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

Submitted by kszyhu

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

600

MILLILITRES WATER

200

GRAMS BEETS
young roots with stems and the youngest leaves, roots sliced, stems chopped *

TEASPOON LEMON JUICE

TEASPOONS SUGAR

EACH LOVAGE
sprig *

EACH MARJORAM SPRIG
or fresh savory sprig *

EACH ALLSPICE *

EACH BLACK PEPPERCORNS *

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 *

EACH SCALLIONS, SPRING OR GREEN ONIONS
sliced, chives chopped, undefined *

CUP DILL WEED
chopped finely *

1 ½

TEASPOON SALT
more if needed

TEASPOON BLACK PEPPER
ground

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.