Meatless borscht with porcini mushrooms: share the easiest recipe

Borscht is a traditional Ukrainian dish based on cabbage, vegetables, meat or vegetable broth, beans, spices and tomato paste. It is worth noting that this dish is often prepared with sprat and mushrooms - lean borscht, served without sour cream.

Cook Mykola Lyulko shared in Instagram a recipe for delicious borscht with porcini mushrooms, which will surprise you with its rich taste and aroma.

Ingredients:

• Dried white mushrooms - 200 g
• Smoked chicken wings - 800 g

• Water - 6000 ml
• Potatoes - 500 g
• Cabbage - 800 g

• Onion - 200 g
• Carrots - 200 g

• Frying oil 80 ml
• Beet - 600 g
• Tomato paste - 150 g

• Sugar - 130 g
• Salt - 60 g

• Laurel leaf - 5 pcs.
• Garlic - 60 g
• Ground black pepper - to taste

Method of preparation:

1. Pour water over dried mushrooms.

2. Cut chicken wings in half, then send to a pot and simmer the broth for 1.5-2 hours.

3. Dice the onions, cut the carrots and beets into bars.

4. Fry them in vegetable oil, add tomato paste and sugar, add water, stir stew until cooked.

5. Add potatoes to the pot with broth and cook until half-cooked.

6. Chop cabbage finely, add to the same and cook over low heat.

7. After 10-15 minutes, add salt, sugar, pepper, grated garlic and bay leaf.

Finished borscht is best served with donuts and sour cream.