Started Christmas fast and it's time to think about preparing delicious and healthy vegetable (read – vegetarian) dishes. Luckily, at the Ukrainian traditional cuisine of many vegetable dishes, or those that can be prepared in two ways (or with meat or without). Responsible argue that, without – much tastier. Make sure cooked meatless borscht!
To prepare the vegetable borscht need to take:
- Beans;
- Cabbage;
- Beets;
- Carrots;
- Onions;
- Green;
- Salt and spices;
- Juice of half a lemon or a couple of spoons of tomato paste or canned pint of sorrel (in this case I did not use any acidifier – sometimes do not want to sour borscht.
And where are the potatoes? – Ask some. I never put my soup potato: Firstly, no potato recipe borscht get closer to the old, who prepared the hostess even Rus-Ukraine, and secondly, the potato is not very well with beans.
In a saucepan pour the water, thrown into beans and set on fire. In the meantime, my, clean and chop all the ingredients. I used carrots and beets, cut medium-sized slices, cabbage – no small shinkuem, onion – as often as possible.
As the water boiled with beans – cover, slow fire and boil for about half an hour. Then add onions, beets and carrots, and optional pours a little oil. (We can do without oil, but with fat then … habitual).
Cook, too, half an hour. And add the cabbage. Here I note the time of cooking, and the benchmark for the softness of cabbage and beets vivarenosti. 15 min. until cooked salt, add spices, herbs, acidifier, cover the lid. Once the fire is off, very well wrap towels and put on a half-hour brew.