Beer exists for a long time, and it is in demand by many nationalities. But it tastes different everywhere: one beer is soft and aromatic, the other is tart and intoxicating.
Beer is a healthy product. It contains sugar, dextrin, carbonic, succinic, lactic, phosphoric acid, as well as potassium, magnesium, sodium.
In moderate quantities, beer favorably affects the mental state, relieves physical stress.
Hop beer substances have a positive effect on digestion - they dull the feeling of hunger. Even physicians recommend drinking weak and anemic people in small doses. But there are also negative properties of this drink: its frequent and excessive use of it causes fullness up to obesity. No wonder there is such a thing as “beer belly”.
If you drink a lot of beer, then there is intoxication, which is tolerated harder than from wine. Therefore, beer must and can be drunk in moderation, which everyone defines himself, taking into account his state of health.
Beer is not only successfully used in the form of a low-alcohol beverage, but also added to various dishes. In beer, marinated and stewed meat. On it knead the dough for pies, cookies and cakes. Skilled housewives make beer even hash.
Subtleties
- After reading the recipe, you do not need to immediately run for a beer, because this okroshka is an amateur. If a person does not tolerate the smell of beer, then you should not translate products. It is enough to imagine that okroshka on beer will not have the taste and aroma to which everyone is so used.
- Okroshka on beer because of the small amount of alcohol is contraindicated in children. If you cook okroshka on non-alcoholic beer, then for ethical reasons, the kids do not even give it a try. Therefore, all the ingredients for okroshka cut into one pan or bowl and mixed with beer directly in his plate.
- Okroshka can be made immediately in a saucepan, if this dish has already been tested and has not caused any complaints against the hostess.
- Not every beer is suitable for okroshka. It is desirable that this was a malt beer. But if there is none, then you can take a non-bitter non-alcoholic or with a small number of degrees. Okroshka should deliver gastronomic pleasure, and not to get drunk!
- Beer lovers should enjoy such okroshka. But still the first time it is desirable to make it in a small amount - on trial.
- The ingredients for okroshka on beer are the same as for ordinary ones: potatoes, fresh cucumbers, radishes, eggs, greens. Before you put meat products in such a cold soup, you need to imagine whether they combine with beer. For this dish is well suited smoked sausage, pre-boiled beef meat, ham. Seafood lovers can put salted or smoked fish in okroshka.
- Okroshka on beer is done without the addition of vinegar or citric acid, since acid and beer are not combined with each other. But this does not mean that acid can not be added, because it is a matter of taste.
- Okroshka on beer is eaten chilled, since it is impossible to drink warm beer.
And now - the most popular recipes.
Okroshka on beer with sausage
Ingredients:
- medium sized potatoes - 3 pcs .;
- eggs - 2 pcs .;
- fresh cucumbers - 2 pcs .;
- radish red - 2 pcs .;
- cooked sausage - 300 g;
- salt - to taste;
- dill and parsley - a small bunch;
- green onions - a few feathers;
- beer - 1 l;
- sour cream - to taste.
Method of preparation
- Boil the potatoes in advance. If it is old, peel and then cook. Remove from broth and cool.
- Boil hard boiled eggs. To yolk turned bright yellow, cook them for no more than 12 minutes. Boiled eggs immediately put in cold water and cool. Then clean and chop the way convenient for you.
- Wash cucumbers, cut into small cubes. If the peel is bitter, be sure to cut it.
- Cut the sausage in the same slices as cucumbers.
- Rub the radish on a medium grater, then the hash will turn out to have a more delicate texture and rich taste.
- Chop greens.
- Add all ingredients to the pan. Put the salt. Stir.
- Store the pan in the fridge and cool well.
- Put a portion of the crumbled mixture on each plate. Pour beer. So that it does not rise with a cap of foam, tilt the bottle as low as possible and pour beer in a thin stream. Stir. Try whether there is enough salt, and, if necessary, salt. Put sour cream.
Okroshka on beer with boiled meat
Ingredients:
- medium sized potatoes - 3 pcs .;
- fresh cucumbers - 2 pcs .;
- boiled beef - 300 g;
- eggs - 3 pcs .;
- radishes - 2 pcs .;
- dill - a small bunch;
- green onions - a few feathers;
- dark beer - 1 l;
- salt - to taste;
- mustard - optional.
Method of preparation
- Peel potatoes, boil until soft. But it should not be boiled soft, otherwise in okroshka it will turn into a liquid puree. An unappetizing sight!
- Boil hard boiled eggs. Cool in cold water. Peel and finely chop.
- Grate the cucumbers in a medium grater or cut them into thin strips.
- Cut the boiled meat into strips or small cubes.
- Radish rub on a grater.
- Chop the dill and green onions.
- Put all ingredients in the pan. Salt it. If you like the taste of mustard, add it to the chopped vegetables. Mix everything well.
- Put a portion of okroshka on a plate and fill it with cold beer. Add sour cream or mayonnaise to taste. Serve on a fully cooled table.
Okroshka on beer with salted fish
Ingredients:
- potatoes - 3 pcs .;
- fresh cucumbers - 3 pcs .;
- dill and parsley - a small bunch;
- green onions - to taste;
- salted red fish - 300 g;
- beer - 1 l.
Method of preparation
- Boil the potatoes. It should be soft, but not boiled. Cool completely. Cut into cubes.
- Peel fresh cucumbers and cut into strips. If the cucumbers are small, the peel can not be cut.
- Chop greens. Cut the green onion into rings.
- Cut the fish into thin slices. Make sure that it does not have bones.
- Put all ingredients in the pan. Salt it. Stir.
- In a plate, place a portion of chopped vegetables, cover with beer. To taste, add mayonnaise or sour cream.
Mistress to note
Okroshka on beer can be prepared according to any recipe, replacing kefir, kvass, mayonnaise or yogurt with this drink. Successful experiments!
