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Beet and potato soup: borscht-red without meat or cabbage, with vinegar to keep its color
Meatless soup with grated beets, carrots, potatoes, garlic, and marjoram, simmered with vinegar. Serve with sour cream and dill. Serves 6.
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- Prep time
- 15 min
- Cook time
- 45 min
- Total time
- 1 hr
- Servings
- 6 servings
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Cuisine
- Slovak
Beet soup is a thick, meatless soup made with raw beets and potatoes, especially well known in eastern and northeastern Slovakia. Coarsely grate the beets and briefly cook them with vinegar, which helps the soup retain its deep red color. Unlike borscht, it contains neither meat nor cabbage. Season it with garlic and marjoram, then add a spoonful of sour cream and some dill to each bowl. It is ready in about an hour.
Ingredients
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Instructions
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Prepare the vegetables
15 minPeel and coarsely grate the beets and carrots, preferably wearing gloves because beets stain. Dice the potatoes and finely chop the onion.
Cook the beets
15 minSauté the onion in the oil until softened. Add the beets, carrots, vinegar, and sugar, cover, and cook for 10 minutes. The vinegar helps the soup retain its red color.
Simmer the soup
25 minPour in the water, add the potatoes, bay leaves, salt, and pepper, and simmer for about 20 minutes, until the potatoes are tender.
Season and serve
5 minStir in the pressed garlic and marjoram, remove from the heat, and discard the bay leaves. Serve with a spoonful of sour cream and dill.
Tip: Add the vinegar as soon as you add the beets; without the acidity, the soup will turn brown, and its flavor becomes even fuller the next day. Add ground caraway or horseradish to taste directly to your bowl.
Nutrition facts
Approximate values per serving, calculated from the ingredients
- Energy
- 206 kcal
- Protein
- 4.3 g
- Carbohydrates
- 27 g
- of which sugars
- 10 g
- Fat
- 9.6 g
- of which saturates
- 3.7 g
- Fiber
- 4.9 g
- Salt
- 1.2 g
Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.
This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Cviklová polievka so zemiakmi: červená ako boršč, no bez mäsa a kapusty, farbu drží ocot
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