Cooking Borscht • Borscht with Mushrooms and Dried Prunes

Cooking Borscht • Borscht with Mushrooms and Dried Prunes

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Wash dried porcini mushrooms under cold running water, place them into a deep pot, add an onion cut in halves, add cold water and bring to a boil.

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Ingredients

  • Water – 10 cups
  • Dried porcini mushrooms – 1 oz
  • 1 yellow onion
  • Salt – ½ teaspoon
  • Beetroot – 10 oz
  • Fresh Green Cabbage – 10 oz
  • 4 medium potatoes
  • 1 carrot
  • 1 parsley root
  • 2 yellow onions
  • Tomato puree – 4 tablespoons
  • Butter – 2 tablespoons
  • All purpose flour – 2 tablespoons
  • White vinegar – 1 tablespoon
  • 4-5 peppercorns
  • 2 bay leaves
  • Salt – to taste
  • Chopped parsley
  • When stewing the beetroon you can add apple cider vinegar or even a tiny pinch of citric acid instead of white vinegar. Or you can use beetroot brew instead of broth and vinegar.
  • If you’re fasting, substitute butter for vegetable oil.
  • You can cook this borscht without flour.
  • You can add 2-3 cloves of garlic if you want, too. Just mince it and add it to the pot with borscht before turning the heat off.

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