Dishes from beet tops

We recently wrote about what you can prepare salads with beet tops. This time we will talk about other dishes, delicious and healthy, which can be prepared with this wonderful product, which, unfortunately, the hostess is so often just thrown away.

Tops called the aboveground part of beets - stems with leaves. For the preparation of various dishes can be used together, or only red stems, or leaves only - as you like. And in order to understand how you like, try again preparing something from beet tops do not throw - you will see that it is as full of the vegetables as root.

In tops contain more vitamins and minerals than in most beet, and throwing it, you throw a useful product, from which you can prepare many delicious dishes.

What dishes can be cooked with beet tops?

Soups, including soup, botvinya, the second dishes - stews, burgers and even cakes can be cooked with beet tops! In general, the options are many, we can only choose which dish you isprobuete tops for the first time.

Soup called "Botwin" a century ago called the queen of Russian cold soups, for centuries it was one of the most popular soups of our ancestors. Today he is undeservedly forgotten, and borscht, which generally without leaves was unthinkable, now also do without this valuable product. It is time to restore justice and return tops in the daily diet for the benefit of the body and wallet.

Soup recipe "Botwin"

Need: beet greens, sorrel, dill, radishes, cucumber, onion, sour cream, mustard, boiled eggs, water.

How to cook beet soup. Tops wash and finely chop, put in a pan with a capacity of 2-3 liters, and pour boiling water into it up to the top, boil for 10-15 minutes, put the chopped sorrel, as much boil and get all the greens. Broth strain and cool, greens twist in a meat grinder and mix with them. In a separate bowl mix the diced sliced radishes, cucumbers, onions, chopped dill. Rub with mustard cream, boiled eggs finely chop, pour broth vegetable mixture, season with sour cream and mustard dressing and eggs to the table.

If not sorrel, it can be replaced with spinach or lettuce. Fresh cucumbers can be replaced by salted.

Recipe for cooking borscht with beet tops

Need: 1.5-2 l beef broth, 400 g of beet tops with young, 2 parsley root, potatoes, carrots, tomatoes, tablespoon butter, 1 onion, 1 bunch of dill, 0.5 cups of sour cream.

How to cook soup with beet tops. Cut the carrots and beets finely cubes - potatoes, half rings - onion. Carrots with onions and fry gently for 10-15 minutes beets in butter. Rinse tops, cut it into slices chop the tomatoes. Broth boil, salted, put vegetable zazharku, bring to a boil, put the tops, potatoes, salt the, season to taste with spices and cook the soup for 15-20 minutes. Tomatoes put in the soup for 10 minutes until cooked, feeding soup greens and season with sour cream.

Dishes from the first to the second pass.

Recipe cooking chops from beet tops

You will need: 5-6 sheets of beet tops, 1 egg, 2-4 tablespoons flour, salt.

How to cook cutlets of beet tops. Leaves finely chopped or crushed blender, drive an egg, add flour, salt the stuffing and mix for meatballs, molded them, roll in flour or bread crumbs, fry in hot skillet (preferably cast-iron) with vegetable oil and serve hot with sour cream.

Something similar to the burgers, but, in fact, which is a completely different dish - a Georgian pkhali.

Cooking recipe pkhali of beet tops

You will need: 1 beam beet tops, garlic cloves, coriander beam, glass chopped walnuts, 2 tablespoons vinegar, red hot pepper, salt.

How to cook pkhali with beet tops. In salted water boil until soft tops. Grind using a blender tops, adding to it the garlic, cilantro, walnuts, salt the taste, add vinegar (balsamic - best), hot pepper, stir again formed into patties, submit them to the table as a side dish or main course.

Can be prepared from the tops and stews with vegetables.

Vegetable stew recipe with beet tops

You will need: 500 g of beet tops, 100 g of cheese, 2 cloves of garlic, 1-2 onions, 1 bell pepper, ground paprika, black pepper, vegetable / olive oil.

How to cook a stew of beet tops. Finely chop the onion, bell pepper, garlic, put in a pan with hot oil and fry until browning, add the chopped tops, stir and stew, stirring occasionally, until her soft, pour a little water, season with spices to taste before serving sprinkle with grated stew cheese.

This stew tastes best with garlic sauce or toasted with garlic. Also, it is possible to grind, add nuts and other additives to taste and in turn sandwich shop mass.

Fans can prepare cakes with beet tops that's such a wonderful cake.

Cake recipe with chicken and beet tops

You will need: 1 kg of beet tops, 400 grams of chicken meat, 300 grams of flour, 150 grams of butter dough and 30-50 g - for filling, 1 egg, bunch of parsley, 2 tablespoons water, salt, 1-2 cloves of garlic, spices.

How to cook a cake with beet tops. For the dough slide pour the flour, make a hole in the center, to drive an egg, add water, salt the, knead the dough, put into the cold, covering it with a towel. Cut tops, boil for 10 minutes, dipped in boiling water, dry and mix with minced meat in a frying pan with oil, put all of 5 minutes. In the 2 cake roll out the dough, put in a greased form first, chop it with a fork, put the stuffing on top, smooth, lay on top of the second layer of dough, zaschipnut edges, bake for about an hour in the preheated oven to 180-200 degrees.

We have listed not all variants of delicious dishes that can be made from beet tops - a truly multi-functional product that complements the taste of many traditional dishes and will enjoy a bright flavor notes specially prepared from his dishes.