Monday, April 21, 2008


“Russian Woman’s World”

“Borsh”

Russian

Margarita Polyakova

In my country there are many different holidays, and people cook usually special celebration’s food for family, friends, and colleagues.

But now I’ll talk about famous Russian food, which we don’t cook for holidays, but for every day.

About this recipe I know from my Mom. This kind of food is traditional Russian food and everybody loves it. Its name is ‘Borsh’.

Preparation Time: 20 minutes.

Cooking Time: 1 hour, 20 minutes.

Serves: 8

Ingredients:

3 liters water + 1 pound meat

½ pound potato

½ cabbage

2 carrot

2 carrot

½ onion

Dill

Salt by taste

Preparation:

In cool water, you need to put slices of meat and to boil one hour.

In this time it is necessary to peel skin from potatoes, carrots, onions, and cabbage.

Potatoes need to be sliced and boiled 3 minutes.

Then grate onions, carrots, and tomatoes to fry with oil within 10 minutes on the pan.

Then fry vegetables to put in the boiling water with meat and to add dill, pepper and salt by taste and through 3 minutes turn off.

Ready! Cook ‘Borsh’ with pleasure, I think you’ll be very glad to eat this nice food!

Cook’s tip: Serve it with mayonnaise and eat hot!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Good job!!!!!!!!! I like Borsh and I cook it too.