Country Style Borscht
This classic recipe for Country Style Borscht tastes just like the borscht Grandma made. This beet soup is so flavourful and a family favourite soup recipe.
To make delicious Country Style Borscht be sure to start with garden fresh simple ingredients of red beets, cabbage, carrots and potatoes. The Homemade Chicken Stock I used in this recipe made this soup even tastier. You can use store bought, but homemade stock is easy to make and loaded with flavor.
Ukrainian Borscht is considered to be the original recipe for traditional borscht but over the years there have been many adaptations to this delightful beet soup. Some recipes include meat or bone marrow, poultry or even beans. My favourite recipe is meatless prepared with chicken stock and loaded with fresh beets, cabbage, carrots and potatoes. Fresh dill is a must to add sensational flavour to this soup.
Borscht is super healthy and nutritious and this meatless version is so hearty!
Country Style Borscht
Ingredients
- 5 cups red beets cubed
- 1/2 medium green cabbage shredded
- 1 1/2 cups diced carrots
- 3 cups potatoes cubed
- 1 cup onion finely diced
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp butter
- 6 tbsp tomato paste
- 8 cups chicken stock
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 2 tbsp white vinegar
- 1/4 cup fresh dill chopped
- 1/2 tsp fresh ground pepper
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- 1/2 cup sour cream
Instructions
- In large soup pot heat olive oil and butter.
- Add beets, cabbage, carrots, potatoes and onions, sauté until tender, about 15 minutes.
- Stir in tomato paste and chicken stock.
- Add bay leaves.
- Season with salt and pepper. Taste to season as amount of salt used can vary depending on how salty broth is.
- Bring to boil, then reduce heat to low.
- Cover and simmer for 1 hour.
- Add sugar, vinegar and dill.
- Simmer for additional 15 minutes.
- Serve with dollop of sour cream.
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The colour is just so gorgeous it’s irresistible! I love that you’ve share a classic country-style version!
Thank you Nagi.
Delicious, simple and healthy! Great late summer and fall recipe. Thanks!
Your welcome Elizabeth.
Hi, Laureen. I’ve never cooked borsht soup before but my wife has been bugging me to give it a try. We both love beets! I do pretty well all the cooking. Perhaps this is a really naive question – do you peel the beets before cutting them up? Thanks. Looks delicious!
Hi Dave, wonderful that you cook, I do wish my hubby did some, Yes you do peel the beets.
You can boil in water for awhile so you can just peel the skin off first. Just like making pickled beets. Or, Ijustuse a peeler and cut up with a very sharp knife.
I have a dedicated vegetable scrubbie now. Insteadof peeling the beets I just scrub the outer skin until the rough/brownish parts are gone. Rationale is that the skin has tons of nutrients and it is quicker/easier than peeling them. Just don’t use the scrubbie for cleaning dishes etc.
thanks for the great tip Kendra.
I like it better without the sugar( personal preference) and next time think I will also leave out the potato; but very nice recipe very similar to a fave from an elderly Ukraninn friend’s! ?
Adapting a recipe to your liking is the way to go with any recipe 🙂
I love this recipe so much! This is the third time I am making this soup and it is almost exactly like my mother’s (she uses beef and beef stock in hers). I also love to add garlic, but otherwise this is very much a true Russian borscht as well! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you Christina, that’s quite a compliment to be almost like your Mother’s. I love recipes that bring back special memories 🙂
I used this recipe every fall for my fresh beets and fresh produce from friends. I can’t tell you how amazing it is!! I don’t like cabbage so I omit that but everything else is as is. I also half way cook the beets so I don’t have to peel them!! Enjoy
Excellent soup, made exactly the way you have it. I think the potatoes melt the flavours together.
Simple and delicious, I use heavy surgical gloves and peel beets with a pairing knife, cut up on glass cutting board for easy clean up. I always put in extra cabbage and beets and my family and friends love this meal. I also cook any meet I want to use separately and adding at the end so it doesn’t overpower the fantastic beet taste.