Cold beetroot soup

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Cold beetroot soup makes an excellent summer dish in South Africa. Serve with chopped boiled eggs, sour cream, cucumbers, radishes and fresh dill or chives.

Ingredients

6-8 medium beetroots
8 cups water
1 T salt, plus extra to season
2 T sugar
freshly ground black pepper, to season
for serving:
thick sour cream or yoghurt
chopped cucumber
chopped fresh dill or snipped chives
thinly sliced radishes
chopped or sliced hard-boiled egg

Cooking Instructions

1. Wash the beetroots well, but don’t peel. Trim the stalks but leave attached. Place in a saucepan with the water and salt. Bring to the boil. Reduce the heat and cook, covered, for about an hour or until tender. Strain the soup and stir in the sugar and lemon juice.

2. Check to see that it has a good sweet-sour balance, and correct if necessary.

3. As soon as the beetroots are cool enough to handle, slip off the skins and chop. Blend the chopped beetroot with the liquid until smooth. Check the seasoning and sweet-sour balance. Chill well.

4. Serve with bowls of accompaniments to add at the table.

Per serving: 444.4kJ, 3.5g protein, 1.6g fat, 19.7g carbs

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More information:
In Poland, Christmas Eve is a day of fasting. But as soon as the first star, a symbol of the Star of Bethlehem, appears, the feasting begins. Christmas supper is strictly a family occasion and consists of 12 courses, one for each of the 12 apostles. One of the dishes is beetroot soup. Here’s a cold version to suit our hot summers.