Borscht
This recipe is from Ruby, who can be found here!
Ingredients:
- 250 g of pork bones or pork ribs
- 2 kg of water
- 1/2 of a teaspoon of salt
- 4 medium potatoes (600 g)
- 2 medium carrots (250 g)
- 1/4 of a really small cabbage (250 g)
- 1 small beetroot (100 g)
- 1/2 of a medium onion (50 g)
- Vegetable oil for frying
Instructions:
- Put the salt, the pork bones, and the water into a boiling pan.
- Bring the water to a boil on high heat.
- Switch to medium heat and close the lid while leaving it a tiny bit open.
- Wait for 30 miniutes.
- Purify the broth.
- Grate the carrots, the beetroot, and the onion.
- Chop the cabbage into small pieces.
- Chop the potatoes into 1 cm wide stick-shaped pieces crosswise.
- Fry the carrots, the beetroot, and the onion on medium-low heat with oil for 15 minutes.
- Mix the fried vegetables, the potatoes, and the cabbage with the broth.
- Bring the broth to a boil again.
- Switch to low heat and close the lid completely.
- Wait for 1.5 hours.
- Serve as-is or with mayonnaise. (The final product should be orange, not red)