Chilled Vegetable Soup

Name: Chilled Vegetable Soup
Total time: P2H
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Fusion
Ingredients: water; beets; lemon juice; sugar; lovage; marjoram sprig; allspice; black peppercorns; bay leaves; buttermilk; cucumbers; white radish; scallions, spring or green onions; dill weed; salt; black pepper

great dish when it is hot outside and/or inside.. sometimes a main dish with separately served potatoes, often with meat or sausages.. I like to serve it as a side dish to grilled food.. similar to Lithuanian chilled beat soup, which is fantastic, however they add a lot of cream, hard boiled eggs and do not add radish rather..

Yield

4 servings

Prep

10 min

Cook

20 min

Ready

120 min

Ingredients

Amount	Measure	Ingredient	Features
600	millilitres	water
200	grams	beets young roots with stems and the youngest leaves, roots sliced, stems chopped	*
1	teaspoon	lemon juice
2	teaspoons	sugar
1	each	lovage sprig	*
1	each	marjoram sprig or fresh savory sprig	*
3	each	allspice	*
10	each	black peppercorns	*
1	each	bay leaves	*
400	millilitres	buttermilk or yogurt, but the best is kefir
200	grams	cucumbers fresh, sliced then quartered
200	grams	white radish grated not so finely	*
2	each	scallions, spring or green onions sliced, chives chopped, undefined	*
1	cup	dill weed chopped finely	*
1 ½	teaspoon	salt more if needed
½	teaspoon	black pepper ground

Low Fat, Low in Saturated Fat, Low Cholesterol, Trans-fat Free, Low Carb

Directions

1 - Pour water into a pot, add beet, lovage, marjoram, allspice, bay leaf, bring to boil and simmer for about 20 minutes. In the meantime add ½ teaspoon of salt, and 3 teaspoon of sugar. At the end add 1 teaspoon of lemon juice and adjust salt and sugar if needed. Set aside to cool for an hour. Remove bay leaf and sprigs. 2 - Find a big bowl, 1½ litre at least, toss in cucumber, radish, onion, chives, sprinkle 1 teaspoon of salt and ½ teaspoon of ground pepper. Mix gently using a spatula and set aside for and hour. Stir from time to time. 3 - Add chilled beet soup to you bowl, add kefir, buttermilk or yogurt, stir gently until combined. Season with salt and pepper. Chill it in the fridge. Serve cold.