How long to cook borscht in time

The cooking time for classic borscht with beef is 2,5 hours, including half an hour of infusion. It takes 1 hour of clean time at the stove. If chicken is taken for borscht, then the total cooking time for borscht will decrease to 1,5 hours, since chicken for broth is cooked for only 1 hour, and there is no need to insist such borscht.

How to cook borsch with beets

How to cook borscht – explaining step by step

Stage 1. Boil meat broth – cook for about an hour and a half.

Wash the beef, pour 4 liters of water into a 3-liter saucepan, put the peeled onion and peppercorns, bay leaf, put the meat in the water, cook over low heat under the lid for 2 hours after boiling. Salt water at the beginning of cooking – you need half a tablespoon of salt. After boiling the broth, the meat is slightly cooled and disassembled (cut) into pieces, and returned to the broth. The saucepan is covered with a lid.

Stage 2. Chop and cook vegetables in the correct order – about half an hour.

Finely chop the onions, grate or finely chop the garlic, grate or chop the beets – here to taste. And similarly with carrots, you can rub, or you can cut into semicircles. Someone even grinds it in a meat grinder. In the classic recipe, variations to your taste are allowed. Add vegetables to borscht in this order:

– Cabbage – if ordinary, then before the potatoes, and if the cabbage is young and tender, then it can be added 5 minutes after boiling the potatoes. If you like cabbage to be crispy, add with potatoes

– Potato

– Vegetable frying with beets – to be cooked while the vegetables are boiling.

Stage 3. Make vegetable fry and add flavorings – 15 minutes.

Heat a frying pan, fry the onion for 5 minutes over high heat, stirring occasionally. Add carrots and garlic to the onion, fry for 5 minutes. Add the beets, fry for 5-10 minutes over medium heat (some people like it when the beets are fried). Then add tomatoes or tomato paste, pour a ladle of broth from a saucepan with meat into a frying pan with vegetables, additionally add sugar and vinegar to taste, simmer for a couple of minutes, add to the borscht – all vegetables in it should already be cooked by this moment. It is better to taste both potatoes and cabbage, and at the same time check the broth for salt. Cook the frying in borscht for 3 minutes.

Stage 4. Insist borscht – half an hour. The saucepan with borscht is tightly closed with a lid, carefully placed on the blanket and wrapped around it on all sides, preferably in several layers.

This concludes the preparation of borscht. Now all that remains is to pour it into plates and serve with sour cream and fresh chopped herbs.

Delicious facts

How to serve borsch

Sour cream, bread with bacon or basturma, green onions and garlic, hard-boiled chicken eggs, cheesecakes with cottage cheese, donuts are served on the table.

How to store borsch

Close the pot with borscht tightly with a lid and store in the refrigerator for up to 7 days (remember that vinegar is a strong preservative). Borscht can be frozen in a package – frozen, it can be stored for a month.

Product cost

The cost of products for cooking a 4-liter pot of borscht is 400 rubles. (on average in Moscow for July 2019).

How to make dietary borscht

The dish can be made less high in calories if you do not cook the frying. It is enough to peel and cut vegetables – and add them to the soup: beets, after 10 minutes cabbage, after 5 minutes potatoes, carrots and onions. And you can cook borscht without meat at all – lean borscht is also very good.

How to cook borscht in kitchen gadgets

How to cook borscht in a slow cooker

1. Put the meat in a multicooker pan, add water, salt and cook in the “Stew” mode for 1,5 hours.

2. Separately in a skillet, fry onions and carrots, beets, tomatoes.

3. Add frying to borscht along with potatoes and cabbage.

4. Set the multicooker to the “Stew” mode, cook the borscht for another 1 hour.

How to cook borscht in a pressure cooker

1. Wash, peel and grate the beets.

2. Put the beets in a pressure cooker, fry them in an open pressure cooker in vegetable oil for 10 minutes, then add onions and carrots, after another couple of minutes tomato paste – and simmer for 5 minutes all together.

3. Add meat – boneless meat cut into small pieces is suitable for borscht in a pressure cooker, fry for a couple of minutes.

4. Lay out the potatoes and cabbage.

5. Add salt and spices to borscht, additionally lemon juice from half a lemon

6. Cover with water, cover the pressure cooker and cook for 20 minutes, then wait until the pressure drops, add herbs and serve.

How to make donuts for borscht

Products

Flour – 1,5 200 gram cups

Water – 100 milliliters

Sugar – 1 tablespoon

Salt – XNUMX/XNUMX teaspoon

Sunflower oil – 1 tablespoon

Yeast – 10 grams

Chicken egg for greasing – 1 piece

Recipe

1. Heat water to 40 degrees, dilute yeast in it, cover and leave for 10 minutes.

2. Measure out 0,75 cups of flour, add sugar and salt, butter – and mix well.

3. Add the diluted yeast to the flour mixture.

4. Add the remaining flour and knead the dough, then cover and leave in a warm place for 40 minutes.

5. Preheat the oven to 150 degrees.

6. Form dumplings from balls of dough, put them on a baking sheet covered with baking paper. The distance between the donuts should be at least 1,5 centimeters so that they do not come into contact during the lifting process.

7. Beat the chicken egg and grease the donuts with a cooking brush.

8. Bake the donuts for 20 minutes.

Serve warm donuts with borscht.

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