Ingredients:
• 2 medium sized beets
• Red or Green bell peppers
• 2 - 2 ½ liters of water (note: for additional taste, you may want to boil that the water is boiled into a light bouillon)
• 2-3 medium sized potatoes
• 3 small carrots
• 1-2 small onions
• 2-3 cloves garlic
• 1 teaspoon tomato paste
• 1 medium sized tomato
• 1 tablespoon fresh parsley
• ½ head fresh green cabbage or 1 small fresh green cabbage
• 1 cup of red beans
• Personal choice, if you wish to add more taste to your soup, than include salt and freshly ground black pepper.
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Step by step procedure:
1. Start boiling the water. (Or light chicken bouillon to add a little more taste).
2. Wash the beet and peel it. Cut the beet into long thin strips.
3. Add the beet into the water and cook for 15-20min.
4. While it is boiling, peel and cut the carrots into julienne.
5. After 15 min of boiling the beet, cook in medium heat the carrots for another 15 min.
6. While the soup is cooking, wash the pepper and cut into small pieces. Put it on the side for now.
7. Wash and peel the potatoes. Cut it into small pieces.
8. Cut the tomato into small pieces.
9. Now, add the pepper, the tomato, the potato, the tomato paste and the red beans into the big pot.
10. Add ¾ of teaspoon of salt.
11. Let everything cook in medium heat for 15 min.
12. Clean the cabbage and cut it into long thin strips.
13. Wash and peel the onions and cut into small pieces.
14. Fry the pieces of onions with light vegetable oil for 5min with tomato paste.
15. Add the shredded cabbage into the soup and let it boil for 5min.
16. After, add the tomato paste with onions into the soup.
17. Cut the garlic into very small pieces and add it into the big pot. Let it boil for 5 min.
18. Turn the stove off and let everything sit for at least 30 min.
19. Enjoy your Russian Vegetable soup.
Borsch is a soup that is made with beetroot and many vegetables such as tomatoes and carrots. This recipe comes from my mother’s side. It’s a Russian dish. It is very popular in many European countries and each of those countries has their own special touch of ingredients added to the soup. The soup is quite easy to prepare, however it is long a very long process. It requires a lot of work done throughout the cooking process. The longest part of the process is cutting all the vegetables into small pieces. I shared the dish with my family. They enjoyed it very much. I felt very proud but scared at the same time when preparing the dish because I am not a person who is very good at cooking. My mom helped me a lot to prepare and cook this meal. I felt very good about sharing the dish because the final result of the dish was very good. It tasted and looked very good. The ingredients that were used have a lot of vitamins, fibers and proteins in them. Vegetables such as cabbage and beets have a lot of vitamins and proteins in them. There are a lot of environmental benefits because we are not using the processed food or factory farmed meat but fresh vegetables. These ingredients are available at any grocery stores or supermarkets.
By Fahad Syed
This looks delicious, Fahad. Keep on cookin'
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