Borscht Soup

Total Time: 3 hrs 48 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 3 hrs 18 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 1/2 lbs bacon
• 2 cups mixed vegetables (carrots, beans, cabbage celery, corn etc)
• 2 cups diced potatoes
• 1 1/2 lbs meat, fattish or 1 1/2 lbs ribs
• 4 beetroots, unpeeled and washed
• 2 tablespoons sour cream

Recipe

• 1 boil everything together over a low heat for 2 1/3 to 3 hours.
• 2 whenmeat is tender, take it out and put in potatoes and other vegetables and boil until tender.
• 3 remove the gammon.
• 4 meanwhile in another pot boil the beetroot, but keep the water.
• 5 peel and dice beetroot and add to the vegetables, with the red water from the boiled beetroot.
• 6 do not boil the bortsch after that, just heat it gently.
• 7 cut the gammon into cubes and add to the woup.
• 8 before serving put the sour cream into a turret and pour the soup inches.