The first dish is one of the main places in the human diet. What a delicious and nutritious dinner without a rich Ukrainian borsch? It usually takes a lot of time to cook it, but the result is worth it. If you don’t want to stand by the stove for a long time in order to pamper your family with a delicious dinner, then a miracle of technology - a multicooker will come to the rescue. With its help, without much effort, you can cook borsch. If you do not know how to cook this dish in a slow cooker, then this article will come in handy. Your attention is invited to several options for cooking borsch in different slow cookers.
Beetroot soup with beetroot
The classic recipe for cooking borsch is not complete without tomatoes or tomato paste. The second cooking method, based on beets, is in no way inferior to the traditional recipe.
Plus, beets during cooking, like cabbage, retain all their useful properties, so borsch is not only tasty, but also a healthy dish.
Ingredients
In order to answer the question of how to cook beetroot soup with beets in a slow cooker, we need to prepare a set of the following products:
- a pair of medium-sized onions;
- 300 grams of beef for cooking broth;
- one carrot;
- a few tablespoons of cooking oil for frying;
- one tablespoon of 9% vinegar;
- a couple of small beets;
- 300 grams of cabbage;
- several pieces of potatoes;
- half a teaspoon of turmeric;
- a few cloves of garlic;
- one bunch of fresh herbs, better than dill;
- salt, ground pepper (white or black can be), allspice, a few pieces of bay leaf.
How to cook beetroot soup in a pan-cooker "Panasonic" with beets
Each slow cooker has excellent functions from each other, so consider a recipe for cooking borsch in several.
Many of us do not know how to cook borsch in a slow cooker. But there are several rules that must be observed.
So, at the first stage of cooking, you need to prepare the products.
We clean the beets, carrots, potatoes and onions and rinse well under running water. We leave potatoes flooded with water so that it does not darken. Rub carrots and beets on a medium grater.
Do not forget about the broth. You can cook it both in beef and pork. It's a matter of taste. But, of course, it is better that he was on pork, or you can cook fry in fat. So, provided that the broth is already ready, proceed to cooking the frying.
In a slow cooker, pour vegetable oil and send carrots with onions into it. Cut the onion into small cubes. We set the "Fry" mode. And leave for about 10 minutes. Vegetables should acquire a golden color.
After that, add half the grated beets. Salt, pepper, add turmeric, chopped garlic. All the ingredients are mixed well and left at the same mode for another 5 minutes.
After our frying is ready, set it aside until it is needed.
At the next stage, we take the finished broth, add bay leaf and leave in the slow cooker in the “Soup” mode. After the broth boils, add the diced potatoes and the remaining beets. Add a tablespoon of vinegar to this. This must be done at the same time as beets so that they do not lose their color when cooking. Cook until potatoes are ready. It takes about 40 minutes. If you want to speed up the process, you can put the multicooker into the “Porridge” mode. Then the time for cooking potatoes will be reduced to 20 minutes.
After the potatoes are ready, add the ready-made frying to it. We shred the cabbage in the usual way and also send it into the multicooker bowl. Cook for another 20 minutes.
Greens must be washed and finely chopped. Add it for 10 minutes before turning off the multicooker. Before serving, do not forget to add pieces of meat to the borsch. You can sprinkle with fresh herbs and add sour cream.
We hope this section helped to figure out how to cook beetroot soup in a multicooker based on beets without tomatoes and tomato paste.
Borsch in the Polaris crock-pot
Cooking real Ukrainian borsch is a challenge for any housewife. Everyone wants to create their own unique dish. Therefore, many believe that this national dish cannot be cooked deliciously in a slow cooker. And what with the borscht cooked on the stove can only be compared with what is cooked in the villages in the oven. But not many people know the secret of cooking borsch in a slow cooker so that it tastes like the one that is usually cooked in the oven.
Ingredients
To prepare it, we need:
- 300 grams of pork;
- 0.5 kilograms of potatoes;
- 300 grams of cabbage;
- One carrot;
- A pair of medium-sized onions;
- A pair of tablespoons of refined vegetable oil;
- the same number of spoons of tomato paste;
- a few cloves of garlic;
- half a can of red canned beans;
- a couple of small beets or one large;
- half a teaspoon of salt;
- a quarter of a teaspoon of ground pepper;
- a couple of liters of water for cooking the broth.
Cooking process
We’ll try to figure out how to cook borsch in the Polaris slow cooker so that it tastes like a dish cooked in an oven.
To start, we prepare all the products. And start with the meat. Rinse the pork well and remove excess veins. Dry with a paper towel and send to the slow cooker for frying mode. First, pour vegetable oil on the bottom of the multicooker bowl. Fry for no more than 7 minutes.
While the meat is grilling, prepare the vegetables. Peel and rinse carrots, potatoes, beets and onions under running water. We leave potatoes in water.
Cut the carrots and onions into small cubes and send them to fry the pork. Mix all the ingredients and leave for about 5 minutes.
After that, send the diced potatoes to the slow cooker. Send half the canned beans here. After that, you can add tomato paste and spices.
Now you can fill the vegetables with pre-prepared boiled water. Mix all the ingredients and set the crock-pot to the “Soup” mode.
Now we will deal with the main ingredient of the dish - beets, on which the taste of borscht will depend.
We clean and cut it arbitrarily into small pieces so that it cooks as quickly as possible. In the multicooker, set the basket for cooking products for a couple and put the beets on it. Turn on the “Soup” mode and set the timer for 1 hour, then let it cool and grate it. Add beets to the borsch.
Add water if necessary. Peel and cut the garlic into small slices, add to the borsch.
Bring the vegetables to a boil and add the remaining spices. The slow cooker switch to the "Heating" mode for 15 minutes. Everything, the dish is ready and you can serve it on the table. Before serving, you can sprinkle with fresh herbs. Some add a few slices of lemon.
Now, knowing how to cook borsch in a slow cooker according to the recipe of our grandmothers, each housewife can change it at her discretion. The main thing is to leave unchanged beetroot cooking technology.
A simple recipe for borsch in the Redmond multicooker
This cooking recipe is more saturated and nutritious, since it contains beets and tomatoes. We choose beef for meat, although it can be replaced with pork if desired. Some housewives cook borscht from turkey or chicken. But in this case, it turns out dietary.
Ingredients
We need the following products:
- several potato tubers;
- 0.5 kilograms of white cabbage;
- 0.5 kilograms of beef;
- 2 tomatoes;
- one bell pepper;
- a few cloves of garlic;
- one carrot;
- one onion head;
- a pair of beet heads;
- a couple of tablespoons of tomato paste;
- a few tablespoons of vegetable oil;
- one bunch of fresh dill;
- a couple of liters of hot water;
- salt and spices as you wish;
- a few leaves of bay leaf to taste.
How to cook borsch in the Redmond multicooker
Cut the onion into half rings. In a slow cooker, pour a couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil and send for 15 minutes to the "Frying" mode. The onion should become transparent.
Peel and dice the carrots. Finely chop the garlic. We send both ingredients to the onion and fry for another 5 minutes.
We wash and peel the beef, cut into small cubes and send to the ready-made vegetables. Cook another 10 minutes.
We clean the beets and rub on a medium grater, we send them to fry in a slow cooker. In the meantime, peel and cut the bell peppers into strips and send them to fry the vegetables.
Blanch the tomatoes, cut into cubes or rub on a medium grater. Sent to a slow cooker, add tomato paste and spices. While all the ingredients are fried, chop the cabbage, cut the potatoes into cubes. We send both ingredients to the other vegetables and fill everything with water. Cover and turn on the “Soup” mode for 1 hour.
After the timer has worked, let the dish brew for some more time, and only then can it be served on the table.
The article examined several options for how to cook a delicious borsch in a slow cooker. Choose any, experiment, surprise your family and friends. Enjoy your meal.