Beet Soup: CREAMY GOOD
Beet a bit crazy lately? You’ve heard THOSE words. Or have you? Of course not. (I just made that up.) However, this soup is low impact dining. So, feel free to get a bit pink over this fleshy root. Because it’s a treasure within a treasure.
After all, it’s why we survive. For soup, that is.
Beet Soup shopping list
Beets: 4 scrubbed, cooked, skinned, diced
Beef Broth or Stock: 1 box
Carrots: ½ cup fresh, peeled, diced
Potato: ½ cup diced
Sour Cream: ½ cup
Flour: 2 T
Sauerkraut: 1 small can/ 1 cup (optional, but it gives a good sour if you like that sort of thing).
Preparation
First scrub beets and boil in water with a pinch of sugar until tender. Then quickly plunge into cold water. When cool to touch, remove skin. Dice.
Next in a large pot/Dutch oven bring beef broth to a slow boil over medium heat. Then add carrots and potatoes. Cover and cook 10 minutes. Then reduce heat to simmer and add beets. Next add sauerkraut (optional). Continue to simmer until vegetables are tender, about 20 minutes.
Then in a bowl combine sour cream and flour: and fork blend until smooth. Add ½ cup of soup to mixture and blend until smooth. Next adding to soup gradually to avoid lumps. Lastly simmer until heated through.
*Never boil beet soup after adding sour cream.
Add baby spinach leaves as a garnish. Serve with a blueberry bagel.
*Substitute pickled beets for a sour appeal.
BEET Notes
Beets are electric. Larger than life. In fact, Borsch comes from the Slavic word for beet. Equally a prize in Polish and Russian dishes. Polish barszcz or borsch can be either hot or cold, clear or creamy.
Beets are also sweet, beautiful, and packed with power. Beets are a bit of nature’s wonder. A cleanser of both the liver and digestive tract—beets eliminate toxins and regulate blood sugar. Surly, the one veggie that has the power over how we look and feel. In fact, eat a beet and you’ll literally glow.
Most notable is, the all mighty beet!
So, pickled-em, bake-em, soup-em, salad-em, even blend-em in your morning smoothie with plain yogurt. Beets are high in folic acid, a vitamin crucial for heart, brain, liver, muscle, skin and over-all healthy functions.