Ukrainian Zelany Borshch
- 3 cups OR
- more chopped sorrel
- 6 cups beef stock
- (chicken
- vegetable)
- 2 tbsp. butter
- 2 onions (chopped)
- 1 carrot (chopped)
- 1 stalk celery (chopped)
- 2 md. potatoes, peeled and diced
- 1 tbsp. flour
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- Salt and pepper
- Chopped dill
- 3 hard cooked eggs sliced (optional)
- Cook the onion in the butter until wilted.
- Add the soup stock and all the vegetables except sorrel.
- Cook until very tender.
- (You may also strain and press the vegetables through a sieve when cooked.)
- Toss in the sorrel and continue cooking for 15 more minutes.
- Blend the flour with the sour cream to a smooth paste, stir into the borshch and bring to a boil.
- Season to taste.
- Add the dill.
- When ready to serve, place half of the hard cooked egg, yolk side up, in the bottom of each soup bowl and fill with the borshch.
- If you wish you can add chopped green onion or chives.
- For additional richness, omit the flour, beat 2 raw egg yolks slightly and blend with the cream.
- Then pour into the borshch and heat without boiling it.
- This is the customary way of dressing up sorrel borshch.
or, sorrel, beef stock, chicken, vegetable, butter, onions, carrot, celery, potatoes, flour, sour cream, salt, dill, eggs
Taken from www.foodgeeks.com/recipes/20103 (may not work)