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Do you want to cook a really beautiful and delicious red borscht? One little secret and the dish will be the brightest on the whole table. There is no magic in this, you just need a small slice of lemon and a couple of extra minutes!
Ingredients
- Beef brisket (on the dice) – 500 g
- Beetroot - 300 g
- Potatoes - 4 pieces
- Cabbage - 300 g
- Carrots - 1 piece
- Onion - 1 piece
- Garlic - 3 cloves
- Tomato paste - 3 tbsp.l.
- Vegetable oil - 40 ml
- Allspice - 3 peas
- Bay leaf - 2 pieces
- Lemon - 1 slice
- Salt - to taste
- Water (filtered) – 3,2 l
Step-by-step cooking recipe
Cut beef into large pieces, rinse and cook with bay leaf for 1.5 hours. Remove the foam that will appear in the process.
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Peel and slice potatoes, beets, onions. Grate the carrots on a coarse grater, chop the cabbage into strips.
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Put the beets in a separate bowl, squeeze out the lemon juice, mix and set aside for 10 minutes.
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Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan, add onions and carrots and fry until golden brown.
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Add beets, crushed allspice peas and cook for another 7 minutes.
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Mix tomato paste, 200 ml of hot broth and pour into a frying pan. Cover and simmer for 15 minutes.
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Pour potatoes, cabbage and roast into a saucepan with meat. Cook for 10 minutes over medium heat.
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Add salt and remove from heat. Serve the finished borscht, sprinkling with chopped herbs.
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