Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
We will prepare the products from the list for the soup. I got acquainted with this dish in a cozy restaurant in Bulgaria. It was there that I learned how to make a cold soup of greens with cucumbers on kefir for weight loss.
Step 2:
Take fresh cucumbers, wash them and cut them into small strips or grate on a coarse grater. If the peel of cucumbers is hard, then I remove it. Also, cucumbers should be without bitterness, so that the taste of the dish does not spoil.
Step 3:
Pour kefir into a blender bowl, pour in very cold water. I usually take the hearth not from the tap but cleaned. To do this, you can pass it through a special filter or make protium water at home. I have such water always at hand, as I make it every day. To do this, I pour water into a plastic bottle, freeze it, and then let it thaw at room temperature. Add chopped garlic to the kefir and water in a blender and whisk everything.
Step 4:
Pour the resulting mass into a deep container, season with salt and pepper, pour vegetable oil. Mix it up.
Step 5:
We beat walnuts with a hammer, peel them from the shell and crush them into small crumbs using a pusher. I always have peeled nuts in my house. I cut them up in advance in my free time, so that later, when they are urgently needed, I don't waste time preparing them. You can take the cleaned ones in the store. I tried to grind nuts in a coffee grinder, but fatty oil is released from them and they stick to the knife, so it's better to do it manually.
Step 6:
When all the ingredients of the soup are ready, we arrange the serving. To do this, put a couple of tablespoons of cucumber chips in a serving bowl.
Step 7:
Add washed and chopped dill.
Step 8:
Fill everything with kefir mixture and sprinkle the dish with crushed walnuts on top.
Step 9:
The soup is ready for cooking!
To be fair, I note that my husband does not really like this kefir soup, he likes the usual cold brew more, but the rest of my family is delighted with it. The soup is prepared in just a few minutes, without having to boil anything beforehand. And in the summer heat there is nothing better than this refreshing dish!
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Fresh cucumbers - 15 kcal/100g
- Walnuts - 650 kcal/100g
- Black Walnut English Walnut - 628 kcal/100g
- Black Persian Walnut - 651 kcal/100g
- Walnut oil - 925 kcal/100g
- Garlic - 143 kcal/100g
- Ground black pepper - 255 kcal/100g
- Dill greens - 38 kcal/100g
- Kefir fat - 62 kcal/100g
- Kefir of 1% fat content - 38 kcal/100g
- Low-fat kefir - 30 kcal/100g
- Kefir "doctor beefy" 1,8% fat content - 45 kcal/100g
- Kefir 2.5% fat content - 53 kcal/100g
- Vegetable oil - 873 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Water - 0 kcal/100g