‘Borsch’, by Yulia Vasilyeva

Pour 3 litres of water into the saucepan. Then put into the water some meat for about 1 hour and a half it should be simmered, if it is beef, or 1 hour if it is pork.

After that the meat should be taken out. Then add cut pieces of 2 potatoes. it is better if it is cut into little squares and put it into stock. Then wait a time, when the potatoes boiled.

While waiting, take carrot, 1 beet, 1 or a half of an onion. The carrot and beet is grated, whereas an onion is diced. All these ingredients are put into the frying-pan, which also has olive oil in it, and heated. It should be fried till it becomes a bit golden.

In addition, into these ingredients are put 1.5 spoons of ketchup. The potatoes have been prepared, put everything which is in the frying pan into the stock. All this should be boiled 2 min. You should add salt to taste.

Then put a sliced cabbage the size of it might be 1/8 of the whole, if it is big. Then you put into this all the meat and all should be boiled until tender.

Have a good appetite!

I think you will enjoy it!!!