Simple borscht for winter in jars with cabbage and beets

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make a simple borscht for the winter? Prepare the products. Rinse all vegetables thoroughly under running water.

2. Step 2:

   

   Peel beets and carrots with a vegetable peeler and grate them on a coarse grater.

3. Step 3:

   

   Chop the white cabbage with a sharp knife or with a special grater.

4. Step 4:

   

   Remove the stalks from tomatoes and cut into medium cubes. You can remove the skin from them beforehand. How easy is it to peel tomatoes? Wash them, make criss-cross incisions on top with a sharp knife. Put it in boiling water for 1-2 minutes. Remove, cool slightly and remove the skin.

6. Step 5:

   

   Peel the onion from the husk. If the bulbs are large, then cut them into half rings, if the onion is small — rings. To avoid irritating the mucous membrane of the eyes when slicing onions, rinse the onion and knife with cold water. The cutting board will not absorb the unpleasant onion smell if you rub it with a piece of lemon before slicing.

7. Step 6:

   

   Take a large saucepan and put all the prepared vegetables into it. Add salt and sugar, pour in vegetable oil and water. Put a pot of vegetables on the fire and cook the vegetables for 20 minutes over medium heat, stirring them from time to time so that they do not burn.

8. Step 7:

   

   Sterilize the jars and lids in advance in any convenient way: in the oven, steamed, in water or even in the microwave. A minute before the end of cooking, pour in the vinegar, mix and immediately put the vegetable stock into sterilized jars. Roll up or twist them with sterile lids. Cool the jars upside down under a blanket. The workpiece is perfectly stored even at room temperature. Enjoy your meal!