How to make borsch soup like a slav (Borscht recipe) - Cooking with Boris

sour cream

🥗Healthier: Greek yogurt

💰Cheaper: creme fraiche

Greek yogurt reduces calories while adding creaminess.

vegetable broth

🥗Healthier: chicken broth

💰Cheaper: water with bouillon

Chicken broth adds richness and flavor.

beets

🥗Healthier: red cabbage

💰Cheaper: canned beets

Red cabbage provides similar color and nutrition.

fresh dill

🥗Healthier: dried dill

💰Cheaper: parsley

Dried dill is more accessible and less expensive.

Cut meat into pieces and boil in water for 1 to 1.5 hours.

Strain the liquid from the boiled meat.

Add 1.5 liters of water to the pot.

Add the boiled meat and cut beets and potatoes to the pot.

Set to boil on low temperature.

Cut onions and carrots while the soup is boiling.

Fry onions and carrots in a pan before adding them to the soup.

Add garlic to the fried onions and carrots.

Add salt to the soup.

Add the fried garlic, onion, and carrots to the soup.

Add cut cabbage to the soup and let it boil until all vegetables are soft.

Serve the soup with black bread and mayonnaise, garnished with dill.

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