Whip up this stunning Red Beet and Cabbage Borscht for those late night Autumn family dinners. It’s absolutely delicious!
Growing or Selecting Your Borscht Beets
As soon as the beets leave the garden soil, the kids started requesting home made borscht. The year I planted ‘candy cane’ or Chioggia beets, they were disappointed to learn that they weren’t destined for borscht. Chioggia beets are equally delicious and much less messy than regular beets. I do suspect that they would probably make one strange looking bowl of borscht. After much begging, I finally gave in and bought a bag of red beets from the Farmer’s Market, along with some oh-so-seasonal purple cabbage.
Borscht is Just Not the Same Without Fresh Dill
Finding the fresh dill so late in the season is sometimes an issue. My mother would just shake her head and roll her eyes at me if she was reading this; she has so much dill in her garden! After much searching I ended up finding some fresh dill at the grocery store. While I do prefer fresh dill, I have used dried dill (thanks mom!) in this recipe before and it is still a very tasty soup.
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A Late Dinner Means a Lighter Dinner
With all our scheduled family activities, dinners are usually late during the week. Sports are very demanding and it is difficult for the kids to eat a large dinner before all that physical activity. On most days, they just end up having a quick snack when they come home from school. Then we all eat a lighter dinner much later, around 9 pm most nights. Having dinner so late in the late fall and winter complicates taking food photographs. Sigh. It’s almost time to set up the soft light box again.
On borscht nights everyone looks forward to this special treat when they got home. They reminisce about ‘All the Borscht’s they’ve loved before’ and discuss them all on the ride home. They all agree that they prefer their borscht chunky with a thin broth, just like I make it. Borscht doesn’t take much time at all to make so really it is something we should all enjoy more often.
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Red Beet and Cabbage Borscht
Whip up this stunning Red Beet and Cabbage Borscht for those late night Autumn family dinners. It's absolutely delicious!
Ingredients
- 6 new beets (about 2 inches diameter); peeled and grated
- 1 medium onion; diced
- 1 Tablespoon olive oil
- 1 tomato; diced
- 2 Tablespoons of water
- 2 Tablespoons balsamic vinegar OR juice of ½ lemon
- 8 cups stock (beef, chicken, or vegetable)
- 1 Tablespoon of salt
- 7 new baby red potatoes, thinly sliced
- ½ red cabbage; shredded
- 3 Tablespoons fresh baby dill
- pepper to taste
Instructions
- Heat up olive oil in a large pot over medium/high heat. Sauté onions until translucent. Add grated beets and diced tomatoes.
- Add 2 Tablespoons of water and vinegar/lemon juice to the vegetables and stir.
- Reduce the heat to low, cover the pot and simmer for 20 min.
- Add the stock to the shredded vegetables.
- Bring to a boil and add 1 Tablespoon of salt.
- Add sliced potatoes and shredded cabbage to the soup and cook for 10 minutes.
- Finally add baby dill to the soup and continue cooking for another 5-10 minutes.
- Remove borscht from the heat. It is now ready to be served.
- When serving borscht, add sour cream, pepper, and fresh herbs to individual bowls.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
4Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 766Total Fat: 10gSaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 7gCholesterol: 14mgSodium: 2440mgCarbohydrates: 142gFiber: 13gSugar: 32gProtein: 27g
Nutritional calculation was provided by Nutritionix and is an estimation only. For special diets or medical issues please use your preferred calculator.
This recipe is perfection. No one can publish another borscht recipe this year! This is nearly identical to my family recipe and if I close my eyes I can just smell it bubbling away on my mom’s stove top. Your shots are amazing here. That photo of the borscht in the bowl says so much to me. I am in love!
Aw, I’m so happy you like it! There’s something so great about a good bowl of borscht…it’s comforting AND good for you at the same time. IMHO dill is an absolute necessity in a good borscht.
I love the fact your kids are asking for borscht. I gotta make this!