Vegetarian Meals

Okroshka is a traditional meal of Russian cookery. It is also called a chilled soup. Russians mostly prefer to eat it in summer when the weather is hot outside, vegetables are cheaper, and soup is cold.

There is a number of variation for this meal. Non-vegetarians cook it using chicken or other meat bouillon. Today we offer you easy vegetarian variant of okroshka.

Ingredients:

• 2 litres mineral water
• juice of 1 lemon
• 1/2 tbsp sugar
• salt and mustard to taste

• 6 big potatoes (cooked in advance)
• 3-4 fresh cucumbers
• 2 cups of scallion (chopped)
• 1 cup of parsley (chopped)
• 1 cup of dill (chopped)
• 1 can of green peas

To make a pickle please use first four ingredients.

After that slice the vegetables, mix them with greenery and peas in a big bowl, and pour it all with the pickle. Keep in the fridge for an hour and serve.

We told you it was easy!