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Cold Beet Soup (Svekolnik)

A great recipe for a refreshing summer first course — highly recommended! Still shudder remembering the summer heat — those days when you couldn't face anything hot or meaty and just wanted to drink? Here's a simple, no-fuss recipe that gets me through the hot weather every year. It'll do the same for you.

ReveRita

Recipe author

Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Beets

Eggs

Lemon

0.5

Cucumbers

Radishes

Dill

Parsley

Green onion

100

Salt

Sugar

Water

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 17 % 1 g

Fats 0 % 0 g

Carbohydrates 83 % 5 g

24 kcal

GI: 20 / 0 / 80

Cooking method

Cooking time: 40 min

Step 1:

The ingredients. Let's welcome the coming summer with a big pot of cold beet soup waiting in the fridge — it quenches your thirst beautifully and cools you down in the summer heat.
Step 2:

Rinse the beets thoroughly under running water.
Step 3:

Trim off the greens and put the beets on to cook — half an hour is plenty. As they cook, squeeze in half a lemon; the beets really need that juice. Take the finished cooking liquid off the stove, salt it while it's hot, and add a spoonful of sugar. Lift out the beets and let them cool.
Step 4:

Meanwhile, boil a couple of eggs and cut the cucumbers and radishes into thin strips.
Step 5:

Peel the cooled beets and grate them on the fine side of a box grater. Do the same with the hard-boiled eggs.
Step 6:

Season with salt.
Step 7:

Combine all the ingredients in the beet cooking liquid and taste.
Step 8:

Something missing?
Step 9:

Mix everything together.
Step 10:

Add the parsley, green onion, and finely chopped dill.
Step 11:

Now there's just a little left to do — perfect the flavor with salt and lemon juice.
Step 12:

Then chill it in the fridge until your heat-weary family gets home — that's when you'll really make their day. You can finish the cold beet soup with a dollop of fresh sour cream or mayonnaise.

And just think how many vitamins this cold beet soup packs! Picture coming home from the market with a whole bag of fresh herbs, juicy young beets, cucumbers, and radishes...