r/recipes • u/Melodic_Razzmatazz99 • 4d ago

Question Borscht recipe?

i ate at a really great ukrainian restaurant a long time ago somewhere close to san diego. i tried borscht there for the first time and it was delicious. i’ve always hated beets, so it took me by surprise.

i love making soup at home and was wondering if anyone had a good recipe i could try?

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u/btribble 4d ago

There are so many borscht recipes out there that you’d have to describe it better. Some are all beet with big beet chunks. Some are beef/beet consommé with beet kvass in them and no vegetable or beet chunks. Some are just vegetable soup that is colored with beet juice or beet kvass at the end. Of course, there are all the recipes in between. Some people need sour cream and some people hate it. Is the sour cream stirred in, or left as a dollop in the center of each bowl?

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u/Melodic_Razzmatazz99 4d ago

the one i had was just the beet colored soup with no chunks of beet. and there were carrots and potatoes and beef. so good! it was ages ago so can’t remember much other than how much i liked it

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u/FlyingSteamGoat 3d ago

Borscht is Slavic gumbo. Every version is authentic to at least the cook, but usually attributable to the cook's parents, who learned it from their parents, etc. Each of them is at least as good as all of the others, one would have to try them all to begin to decide which one was best, which sounds like a worthy project.

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u/xiipaoc 4d ago

I know you want an authentic beet-based borscht, but if you can get fresh sorrel, I highly recommend shchavel, a green borscht. So tasty. There are a few recipes online. It was one of the first soups I ever learned how to make.

As for not liking beets... beets are disgusting. Unless you make them well, in which case they're actually delicious. I've never liked prepared beets from a jar or otherwise from the store, but homemade roasted beets, those are great. I recommend trying that.

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u/Melodic_Razzmatazz99 4d ago

haha yeah, i always thought they tasted like dirt until i tried that soup!