Today, many women scrupulously calculate the number of future calories in a particular dish before starting to cook it. Well: beauty requires sacrifice. And sometimes you really want a real rich borscht! What is the calorie content of borscht and can it be regulated?
Borscht history
The first information about borscht as a traditional dish in Russia was found in the monuments of the 16th - 17th centuries. Mentions about him are found in the Novgorod Yamsk books of this period - apparently the passing merchants and officials loved to please themselves with rich borscht with a marrow. Especially in winter, in frosty weather, after a few chilly hours in the mail carriage. As a recipe for the first course, borscht strongly recommends "Domostroy" - a collection of rules, advice and instructions on all issues of human life, family maintenance and housekeeping. In the famous monument of Russian literature, it is already mentioned as a recipe. The popularity of this dish has not been lost over the centuries. Among the borscht lovers from famous people of the past there were also royal persons - the Slavic national dish was very fond of Catherine II, Emperor Alexander II.
Borsch is a traditional dish at the commemoration of Russians and other Eastern Slavs. There is a belief that the soul of the deceased flies off with steam from hot borscht.
Real borsch
What Russian does not like to pamper himself with real rich borscht! And real, rich borscht is, of course, high-calorie. Some housewife will cook it so thick that the spoon is like porridge. This is not German onion soup! Good borsch with long-boiled marrow - pork, lamb or beef. But even cooked without meat, with beans, it goes for a sweet soul under the cold, straight from the refrigerator, not finely chopped bacon. And of course, the obligatory big spoonful of sour cream Borsch is originally peasant food, peasant food. And the peasant has to work. And for the work to be argued, the calorie content must be at its best! But borsch is not only high in calories. Due to the wide variety of vegetables, it is rich in a variety of trace elements useful for the body.
Distinguish between hot and cold borscht. Hot borscht (or red) is prepared with lots of beets. Cold is made on kefir using boiled beets or sorrel, fresh nettle. Prepared in spring and summer heat.
How about calories
It would seem that a person watching his figure should not try borscht. But the essence of this dish is made up of vegetables: red beets, cabbage, carrots, onions, tomatoes. Even potatoes are not such an obligatory ingredient - until the times of Peter the Great they did not know them in Russia. To create a bouquet, lean borscht can be cooked with mushrooms. This borscht contains only 27.10 kcal per 100 g of product. For comparison: the most high-calorie Moscow borscht has 115.50 of them.
