Tasty and rich soup with beets со

Kitchen appliances and utensils: pan, spoon, sieve, knife, cutting board, grater, frying pan, stove.

Ingredients

Step cooking

Cooking broth

• We wash under water 400 - 500 g of brisket meat.
• Pour 1.5 - 2 liters of cold water into the pan, put on fire and bring to a boil.
• Drain the water, wash the pan and again lay out the meat and fill it with water.
• Cook over low heat for 2 - 2.5 hours.
• Add spices to taste.
• Filter the finished broth through a sieve.
• Boiled meat from the brisket should be 300 - 400 g. We disassemble it into fibers or cut into small pieces to add to the borsch. If your family does not like meat in borsch, then serve it separately.

Vegetable preparation

1. Cut into large pieces 3 medium potatoes, 1 potato leave whole.
   
2. Finely chop 1 large or 2 small carrots.
   
3. Shred ¼ part of a head of cabbage, about 200 g.
   
4. Cut 1 beetroot into strips or cubes.
   
5. We cut 1 onion into small cubes. Cut the same cubes ½ red bell pepper. Halve 1 red tomato. We rub the halves of the tomato on a coarse grater, leaving the skin.
   

Cooking borscht (1st stage)

1. Pour the finished broth into the pan. Turn on the stove and let the broth boil. In the boiled broth, put the chopped and whole potatoes, chopped carrots.
   
2. When the vegetables are half-ready, put the chopped cabbage to them.
   

Cooking dressing

1. Pour 2 - 3 tbsp into the pan. l vegetable oil. Let warm up on fire.
   
2. Put the chopped beets in the heated oil. While the beets are stewed, nothing needs to be added: neither salt nor water. This is necessary so that the borscht turns out red.
   
3. After 5 minutes, when the beets are stewed and slightly reduced in size, add the bell pepper and onion. Stew all vegetables for 5 to 7 minutes.
   
4. Pour the grated tomatoes. If there is no fresh tomato, you can put a few tablespoons of tomato paste. Add 1 tsp. sugar to enhance the taste. Stew for another 5 - 8 minutes.
   

Cooking borscht (2nd stage)

1. To the finished vegetables, lay out the sliced ​​pieces of meat. We catch a whole potato from the pan, knead it on a plate and send it back to the pan so that the broth becomes saturated.
   
2. We send there the beetroot dressing. Borsch is bright, beautiful, rich. Let the borscht boil, boil another 3 minutes.
   
3. Add 2 bay leaves and 1 tbsp. l any spices you like. Salt and pepper to your taste at the very end of cooking.
   
4. Dill or parsley can be added to the pan and boil a little. Borsch is ready. Let it brew for 20-30 minutes.
   

Serve with finely chopped herbs, sour cream and donuts.

Video recipe

In this video you can watch how they cook red borsch with cabbage on meat broth. You will see how to chop vegetables, in what order to put in a pan when cooking, how to properly dress, so that the borsch turns red.

Borscht - delicious, hot and hearty lunch food for the whole family. How many housewives - there are so many ways of cooking. There are a lot of culinary recipes for borscht, and it turns out different for everyone. But if you try to cook according to our recipe, you cannot cook it anymore. We are sure you will like this borsch.