December 26, 2024
My own recipe for Ukrainian borsch I mentioned in the second book.
This is the recipe for the borsch from Cafe Halushka, where Halia and Solomia had a feast.
I traveled to many parts of Ukraine and tried different recipes for our beloved dish. I am very frivolous with cooking borsch - as long as you can reach this famous balance of sweet, sour, and salty, you are fine. So here is my recipe for borsch - one of the thousands of them:
- baked beets 2-3 medium size
- Shredded carrots sauteed with one shredded parsnip, cubed onions, and garlic.
- One small cauliflower florets - charred instead of regular cabbage.
- Two red potatoes cubed medium.
- Salt, pepper, thyme, and herbs to your taste.
- White canned beans with aquafaba for the taste.
- The base is chicken broth slowly cooked , then meat removed of the bones and added to the borsch in the end of the cooking.
- The process is the same . The only raw ingredient is potato. It goes first, then I add the rest of the vegetables and let them slowly boil for 10 min. I serve my borsch with sour cream or labneh, toasted Lithuanian rye bread, and thinly sliced salo cured in salt and paprika.