Cold Beet Borscht - A Recipe With A Photo Step By Step. How To Cook Cold Borscht With Beets?

2023 Author: Catherine Crossman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-05-24 11:19

I would call this version of cold borscht beet okroshka. It contains almost the same ingredients as in ordinary okroshka and plus beets, and instead of kvass, beet broth. As meat, especially ham, doctor's sausage, tongue or boiled beef, although delicious without them. Serve cold borscht with sour cream, mustard, or horseradish to taste.

Ingredients

Beets - 2 pcs.

Short cucumber - 2 pcs.

Eggs - 4 pcs.

Potatoes - 4 pcs.

Water - 2-2.5 l

Boiled sausage - 200 g

Dill - 1 bunch

Green onions - 1 bunch

Lemon juice - to taste

Salt to taste

For filing:

Sour cream

Mustard

Horseradish

• 72 kcal
• 1 hour
• 1 hour

Photo of the finished dish

Step by step recipe with photo

Prepare the ingredients:

Peel and boil the beets, then refrigerate both the beetroot and the broth.

Boil the potatoes in their skins in advance, for example, steam.

Cook eggs, too, hard-boiled in salted water.

Grate or chop the beets.

Cut the sausage into strips.

Peel and cut potatoes into cubes or strips.

Chop the cucumbers and chop the herbs.

The eggs can be grated, chopped, or sliced.

Add grated beets, potatoes, sausage, cucumbers and greens to the beet broth, mix, salt and add sourness to taste.

Cold borscht is ready.

When serving, add eggs, sour cream, mustard and other sauces or seasonings to your taste to the plates of cold borscht.

Enjoy your meal!