Glampingbaba's Slowcooker Borsch

Glampingbaba's Slowcooker Borsch 

3 raw chicken legs

4 cups diced raw beets

2 cups diced new potatoes

1 cup diced new carrots

1 can( 19 oz.) Diced Tomatoes

1 ½ cups finely shredded new cabbage

2 small new onions diced

3 cloves garlic chopped up

8 cups water or enough to cover

1 tbsp. Fresh chopped dill

1 tsp. salt

Pepper

1 tbsp. Parsley

3 tbsp. butter

3 tbsp. Vinegar

Sour cream or whipping cream

A loaf of unsliced white bread and butter.

Best way is to cut up your veggies the night before with a nice glass of cold wine...or a can of frosty beer if you’re really into chopping. 

Dicers drink wine...Choppers drink beer.

 Put everything in the fridge so it’s ready the next day just to pop in your slow cooker. Put on some Polish ( Ukrainian)music ......a must. Your borsch won’t have that authentic taste unless your veggies are prepared or simmered against the proper background.

Or you can be a true cook and do everything all at once.  You choose.

Dice or chop up all the veggies.

Fry diced onion and garlic in 3 tbsp. butter until nicely sautéed.  Adds to the aroma of the procedure.

Put all veggies in your slow cooker, add diced tomatoes, sautéed onion and garlic, and all the rest, lay chicken legs on top, add dill, parsley, salt and pepper, vinegar and enough water to cover everything.

Simmer on High for 4 hours.......I simmered on High for 3 and 1 hour on Low.

Or you can chop and dice the night before, get tipsy...turn your Crockpot to Low for 8 hours, while you sleep.

When borsch is ready you can remove chicken drumsticks and cut up small pieces of meat for your soup or discard it....but that would be a shame.

 

Add a bit of sour cream or sweet whipping cream to the hot mixture just to turn it a bit creamy.  Butter a slice of bread and you have an authentic borsch dish.

If this is too much.... cut your recipe veggies in half and use 1 drumstick....just for a nicer flavour.