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Ingredients

• 1 big or 2 small onions chopped
• 1 big or 2 small carrot shredded
• ½ green bell pepper chopped
• ½ red bell pepper chopped
• 1 small raw beet and 1 cooked beet for really red borscht shredded
• 4 cloves garlic finely chopped or crushed
• 8oz. Tomato sauce
• 3 bay leaves
• 8 medium russet potatoes peeled and cut into squares
• ½ of medim size cabbage thinly sliced
• 2/3 cup flat leaf parsley finely chopped (optional)
• 2/3 baby dill finely chopped
• 3 quarts (12 cups) of water,chicken/beef broth with meat
• salt
• pepper
• 3 tablespoons oil