

And I, sitting in ambush for almost three years and reading the forum, dreamed of joining your friendly team!

What is this ?! Three years ago, I could have gorged on a fridge! Why did you sit there so much ?! And if in essence, then I am so full, so full! Delicious!

Wow, there is something new on the forum
And my congratulations !!! Glad to keep

[kubanochka]

kubanochka, yeah, sometimes I apply twice a day !!
There is one more variant, even two, but the beets are over :)

[katerix]

katerix, Yes sir!!!! Will be done!!!
Thanks for the support!!!!
And we are waiting for interesting, unknown recipes from you!

[Rada-dms]

Rada-dms, today your fridge just saved my family from hunger. We had no electricity from five in the morning until eight in the evening. And there is no gas in the house. Therefore, there was nowhere to cook or reheat. It was lazy to turn on the power plant and light the brazier, because I did not think that there would be no light for so long, I was waiting for it to be turned on. In general, there was no light, but there was a wonderful refrigerator in the refrigerator! We were saved! Thank you for not letting me die of starvation

[kubanochka]

kubanochka, well, that's great, how! And I think that this is my good mood !!! And then they remember me with a kind word !!! Well, how on the second day he probably infused?

[Glad,]

Glad, thanks for the recipe!
Since childhood, I have loved chill, but I never even thought about the fact that this is a Belarusian dish! Surprised.
In Vitebsk, we prepare a fridge on water, radishes are never added.
We usually make a large pot of base for a few days. Before serving, cut cucumbers, eggs, onions, dill, parsley into each plate, add sour cream or kefir.
I will definitely try your version.

Absolutely right. In Gomel, they also never cooked a fridge with kefir, only on water, and radishes are never added - this is nonsense, just what you have listed. Then who wants to add sour cream to taste.
They also added borage (such a grass) when the cucumbers had not yet grown.
This is how my great-grandmother, grandmother and mother cooked.

[Exocat]

Exocat, I'll try your version too :) and you try mine! I pointed out that the best and, for that matter, one of the most correct beetroot producers in general on beet kvass! And now, many, and not without pleasure and benefit, make on any dairy products - in fact, sour cream with water is also a fermented milk product with water;)
Radish in a very small amount is very decorating if you cut it correctly :)

[Exocat]

Exocat, I'll try your version too :) and you try mine! I pointed out that the best and, for that matter, one of the most correct beetroot producers in general on beet kvass! And now, many, and not without pleasure and benefit, make on any dairy products - in fact, sour cream with water is also a fermented milk product with water;)
Radish in a very small amount is very decorating if you cut it correctly :)

And I tried yours when I arrived in Moscow. These are completely different dishes based on water from sorrel or from beets, and based on kefir, and based on kvass.
Sour cream in our version with Viteblyanka is added to taste (whoever likes it, he adds) and no more than a spoon, last but not least, to the base on water.
And if it is based on some Central Asian lactic acid products, then this is certainly not a dish of Belarusian cuisine.

If you do it on a katyk, then this chalop wakes up ...

[Pakat]

Pakat, but do not tell about the nuances ??? what is included in this CHALOP, what an enticing word !!

Chalop - okroshka with sour milk ...

[Pakat]

Pakat, ahhh, well, it means that we eat chalops in the family for half our lives too !!!!

strange only a girl can be friends with a girl, but a boy and a girl can not, or what?

[Pakat]

Pakat, ahhh, well, it means that we eat chalops in the family for half our lives too !!!!

Chapak, are you okay ??? Already fixed ...

and boy and girl not, or what?

Well Duc ETOGES will be called differently, little chtola ??

[Omela]

Omela, which is natural, it is not safe .... oh, not ugly !!

[Pakat]

Pakat, yeah, so uncomfortable, so uncomfortable ...

And if instead of boiled water you add carbonated mineral water, just before serving, then in general there will be sand

I did this too, with mineral water, when there was nothing at hand, but the water SHOULD NOT be strongly alkaline!;) But why pour water, if there is ayran, tan, kefir, yogurt!