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Summer Cold Borscht Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Crainny / All my dishes 1 year, 10 months ago Lazy summer days are here and you want something refreshing and easy to make? Tired of iced tea? Make cold borscht! Prep:10m Cook:10m Servings:10	Crainny
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Ingredients

For soup:

1 large bunch of "young" beets

sugar, salt, lemon juice (or vinegar) to taste

For garnish:

2-3 hardboiled eggs

1 peeled english cucumber, diced

1 small bunch of fresh dill, finely chopped

sour cream

Directions

Peel the beets and grate them on the coarse grater

Boil about 1 gallon of water

Drop all shredded beets into the water, bring back to boil

Reduce heat and cook for 10 minutes, no longer, over low heat.

Add salt, sugar and lemon juice (vinegar) to taste.

The soup should taste sweet and sour, but not overpowering

Cool the soup off and chill in the fridge.

Prepare garnish:

Boil the eggs, cool, peel and chop coarsely

Peel and dice the cucumber

Chop dill

Add about 1-2 tablespoon of garnish into each plate of borscht.

Add sour cream

Serve chilled

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trigger 1 year, 4 months ago said:
Five year ago I had this recipe in a restaurant in Russia for the first time. Now that it is summer and I have this recipe I will again get to enjoy it again. High Five
Michael

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