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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Eastern European >> Russian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. In large pot, brown meat in butter, then remove and set aside. | 2. Saute the onions (using more butter, if needed), the set aside with the meat. | 3. Make a paste of remaining butter and flour and add water as needed, save this for thickening at the end. | 4. Return meat to pot, add smoked pork and water. | 5. Bring to a boil then simmer. | 6. Add bay leaf, peppercorns, garlic, beet greens, carrot, celery, and parsley. | 7. Cover and simmer for 2 hours. | 8. Peel and grate one of the beets into 1/4 cup water and set aside to make the lovely color. | 9. Scrub and cook the other 7 beets in a separate pan, and when done set aside to cool. | 10. Add tomatoes, beans, cabbage, potatoes, vinegar and sugar and simmer (another hour of cooking total). | 11. Peel and dice beets and add to soup. | 12. Add thickening to soup. | 13. During last 15 minutes of cooking, add grated beets and juice (and franks). | 14. Cut the frankfurters in half lengthwise, leaving about an inch uncut. Cut the strips in half lengthwise. Cut the 2 strips in half, then cut each of these 4 strips in half. The frankfurter will be an inch of solid meat with 8 strips attached. When cooked, the strips curl, and resemble an octopus. Children love this! | 15. Serve with sour cream. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
beef	2		cut	1075.7624	2.0792	191.9196	33.2673
butter	1	tablespoon		85.5	3.9285	2.6715	7.2
onion	3		chopped	180.0	42.03	4.95	0.45
flour	2	tablespoons		72.285	15.8257	1.1751	0.2804
pork	1/2	lb	smoked cut lean	852.768	0.0	31.5479	79.5388
water	3	quarts		-	-	-	-
bay leaf	1			-	-	-	-
peppercorn	6		crushed	151.15200000000002	0.938	0.3216	16.4552
garlic clove	2		mashed diced	-	-	-	-
beet	8			-	-	-	-
beet leaf	1	bunch		-	-	-	-
carrot	1		sliced	52.48	12.2624	1.1904	0.3072
celery leaf	1	stalk	sliced	-	-	-	-
parsley	1	tablespoon	chopped	1.368	0.2405	0.1129	0.03
cabbage	1	cup	shredded	22.25	5.162000000000001	1.1392	0.08900000000000001
potato	3		peeled cut	-	-	-	-
tomato	1	quart		-	-	-	-
navy bean	1	cup	cooked	69.68	13.572000000000001	6.396	0.728
vinegar	1	tablespoon		3.1289999999999996	0.1386	0.0	0.0
sugar	1	tablespoon		55.062	13.7724	0.0	0.0
frankfurter	5			7166.768	76.2036	253.1048	641.8340000000001

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.