Summer Cold Borscht
From crainny 16 years ago
- 10 minutes to make
- Serves 10
Lazy summer days are here and you want something refreshing and easy to make? Tired of iced tea? Make cold borscht!
Ingredients
- For soup: shopping list
- 1 large bunch of "young" beets shopping list
- sugar, salt, lemon juice (or vinegar) to taste shopping list
- For garnish: shopping list
- 2-3 hardboiled eggs shopping list
- 1 peeled english cucumber, diced shopping list
- 1 small bunch of fresh dill, finely chopped shopping list
- sour cream shopping list
How to make it
- 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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