Beet is a vegetable with a juicy root of a round or conical form with a dark red/purple color. When this veggie is cut in half and viewed in cross-section, you can see light circles. From the very outset people valued only leaves of this vegetable, not the roots. In the Ancient Rome they ate beet leaves soaked in wine and topped with pepper. Romans even paid a tribute to their owners with beetroot. To Ukraine beetroot was brought from Byzantium at the time of Kyivan Rus. This vegetable has...
Vinegret with Mushrooms
Learn how to make this colorful and nutritious beetroot salad. It tastes as stunning as it looks. The recipe for vinegret features such healthy ingredients as carrot, potato, and onion. Here boiled vegetables are perfectly combined with pickled cucumber, sour cabbage, and marinated mushrooms, which adds savoriness to the salad. You can enjoy this sophisticated salad on its own or you may serve it with some meat/fish dish. Ingredients: 1 carrot 1 potato 1/2 bulb onion 1 medium beetroot 1 tbsp vegetable oil 1-2 tbsp sour cabbage 1/2 pickled cucumber...
Quick Red Borsch
If you would like to make a Ukrainian borsch but don’t want to spend much time on cooking, then this recipe is just for you. This borsch can be cooked very quickly but it is no less tasty than any other variations of the Ukrainian borsch. The main thing which you need to do is to wash and peel all the vegetables and cut chicken. Then combine the ingredients and boil them until done. Everything is very simple! Ingredients: 1 carrot 4 beetroots 1 bulb onion 2 chicken fillets 400...