How To Make Ukrainian Borscht Soup! HOMEMADE BORSCHT. Cabbage & Beet Soup. Recipe by Always Yummy!

beets

🥗Healthier: golden beets

💰Cheaper: canned beets

Golden beets are lower in sugar, while canned beets are often more affordable.

sour cream

🥗Healthier: Greek yogurt

💰Cheaper: plain yogurt

Greek yogurt provides more protein and fewer calories, while plain yogurt is usually cheaper.

Pour the beef with 12 cup of water, bring to a boil and skim the froth, add 1 medium bulb onion, 1 medium carrot, fresh parsley stems, allspice and peppercorn, cover with a lid and boil for 1h 30 min over low heat.

Chop onion and bell pepper.

Cut carrot, beet and white cabbage into strips.

Heat the vegetable oil in a pan and lay out the cut beet, fry for 3 minutes over medium heat.

Then add the tomato paste, lemon juice and sugar and fry stirring for 5 minutes over medium heat.

Add water into the pan, bring to a boil and simmer with a lid covered over low heat for 15 minutes.

In another pan melt the butter and fry the cut bulb onion for 3-4 minutes, add minced garlic, cut carrot, bell pepper and chopped tomatoes, stir and simmer over medium heat for 5-7 minutes.

Take the meat out into a bowl, separate from bones and cut into average pieces, take the veggies out of the broth.

Add the cut potato, white cabbage and a bay leaf into the broth, bring to a boil, cover with the lid and cook over low heat for 10 minutes.

Add the braised vegetables, beet and cut meat into the stockpot. Stir, bring to a boil and cook over low heat with the lid covered for 10 minutes.

Crush the cut pickled lard, garlic, fresh parsley leaves and salt in a mortar or blender and add into the stockpot with the borscht.

Salt and pepper to taste, stir and boil for 2 minutes over low heat.

Switch the heat off, cover the stockpot with the lid and leave for 15 minutes.

Serve your Ukrainian borscht hot with sour cream, horse-radish, green onion, pickled lard, garlic pampushki (buns) or fresh bread.

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