Cooking Borscht • Green Borscht with Pork Ribs

Ingredients

• Water – 8 cups
• Pork ribs – 14 oz
• Beetroot – 5 oz
• 3 medium potatoes
• 2 medium carrots
• 1 parsley root
• 1 celery root
• 1 parsnip root
• 2 medium yellow onions
• Sorrel – 7 oz
• Butter OR vegetable oil – 5 tablespoons
• Sugar – 2 tablespoons
• White vinegar – 1 tablespoon
• 1/4 lemon for juicing
• Chopped green onion – 4 tablespoons
• Chopped dill – 4 tablespoons
• Salt – to taste
• Sour cream
• Chopped dill
• 2 eggs
• You can use the same amount of spinach instead of sorrel.
• If you are using sorrel for this recipe you can skip adding lemon juice. If you are using spinach lemon juice is absolutely necessary.