Kitchen appliances and utensils
- plate;
- pan;
- pan;
- spoon;
- whisk;
- plate for serving dishes.
Ingredients
- Boiled beets - 300 g
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Sour cream - 150 g
- Ghee - 20 g
- Passed flour - 7 g
- Ground black pepper to taste
- Salt to taste
- Water - 2 tbsp. l
Step cooking
- For this recipe, beets are boiled in advance. Strain the flour in a frying pan without oil.
- Peel the onion and cut it in half. We cut each half again in half and cut into thin strips.
- Put the frying pan on the fire to warm up. We spread the melted butter.
- Add the onion to the heated oil for frying until transparent.
- Pour sour cream into a pan, pour in it a passerized flour, add salt and black pepper. We mix everything well with a whisk to get a homogeneous mixture without lumps.
- We put a saucepan with sauce on the fire, and with constant stirring, bring to a boil. As soon as the sauce boils, remove it from the heat. It should be thick enough.
- Cut the boiled beets. You can crumble it into cubes or thin strips.
- Sliced beets are sent to the pan to the sour cream sauce.
- Add the fried onions to the saucepan.
- We put the pan again on the fire, constantly mix and bring to a boil. If the sour cream sauce is too thick, then you can add water to the pan.
- As soon as the sauce with beets in the pan boils, set the fire to a minimum level. Cover the pan with a lid and simmer for 20 minutes.
- After that, turn off the fire and leave the beets in the pan for another 10 minutes to insist.
- Put the finished beets on a plate and serve. Enjoy your meal!
Cooking options
There are other options for cooking stewed beets:
- You can fry some carrots with onions.
- In some recipes, a raw apple is added to the finished beets.
- You can add a little tomato paste.
- Some hostesses use olive, sunflower, or any other vegetable instead of butter.
- If you like nuts, you can add them to such an appetizer.
- It will also be delicious if you add chopped garlic.
- You can add fresh tomatoes.
- According to the Polish recipe, flour is passer on lard, lemon juice and a little sugar are added to beets.
- You can also decorate with green sprigs of parsley, dill, onion or cilantro.
- Of the spices, in addition to black pepper, you can use red and allspice, as well as caraway, coriander, thyme.
Video recipe
Watch this wonderful video recipe for making delicious stewed beets in sour cream sauce. The author of the plot demonstrates and describes each stage of preparation. You can also see what the finished dish looks like when serving.