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Grandma's Rosie's Borscht Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
Gohar's Borscht
Ingredients:
2 beets, diced
4 carrots, diced
2 onion, diced
1 head green cabbage, finely sliced
1 heaping tbsp. tomato paste
1 fresh tomato diced (optional for extra flavor)
Parsley to garnish (optional)

Sauté onion and carrot. When the carrots are tender, add beets and fresh tomato and sauté. Stir in tomato paste. Add water and bring to a boil. Add green cabbage in. Lower fire, cover pot and cook until tender to your liking. Garnish with parsley.

Directions:
Directions:
Another Recipe:
8 oz chuck beef, cut into bite sized pieces (optional)
7 cups water
4 cups chicken broth
2 cups, 2-3 gold potatoes, cut into ½ in cubes
2 cups, cabbage
1 medium onion, minced
1 small carrot, shredded
2 ¼ cups beets, peeled and julienne into 1/8 inch
1 cup water or tomato juice
1 cup diced or crushed tomatoes or tomato sauce
1 Tablespoon lemon juice
1 tsp sugar
3 garlic cloves, minced
dill and green onion, to garnish

To cook meat:
In a small pot, place the beef and pour in enough water to barely cover meat.
Season with salt, bring to a boil, reduce heat to low and cook for 1-1 ½ hours, until fork tender, while cooking the borsch.

To cook borscht:
In a large pot, bring the water and chicken broth to a boil. Reduce heat to low and add potatoes and cabbage.
Meanwhile, melt 1-1 ½ Tablespoons butter on medium heat in a skillet.
Add onions, season with ¼ tsp salt, cook until translucent, about 3 min, stirring frequently.
Add carrots, season with ¼ teaspoon salt and continue cooking until soft, about 4 min. Add to the soup.
Julienne beets.
In the same skillet that you used for the carrots and onions, combine beets, water (or tomato juice), tomatoes or tomato sauce, lemon juice and sugar. Season with 1 ½ tsp salt and ⅛ tsp ground black pepper.
Cover, bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer on med heat for 25-35 min, or until beets are tender.
Add minced garlic cloves.
When the potatoes are tender, add the beets and beef to the Borsch. (if you like the consistency of your soup to be thinner, add some of the broth you cooked the beef in)
Garnish with dill and green onion, if desired add a dollop of sour cream.

Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
6
Preparation Time:
Preparation Time:
30 mins.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
Grandma Rosie used to make a version of this. This version is thanks to Gohar.


 

 

 

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