Kitchen appliances and utensils: bowl, pan with a lid, spoon, knife, cutting board, frying pan with a lid, meat grinder, stove.
Ingredients
Product | amount |
White beans | 100 g |
Beet | 1 PC. |
Carrot | 1 PC. |
Bow | 1 PC. |
A tomato | 2 - 3 pcs. |
Red bell pepper | 1 PC. |
Cabbage | 200 g |
Water | 2 l |
Vegetable oil | 50 ml |
Lemon juice | 1 tbsp. l |
Sugar | 0.5 tbsp. l |
Salt | 0.5 - 1 tbsp. l |
Bay leaf | 2 pcs. |
Allspice | 3 - 4 pcs. |
Step cooking
Cooking Beans
- Soak 100 g of beans overnight in cold water.
- Before cooking, drain the water, wash the beans. We put it in a pan, pour 1.5 liters of pure cold water, cover with a lid, cook until tender. If you cook on meat broth, then you will need 1.5 liters of broth. Beans are boiled for 30 - 40 minutes, depending on the variety. From the pan you can always get the beans and try whether it is ready or not. While the beans are boiling, prepare the vegetables.
Vegetable preparation
- Cut 1 medium-sized beets into strips. Cut 1 carrot.
- Straws cut 1 large red bell pepper.
- Chop 1 large onion into small pieces.
- Cut 200 g of cabbage into strips.
- Scroll in a meat grinder 2 - 3 medium tomatoes.
Cooking 1st Fry
- Heat a little vegetable oil in a pan. Spread the chopped onion, fry for 2-3 minutes until transparent.
- Add carrots to the fried onions and fry them all together for 3-4 minutes. The carrots should be slightly fried.
- We spread chopped bell pepper there, fry for 3-4 minutes until the pepper is soft. Constantly mix everything.
- After cooking, put the frying on a plate, proceed to the preparation of the 2nd frying (you can in the same pan, but you can cook in parallel in 2 pans).
Cooking 2nd Fry
- Pour vegetable oil into a preheated pan. We spread the chopped beets, fry for 2 to 3 minutes.
- Add the twisted tomatoes. Stir constantly.
- In order for the beets not to lose their ruby color, pour 1 tbsp. l lemon juice.
- Add 0.5 tbsp. l Sahara. Mix.
- We cover with a lid, we will stew until the beets are tender and soft. We periodically look in the pan and mix the vegetables. If there is not enough liquid, just add water or a decoction from the beans. Beets should be stewed, not fried.
We collect borsch
- When the beans are boiled, spread the chopped cabbage.
- Add 0.5 tbsp. l salt. Bring to a boil, cook 5 minutes after boiling.
- We spread the 1st frying with carrot, pepper, onion into the pan. Let it boil, cook another 5 minutes.
- We try vegetables, especially cabbage. If the cabbage is ready, then lay out the 2nd frying with tomatoes and beets.
- Bring to a boil, cook for 2 to 3 minutes. We taste it. If necessary, add salt, sugar, acid so that the taste of borscht is pleasant for you.
- At the end of cooking, put 2 bay leaves, 3 - 4 peas of black allspice.
- Turn off the fire, cover with a lid. We leave the finished borsch under the lid for 20-30 minutes to insist so that all tastes are united.
- Pour borsch on plates, call everyone to the table. If desired, add chopped garlic, black pepper, a little greens. Serve with garlic buns.
Video recipe
In this video you can see how to cook lean borsch with beans. You will see what slices of vegetables are cut, how to cook the frying, in what sequence to put the ingredients in a pan.