Vegetarian Borscht with «vushka» (dumpling)

Prepare all the ingredients for cooking lean borscht with "Vushka" in vegetable broth.

Pre-soak 50 g of white mushrooms for at least 30 minutes. Wash 2 beets, put them in a saucepan and fill with water. When the water boils, cook beets for one hour.

Pour 150 ml of cold water in a saucepan with red beans. Cook them for 1-1,5 hours.

Boil vegetable broth. Put in a saucepan with 3 l of water: cabbage quarters, washed and unpeeled carrots, onion in halves, a quarter of peeled celery, 1 peeled sweet pepper, 10 sprigs of parsley, 5 peas of allspice, 3 bay leaves and salt to taste. Cook for 30 minutes on medium heat.

Meanwhile, make the dough for the «vushka». Mix 300 g of flour, 150 ml of water, 2 tbsp. of oil and 2/3 tsp. salt in a bowl. Knead the elastic dough. Set aside for now.

For the stuffing «vushka» peel 3 potatoes and cut into medium pieces. Put them in a saucepan, fill with water and boil in salted water. It takes about 25 minutes.

When the potatoes are ready, mash them.

Peel an onion, and dice it. Cut 200 g of mushrooms, 100 g of white mushrooms and 50 g of soaked dried white mushrooms into small pieces. Heat a frying pan with 2 tbsp. oil and spread onions with mushrooms. Add a little salt and fry until the moisture evaporates from the mushrooms.

Combine mashed potatoes with fried mushrooms in a bowl. The stuffing for the «vushka» is ready.

Sprinkle a little flour on the work surface and roll out the dough for the «vushka» in a thin layer. Form circles out of the dough.

Spread the potato and mushroom fillings in dough circles and form «vushka». Watch the second photo.

Boil water in a saucepan and cook the «vushka» in salted water for 3 minutes after boiling.

Place the prepared «vushka» in a bowl and sprinkle a little with oil.

Peel a boiled beet and grate it on a large grater and sprinkle with lemon juice, add 1 tsp. sugar and ½ tsp. salt. Leave for 1 hour to marinate.

Seize ready-made vegetables from vegetable broth. We don’t need all vegetables, we only need carrots now. Grate the carrots on a large grater.

Add grated beets and carrots, boiled beans to the vegetable broth. Cook everything together for 10 minutes.

When you serve the dish, put 5-6 «vushka» in a plate and fill with borscht.