How potatoes can fundamentally change the taste of borscht

Every housewife has her own secrets when preparing borscht. The main attention is paid to meat ingredients.

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Some people add lamb bones to the pot for richness, others cook the first course with duck, goose or rabbit. After all, there are even those who manage to cook vegetarian Ukrainian borscht.

No matter what you decide to use to make the broth, there is one indispensable ingredient in any borscht – potatoes.

Few people know, but this particular vegetable can help make borscht special. To do this, when cooking, you should not cut the potato tubers into small cubes, but boil them completely. After that, the boiled potatoes should be mashed with a pestle and already in this form can be sent to borscht.

Surprisingly, such a simple trick can radically change the taste of an ordinary dish.