Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
How to cook a hot beetroot classic with meat? Prepare the products. If necessary, defrost the meat by transferring it from the freezer to the bottom shelf of the refrigerator. The neck part of pork, tenderloin is suitable, but it is better to take the meat on the bones, then the taste of the soup will be more saturated. In this case, boil it in a whole piece. When the pork becomes soft, remove it from the pan with a slotted spoon, cut it, removing the bone and return it back to the broth.
Step 2:
Pour clean filtered water into a saucepan. Do not use tap water, as this will negatively affect the taste of the dish. Rinse the pork pulp, dry it, cut off excess fat, films. Cut into small pieces. Transfer to a saucepan. Pour in the ground dry roots (celery root, parsley). Add salt. When it boils, reduce the heat to a minimum and cook for about 40-60 minutes until the pork is ready. Do not forget to remove the resulting foam.
Step 3:
Rinse the peeled onion and knife with cold water, so the onion juice will not irritate the mucous membrane of the eyes. Cut into small cubes. Wash the carrots thoroughly from dirt with a brush. Peel with a knife or vegetable peeler. Also finely cut into cubes. Pour vegetable oil into the frying pan for frying. Warm it up. Fry the onion first until golden, then add the carrots and saute the vegetables over low heat until soft (about 2-3 minutes).
Step 4:
Wash and peel the beets. Cut it into thin cubes. Send it to the vegetable roast. Fry, stirring, for about 5 minutes more, until it softens. To speed up the process, you can use ready-made boiled beets in vacuum packaging. It can not be stewed, but simply cut and add to the soup 5-7 minutes before the end of cooking.
Step 5:
Also wash the bell pepper, dry it with paper towels. Cut in half, remove the middle with the seeds. Cut into strips and send to the frying pan. Add bay leaf, citric acid (at the tip of a teaspoon), tomato sauce, allspice. Fry the vegetables on low heat for about 3 minutes, stirring. Instead of citric acid, you can add a tablespoon of lemon juice.
Step 6:
Pour a glass of boiled water into the pan. Cover with a lid and simmer on low heat for about 10 minutes after boiling.
Step 7:
When the vegetables are steamed and become soft, send them to a saucepan with meat broth.
Step 8:
Wash and peel the potatoes. Cut into small cubes. Add to the soup. Cook it over medium heat until tender, about 10 minutes (from pressing a spoon, it should break easily).
Step 9:
Peel the garlic. Pass it through a garlic press, add it to the soup. Cook for another 3 minutes.
Step 10:
Wash, dry fresh herbs, chop with a knife. Put it in a saucepan. Or add dry dill. Mix it up. Turn off the heat and let the beetroot brew for 15 minutes under the lid.
Step 11:
Now pour on plates, sprinkle with chopped fresh herbs (dill, parsley, green onion feathers), add a spoonful of sour cream (any fat content) and serve. Bon appetit!
Beetroot broth can be cooked not only on pork, but also beef, chicken fillet. Please note that the cooking time will change. For example, beef will cook longer than pork, and chicken less.
Tomato paste can be replaced with tomato juice, sauce or grated or minced fresh tomatoes.
Just before serving, you can put a quarter of a hard-boiled egg in each plate with beetroot.
Important! Regardless of whether the amount of water for soup is indicated in the recipe or not, it is best to focus on your own preferences (thick or more liquid soup you like), as well as on the size of your pan and the products taken for cooking. Do not forget that the author has his own view on the amount of meat, potatoes, cereals and other ingredients in the soup, which may not coincide with yours. In practice, this means that if you are cooking for the first time, you should not cook a whole pot at once. Make a soup for tasting - for one or two people. To do this, reduce the amount of all ingredients according to the recipe to 1-2 servings, and take the amount of water from the calculation: from one cup per serving - if the soup is very thick, to 1.5-2 cups - if more liquid. Do not forget to take into account that part of the liquid will boil off during the cooking process. After tasting a small portion of soup, you can adjust both the amount of liquid and the proportions of ingredients to your taste. In the future, like most experienced housewives, you will be able to pour water for soup and lay the ingredients “by eye".
How to choose the perfect pot for soup, porridge or pickling cucumbers read the article about pots.
Use oil with a high smoking temperature for frying! Any oils are useful only until a certain temperature is reached - the point of smoking, at which the oil begins to burn and toxic substances, including carcinogens, are formed in it.
Unrefined oils, with rare exceptions, have a low smoking point. There are a lot of unfiltered organic particles in them, which quickly begin to burn.
Refined oils are more resistant to heating, and their smoking point is higher. If you are going to cook food in the oven, on a frying pan or grill, make sure that you use oil with a high smoking point. The most common of the oils with a high smoking point: refined varieties of sunflower, olive and grape.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Ripe potatoes - 80 kcal/100g
- Baked potatoes - 70 kcal/100g
- Mashed potatoes - 380 kcal/100g
- Boiled potatoes - 82 kcal/100g
- Potatoes in uniform - 74 kcal/100g
- Fried potatoes - 192 kcal/100g
- Pork fat - 333 kcal/100g
- Pork meat - 357 kcal/100g
- Pork - lean roast - 184 kcal/100g
- Pork chop on a bone - 537 kcal/100g
- Pork - schnitzel - 352 kcal/100g
- Pork shoulder - 593 kcal/100g
- Boar's leg - 113 kcal/100g
- Pork - 259 kcal/100g
- Beetroot - 40 kcal/100g
- Dried beetroot - 278 kcal/100g
- Boiled beets - 49 kcal/100g
- Sweet pepper - 27 kcal/100g
- Carrots - 33 kcal/100g
- Dried carrots - 275 kcal/100g
- Boiled carrots - 25 kcal/100g
- Garlic - 143 kcal/100g
- Bay leaf - 313 kcal/100g
- Vegetable oil - 873 kcal/100g
- Citric acid - 0 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Onion - 41 kcal/100g
- Fresh frozen soup greens in a package - 41 kcal/100g
- Greenery - 41 kcal/100g
- Hot tomato sauce - 99 kcal/100g
- Allspice - 263 kcal/100g
- Roots - 32 kcal/100g