Botvinya classic

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to cook botvinya? Prepare all the necessary ingredients. Botvinya can be made with meat and meat broth or with fish in fish broth. In my family, they prefer meat, and I will introduce you to it. She will need lean meat, vegetables, kvass, herbs and the most important product without which it will not be botvinya - beet tops. Wash and dry the vegetables and herbs. To begin with, we will cook the meat, because we will need it together with the broth.

2. Step 2:

   

   Meat, I have pork, rinse, put in a saucepan and pour cold, clean water. It is cold, with water, so as not to brew the top protein on the meat, which is why the broth will turn out to be "empty". Put on medium heat and bring to a boil, removing the foam. Then reduce the heat to a minimum, put the onion, garlic, herbs and salt. Without covering with a lid, cook for 40 minutes, until the meat is ready.Remove from heat and cool.

3. Step 3:

   

   Cut the cucumber into strips and put it in a bowl, if you will do it in a common plate or spread it out in portions. Cucumbers are best from your garden, but if there are none, choose not large, elastic, green and without damage. If they are at least a little rotten, throw them away without regret, because the rot has already taken root all over the fruit.

4. Step 4:

   

   Cut off the tails of the radish and cut into thin strips and add to the bowl with cucumber.

5. Step 5:

   

   Chop the dill, parsley and green onions finely and add salt. Put them in a bowl and pound them with a pestle so that they let the juice and become soft.

6. Step 6:

   

   Put the greens in a bowl with chopped vegetables.

8. Step 7:

   

   Strain the cooled broth through a fine sieve into a saucepan. Pour in the cold kvass and mix.

9. Step 8:

   

   Add mustard to the pan, add salt and mix. Adjust the mustard according to your taste, besides, it is all different in sharpness, so there is no exact amount.

10. Step 9:

    

    Pour the resulting kvass into a plate with vegetables. Remove the stalks from the beet tops and cut them into thin strips. If the tops are large and have already become too hard, boil it with boiling water. But my tops are young and therefore it was not necessary.

11. Step 10:

    

    Put the boiled meat in one piece or cut into strips and add to the botvinya. Season everything with salt, pepper, if necessary, and serve with sour cream.

12. Step 11:

    

    Bon appetit.