How to learn to cook delicious borsch with canned beans 🍲

Kitchen appliances and utensils: hob, tablespoon, tea spoon, pan, pan, knife, cutting board, grater, garlic press.

Ingredients

Step cooking

1. To prepare the broth, take 3 chicken thighs, rinse and soak for 30 minutes in cold water. After this, drain the water, rinse the meat again, fill with clean water and put on fire. Bring to a boil, remove the foam and simmer for 40-60 minutes. So the broth will remain transparent.
   
2. Prepare the vegetables. Peel 500 g of potatoes, cut into small cubes or straws.
   
3. Thinly chop 300 g of white cabbage.
   
4. Peel one large onion, 3-4 cloves of garlic and medium carrots. Cut the onion into a small cube, grate the carrots on a coarse grater, and pass the garlic through a press or grate too.
   
5. On a fine grater, grate the pre-cleaned medium beets.
   
6. For bell pepper, remove the core and cut it into small strips.
   
7. To prepare dressing for borscht, pour 5-6 tbsp. On a hot pan. l vegetable oil Fry chopped onions until a light golden hue, add carrots and garlic, sauté for 3-4 minutes and add chopped bell pepper. Stir and fry everything together for another 5 minutes over low heat.
   
8. Remove the meat from the broth, add 3-4 hours. l salt and send to boil potatoes. When the potatoes are almost ready, add chopped cabbage to it.
   
9. After 3-4 minutes, add the grated beets and boil for 4-5 minutes. Next, add the fried vegetables, 0.5 l of canned beans and 250 ml of tomato juice.
   
10. Bring to a boil, cover and let stand for 10-15 minutes. Serve hot, bon appetit.
    

Cooking recommendations

• You can use any meat to prepare the broth, but if you have poultry, then the cooking time of the broth will increase.
• For a more aromatic broth, add ½ onions and carrots, as well as several sprigs of herbs to the pan. In the end, they should be removed from the broth.
• The meat remaining after cooking the broth can be cut and added to the pan with borsch or directly to the plate.
• Having prepared the vegetable broth, you can cook lean borsch.
• In order that the beets during cooking did not change their color and the borsch turned out to be bright, sprinkle it with 1 tsp. lemon juice or vinegar.
• For piquancy, you can add red ground pepper, chili pepper, bay leaf or other spices.
• If you like sweet borscht, add some sugar.
• Add a little chopped fresh herbs before serving.
• Serve borsch with sour cream, garlic, green onions and fresh bread.
• Traditionally, pampushki with garlic and herbs are prepared for borsch.

Video recipe

A step-by-step video recipe will help you follow all the processes of cooking borsch with beans.