Beetroot is one of the most useful and affordable vegetables. Most of the vitamins contained in it are retained even after heat treatment. It normalizes digestion, contributing to the discharge of extra pounds. Dietetics recommend including this product in the daily menu, but the list of dishes with this vegetable in the cookbooks of many housewives is not too large. Even if all of them enter into the diet, they will soon get bored. Diversity will help make beetroot soup. There are many recipes for this dish, which has a delicate creamy texture and an appetizing hue. The taste of soups strongly depends on what other products are included. Everyone can find an option for everyone.
Cooking Features
Beet puree soup is prepared on the same principle as most other cream soups, but the technology of its preparation has some specific features.
- Beets are cooked for a long time, so they are usually boiled, stewed or baked before being added to the soup, and the rest of the vegetables are cooked in parallel.
- In order for beet soup to have an appetizing color, when stewing or browning, vinegar or lemon juice is added to the beets: acid helps to preserve the rich color of this vegetable.
- Beetroot puree soup can be cooked both in water and meat broth.
- Adding sour apples to the soup helps balance the sweet taste of beets. Garlic, ginger make a harmonious combination with it.
- Delicate creamy taste of the soup will give cream, sour cream, butter, cheese. Often these ingredients are added at the final stage of preparation. After the last ingredient has been added or the ingredients are blended, the soup must be boiled and boiled for 2 minutes. This allows you to disinfect the dish.
- Adding potatoes helps make beetroot soup more dense.
- A blender will be a good helper in cooking beetroot soup. However, you can make a creamy soup without using kitchen appliances: boiled vegetables can be easily ground through a sieve.
- When using an immersion blender, one should not forget that if you immerse it in the soup or remove it from it when it is turned on, the spray will start to scatter in all directions. They can burn and stain surrounding objects.
- If you use an immersion blender to grind food, the pan must be deep and full by no more than two-thirds.
Serve beetroot soup can be both hot and cold. A good addition to it will be toast. You can sprinkle the dish with fresh herbs, grated cheese, decorate with whipped cream.
Simple recipe for beet puree soup
Composition:
- beets - 0, 5 kg;
- potatoes - 0.5 kg;
- red onion - 100 g;
- wine vinegar (6%) - 20 ml;
- water or broth - 1, 5 l;
- butter - 30 g;
- sour cream - 100 ml;
- salt, paprika, dried basil - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash and peel the vegetables.
- Cut them into medium-sized cubes, spreading them on separate plates.
- In 3 glasses of water or broth, dilute the vinegar. Pour the resulting liquid beets. Put on a slow fire and simmer until soft.
- Melt butter in a pan, fry the onion in it.
- Put potatoes and onions in a pan with beets, cover with the remaining broth.
- Boil until potatoes are ready.
- Turn the contents of the pan into a puree in any convenient way.
- Add cream, salt, spices, dried spices. Stir.
- Return the pan to the fire, bring the soup to a boil and boil for 2-3 minutes.
Spread out the soup in plates, sprinkle it with dried or fresh herbs. Separately serve the wheat croutons with a neutral taste.
Beet and Carrot Cream Soup
Composition:
- beets - 0, 2 kg;
- carrots - 100 g;
- potatoes - 0.5 kg;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- water or broth - 1 l;
- salt, sour cream - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Boil the beets until tender, cool, peel. Cut into small cubes.
- Peel the potatoes, cut into cubes and a half centimeters.
- Scrape, wash carrots, cut them into circles.
- Put carrots and potatoes in a saucepan, cover with water. Put on the stove and cook for 15-20 minutes after boiling.
- Add the beets, wait until the soup boils again, cook for 5-7 minutes.
- Pour some broth to make the vegetables easier to chop. Use a dip blender to mash them.
- Add garlic and sour cream passed through a press, dilute with broth to the desired consistency. Stir.
- Bring to a boil, cook for 1-2 minutes, remove from heat.
Before serving soup to the table, it is desirable to give an opportunity to infuse a little. Serve preferably with rye or wheat croutons with garlic flavor.
Beet puree soup with apple
Composition:
- beets - 0, 3 kg;
- apples - 0, 3 kg;
- potatoes - 0, 3 kg;
- garlic - 3 cloves;
- onions - 100 g;
- sour cream - 100 ml;
- fresh dill - 50 g;
- salt, spices - to taste;
- water - 1 l.
Method of preparation:
- Boil beets or bake until tender. Peeled, cut into small pieces.
- Peel potatoes, cut into cubes of one and a half centimeters or a little less.
- Peel the apples, cut the cores out of them. Pulp cut into about the same pieces as the potatoes.
- Free the onion from the peel, cut into small cubes.
- Apples, onions and potatoes put in a pan, cover with water. Boil until all ingredients are soft.
- Add the beets and continue cooking for 5 minutes.
- Remove the pan from the heat. Pour ladle broth and mix with sour cream. Pour back into the pot with the soup.
- Add dill, chopped with a knife, and garlic passed through a press.
- Using an immersion blender, turn the contents of the pan into a homogeneous mass, boil for 2-3 minutes.
The soup prepared according to this recipe has an unusual but harmonious taste. At first it may seem unusual to you, but you will love it very quickly.
Beet puree soup with cream and ginger
Composition:
- beets - 0, 3 kg;
- potatoes - 0, 3 kg;
- vegetable oil - 20 ml;
- ginger root - 20 g;
- water - 0, 8 l;
- cream - 100 ml;
- coriander seeds - 5 g;
- salt, pepper, dried herbs - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash and peel the vegetables.
- Cut the beets into small cubes, potatoes - into medium-sized chunks.
- Pour the beets and potatoes with water and cook until soft.
- Heat oil in a pan, put coriander seeds in it.
- Peel the ginger, chop on a grater, add to the coriander. Fry for a minute.
- Put in a pan with vegetables, cook for 5 minutes.
- Turn the soup into a puree, add salt, pepper, dried herbs, cream.
- Bring, while stirring, to a boil.
- Remove from heat, let stand for 10 minutes.
When serving, soup can be decorated with whipped cream, add pieces of cream cheese or wheat croutons to each plate.
Beet puree soup is a dietary dish, tasty and healthy. Its creamy consistency is unlikely to leave anyone indifferent. Cooking the soup does not take much effort even from an inexperienced cook. If the beets boil in advance, a lot of time on the whole process is also not required. The presence of several completely different recipes of dishes allows you to vary the family menu.
