• Sorrel Borsch

    From Ben Collver@1:18/200 to All on Wed Sep 23 10:42:43 2026
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    Title: Sorrel Borsch
    Categories: Soups, Ukrainian
    Yield: 1 Batch

    1 sm Onion; chopped
    1 tb Butter
    6 c Soup stock
    1 md Potato; diced
    1 c Vegetables (celery, carrot,
    - cabbage);
    - chopped
    3 c Sorrel; or more, chopped
    1 tb Flour
    1/2 c Sour cream
    Salt & pepper
    Dill; chopped
    3 Eggs; hard cooked

    Cook the onion in the butter until wilted. Add the soup stock and all
    the vegetables except sorrel Cook until very tender. Strain and press
    the vegetables through a sieve. Toss in the sorrel and continue
    cooking for a few minutes. Blend the flour with the sour cream to a
    smooth paste, stir into the borsch 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 bow] and fill
    with the borsch. For additional richness, omit the flour, beat 2 raw
    egg yolks slightly and blend with the cream. Then pour into the
    borsch and heat without boiling it. This is the customary way of
    dressing up sorrel borsch.

    Recipe by Savella Stechishin

    Recipe FROM: Traditional Ukrainian Cookery, 1976

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