Borscht with beet tops

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Products that we will need to prepare borscht with beet tops. Vegetables should be taken only from a young crop.

2. Step 2:

   

   New potatoes, peel, wash, cut into small pieces, put in a saucepan and pour water, about 2.5 liters, put on fire. Add salt to taste.

3. Step 3:

   

   Finely chop the onion, three carrots on a coarse grater.

4. Step 4:

   

   Carrots and onions are stewed in a frying pan with vegetable oil and tomato sauce (tomatoes can be used), 10 minutes, pour stewed vegetables into the boiling borscht.

6. Step 5:

   

   Peel the beets and three on a coarse grater.

7. Step 6:

   

   Cut off the petioles from the beet leaves and cut into pieces, approximately 1 cm each. Put the beets and beet stalks in a frying pan, add 1 tablespoon of vinegar and simmer over low heat under the lid until soft.

8. Step 7:

   

   We cut the beet leaves and put them in borscht with beet tops 10 minutes before the end of cooking.

9. Step 8:

   

   When the borscht is ready, put the stewed beets in it and mix, turn off the fire. It is very important that after you put the beetroot in the borscht, it does not boil, that's when it will be a beautiful red color. Let the borscht brew and you can serve it to the table. Bon appetit!