Beetroot soup is a dish that can be served both cold and hot. There are even special varied recipes for making this soup. In beetroot recipe, beets are a must. On an exhausted summer day, you can cook cold beetroot. Consider some options where the beetroot recipe will be a good dish for the family table.
For this soup you will need the following ingredients - 1 or 2 pieces of beets (depending on size), 1 carrot, 6 fresh cucumbers, 100 grams of green onions, 100 grams of dill, 3 liters of water, 200 grams of tofu or 3 eggs.
Peel, rinse and grate beets and carrots. Pour water into a pot and bring to a boil. Dip the beets and carrots in the water and cook for about 10 minutes. Cool the prepared red broth well and then refrigerate. Meanwhile, finely chop the dill, tofu, cucumbers and onions, mix everything. If there are eggs instead of tofu, then they need to be boiled and finely chopped. If you want, you can add radish and potatoes to make the soup hearty. To do this, boil and finely chop the potatoes, it is better to cook in their skins. Salt the resulting mixture and pour in the finished broth.
There is beetroot on kefir the cold recipe, which is so necessary on a hot summer day. To do this, you need: boiled or baked beets - 4 pieces, 2 liters of kefir, boiled chicken egg - 4 or 5 pieces, 1 bunch of radishes, 5 pieces of fresh cucumbers, boiled beef or boiled sausage about 200 grams, 1 bunch of dill and green onion , salt and pepper.
Cut beef or sausage into small cubes, also cut eggs and cucumbers. Add radish and greens to this composition, previously finely chopped. Mix everything properly. For pouring, it is necessary to grate beets on a medium grater, add salt, pepper and pour kefir. In order for the beets to be sufficiently chopped, the filling must be mixed with a blender. Add the prepared filling to the pan with the main mass and mix. The soup is ready.
There is another beetroot soup recipe that is made on kefir. This will require: 3 pieces of potatoes, a few pieces of cucumbers (optional), 2 radishes, 2 beets, 2 eggs, kefir and spices (salt, sugar, lemon juice and pepper).
Grate beets and fry in a pan. Add sugar and a little bit of water to the beets . Then add lemon juice to this mixture and stew the cabbage until cooked. Boil the potatoes and grate with cucumbers, boiled eggs and radishes. Chop finely green onions. Next, you need to combine the lemon juice and kefir, salt and add salt and pepper to taste. Mix everything thoroughly. You can immediately mix the vegetable mass with kefir, you can first spread the prepared composition on plates, and only then season with kefir mass.
There is a beetroot home-made recipe. It is called "home beetroot." Ingredients - 500 grams of beets, 1 carrot, 2 onions, 2 potatoes, 3 cloves of garlic, 1 tablespoon of sugar, half a lemon, 2 bay leaves, 3 peppers, 100 grams of sour cream, dill and salt - to taste, 3 tablespoons butter.
Peel, rinse and cook beets until cooked. Remove it from the broth and cool. Peel and squeeze the garlic using a garlic press. Combine the garlic and beets. Rinse the potatoes and peel them and cut them into cubes, put the potatoes in a decoction and cook over low heat until cooked. Peel the carrots and onions, rinse and chop finely, and then fry in butter. In the broth where the beets were cooked, put the fried vegetables, the beets to be grated, garlic, bay leaf and pepper. Squeeze juice from lemon, add it to soup. Salt and sugar. Stir the whole mass and bring to a boil. When the soup boils, reduce the heat and cook for another 10 minutes. It is recommended to cool.
Any beetroot is recommended to serve with sour cream and garnish with fresh herbs.