This is my recipe for Sweet and Sour Cabbage Borscht, aka Cabbage Soup.\u00a0 It’s my most requested recipe.\u00a0 Even though it’s called “borscht” there are no beets in it.\u00a0 It is based on my mother’s recipe which I’ve modified.\u00a0 I make it in the slow cooker, my mother made it on the stovetop.\u00a0 It can be a side dish or a full one-pot meal.<\/p>\n
Sweet and Sour Cabbage Borscht<\/strong><\/p>\n 1 Small to Med head of green cabbage – cored and sliced into 12ths or so. Mix all the ingredients except the cabbage in the crockpot – then add the cabbage. The cabbage will be sticking up out of the liquid but it will cook down. Cook for 8-10 hours on medium heat – if possible, stir the cabbage about half way through the cooking, otherwise stir when you get home.<\/p>\n If you use beef, this becomes a one-pot meal. There is no need to pre-cook or brown the meat. If you’re making the standard version without beef, use beef broth. If you’re using beef then you don’t need the broth, just use water and up the salt to 2 tsp. If making a vegetarian version, use 1 cup of mushroom water (the water from rehydrating shitake mushrooms) instead of the beef broth and 2 tsp of salt instead of one. If you don’t have mushroom water you can use Vegetarian Mushroom Oyster Sauce – use about 2 tbs in one cup of water and cut the salt back to 1 tsp. You can get this at an Asian Grocery.<\/p>\n Use Better than Bullion brand of beef broth concentrate to make the beef broth.<\/p>\n Sour salt is citric acid crystals. You can get this in the kosher food section of a good market. Look for Rokeach brand in a 5 oz glass jar. Some health food stores carry it in bulk as will a winemaking or homebrew shop.<\/p>\n Can be made up and put in the crockpot the night before. Put the pot in the fridge – take out in the morning and start heating.<\/p>\n You can optionally add in carrots and\/or potatoes.<\/p>\n For the beef I usually use cross-rib roast but any cut will come out fork-tender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is my recipe for Sweet and Sour Cabbage Borscht, aka Cabbage Soup.\u00a0 It’s my most requested recipe.\u00a0 Even though it’s called “borscht” there are no beets in it.\u00a0 It is based on my mother’s recipe which I’ve modified.\u00a0 I make it in the slow cooker, my mother made it on the stovetop.\u00a0 It can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,25],"tags":[16,14,11,12,20,19,17,18,15,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markiscooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markiscooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markiscooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markiscooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markiscooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/markiscooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markiscooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markiscooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markiscooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1 14.5 oz Can Stewed Tomatoes
\n1\u00a014.5 oz Can Tomato Sauce
\n1 Cup Beef Broth (or 1 cup mushroom water or 1 cup water if adding beef)
\n1 Medium Yellow Onion – halved and sliced into 8ths or so and split apart
\n1 tsp sour salt
\n1 tsp pepper
\n1 tsp salt (use 2 tsp if no beef broth)
\n2 tbs sugar (Splenda works fine if you don’t want the carbs from the sugar)
\n1-1.5 lbs lean stew meat (optional)<\/p>\n