Vegetarian borscht (beetroot soup)

28/01/2009 at 21:46 · Filed under Recipes and tagged: Beetroot, borscht, butterbeans, sour cream, vegetarian

The seed sowing timetable is now set up, and the ‘Print it’ button seem to be beyond me at the moment so I have turned my thoughts  a recipe for Vegetarian Borscht or Beetroot soup.

I picked up some beetroot in the supermarket,  it’s one of the vegetables I am hoping to grow this year.  I love beetroot, I was brought up knowing it only as a pickle, but my late aunt, who in her younger days worked as a maid in a very posh house told me it was always served there as a hot vegetable with white sauce or creamed horseradish.  I have tried the white sauce version and it was lovely.

Today though, it will be soup.  As I have search through all the information I can find it seems that some add beans, others add white cabbage and so on. The basics are that you need beetroot and onions. It is also often served cold in the summer.

This is my interpretation of an old classic and as always your responses  are very welcome.

Today I have used stock cube but you can make your own stock or use some of the verdurette, recipes are not written in stone, so make your choices according to the time and ingredients you have.  You could add celery or leave out the cabbage or use some butter beans to make it more substantial.  Enjoy!

I used the following:

• 3 small beetroot grated
• 1 large onion finely chopped
• 3 cloves garlic finely chopped
• 3 small carrots grated
• 1/4 small white cabbage shreaded
• 2 medium potatoes grated
• salt
• pepper
• olive oil
• 2 stock cubes disolved in 1 litre of water  or 1 litre of vegetable stock
• Yogurt or sour cream to serve is optional.

Method

Add the onion and garlic and saute in the olive oil until transparent

Add the grated beetroot, carrot and shreaded cabbage and cook for a five minutes

Add the grated potato and cook for another five minutes

Add the stock and seasoning to taste

Cook for about 30  to 45 minutes.

Whizz smooth.

Serve it if you like with a spoon of yogurt or sour cream

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