Lazy Shchi of Fresh Cabbage
Origin: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Source: Elena Molokhovets (Елена Молоховец), 1901
Ingredients
- 2-3 funt beef
- 1 herb bouquet
- 1 onion
- 1 turnip
- 2 carrot
- 1/2 celeriac
- 1 1/2 funt fresh cabbage
- 3/4 stakan flour
- 1 tbsp butter or broth fat
- 3/4 stakan sour cream
- 6 grains pepper
- 2 bay leaf
- tomato purée
Instructions
- Cook a white bouillon (no browned roots) from beef with a celery-parsley bouquet.
- Blanch cabbage pieces, brown onion, and stew the cabbage in broth with turned roots.
- Thicken with a flour roux, combine, adjust salt, and finish covered.
- Serve over dill, pepper and beef; optionally add stewed tomato.