Ted's 50 Minute Vegetable Borscht
photo by Bergy
- Ready In:
- 1hr 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Serves:
-
8
ingredients
- 15 cups water
- 2 onions, large
- 1 lb butter
- 2 stalks celery, with tops
- 1 (688 ml) can tomatoes with juice, chop tomatoes
- 8 potatoes, medium size
- 2 large carrots
- 1 medium green cabbage
- 1⁄2 pint cream
- 1 large green pepper
- 1 beet, cleaned,left whole
- 3 green onions, chopped
- 3 tablespoons fresh dill, chopped
directions
- Bring water to boil in a large pot.
- Prepare all your vegetables.
- Use Food processor as a short cut.
- Clean& chop 2 onions keep them separate.
- Clean& Chop 2 stalks of celery, keep separate, chop leaves too.
- 8 Potatoes, peeled, 4 cut in half and 4 fine diced, keep separate.
- 2 carrots, finely chopped.
- 1 cabbage, chopped separated into 2 piles.
- 1 Green Pepper seeds& membrane removed, chopped.
- In a large frypan over low heat melt 1/4 lb butter.
- Saute 1 chopped onion, 1 stalk of chopped celery until the onion is light brown.
- Add 1 cup of tomato with some juice, simmer 10 minutes.
- Pour ingredients from the fry pan into the pot.
- Add to the pot the half cut potatoes carrots, second stalk of celery, celery leaves, 1/2 of the cabbage.
- Salt to taste.
- Simmer.
- Melt 1/4 lb butter in fry pan, saute remaining onion& other half of the cabbage apprx 10 minutes, add remaining tomatoes simmer 15 minutes.
- Pour contents from fry pan into pot, add the beet and green pepper Add diced potatoes.
- Remove the halved potatoes from the pot, mash with 1/4 lb butter, 1/2 pint of cream add pepper, mix well.
- Add mashed potatoes back to the pot stir and bring to a boil but do not boil.
- Light simmer for 5 minutes.
- Remove the beet when your Borscht is a lovely pink color, save it for another use.
- Serve in bowls sprinkle with chopped green onions and dill.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Bergy
Small town in the Okanagan, B.C.
On January 10 2010 I will celebrate 9 years of Life with Zaar. I can't imagine being without it! It has become part of my daily routine.
I feel very privileged to be one of the hosts on the Photo Forum. Taking photos of my culinary efforts is a full time hobby and I love it. My friends all know what to expect when they come to dinner "Are you finished taking pictures?" or "Did you get a photo of so & so?" I never let them wait too long and the food is NEVER cold! I now have over 6000 photos on Zaar - some fairly good and some definitely not so good. I am happy to say that practice does help.
My roots are in Vancouver BC Canada - a very beautiful city that holds many wonderful memories for me. In 1990, I decided that for my retirement years I may want to settle in a smaller community and found a slice of heaven in the North Okanagan B.C. I love living here but every once in a while I miss the bright city lights, the Broadway shows and some of the small wonderful ethnic restaurants that Vancouver abounds in. That is easily resolved. I just take a trip to the coast, visit with friends for a weekend see a show and feast on Dim Sum or other specialty foods.
I am getting a bit long in the tooth but was a very adventurous person. I have river rafted Hell's Gate on the Fraser river, been up in a glider over Hawaii (no not a Hang Glider!), gone hot air ballooning in the Napa Valley & the Fraser Valley, driven dune buggies on the dunes in Oregon, Para sailing in Mexico and tried many other adventurous, challenging, fun things. I have yet to try bungee jumping or sky diving. I may do them yet. I love to travel and experience other cultures. Mexco has been a favorite haunt. I have visited that lovely country many many times. Australia is another favorite as is England!
In the past 16 months I have taken off 61 pounds and feel wonderful. I am off all medications and all systems are GO! In years I may be 79 but in spirit I am still in my forties. We are only as old as we allow ourselves to feel. Always think positive. Do something a bit challenging every day & always do something silly every day. Be a kid again! Laugh every day - it is internal jogging.
Here are a few of my photos
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