Green Borscht Base 

Green borscht with sorrel is a dish loved and cooked in many Ukrainian families. The season for this soup is spring and summer, when fresh herbs and greens grow right underfoot. But in winter, it’s not so easy to find sorrel, wild garlic, or fresh nettle, so now is the best time to prepare and preserve borscht base in jars for winter using an autoclave.

This preservation option is a real find for housewives. One jar of base — and your green borscht is 80% ready. Just add broth, an egg, and potatoes — and that’s it! Fast, healthy, and without chemicals.

The recipe for the borscht base in the autoclave is designed to preserve vitamins and the natural taste of spring greens as much as possible. The main ingredients are carrots, onions, sorrel, wild garlic, young nettle, salt, spices, and for color retention and mild flavor balance — a natural preservative like lemon juice (or vinegar) is added.

This dish is not only tasty but also very beneficial for the immune system. Sorrel is rich in vitamin C, nettle contains iron, and wild garlic has natural antiseptic properties. The green borscht base is a ready-made foundation that you can use to prepare: classic green borscht, vegetable soup with grains, sauce, or filling for omelets, pies, crepes. This is a universal recipe that goes beyond just borscht. Try adding a spoon of this base to a regular soup — and you’ll get a whole new dish!

Borscht base recipe for winter — for 3 jars of 0.5 liter each.

Cooking in an autoclave has several advantages:

• High temperature (80⁰C) ensures sterility without added preservatives.
• The dish cooks in just 5 minutes — preserving the bright color and taste of sorrel.

This is a modern preservation method that saves your time and lets you enjoy a spring recipe during cold winter months. If you still don’t know how to prepare borscht base for winter — be sure to try this recipe. Borscht base made in an autoclave is convenient, quick, and delicious. And most importantly — natural and preservative-free. Don’t delay — prepare the base today so that in winter you can treat your loved ones to homemade green borscht with sorrel without extra hassle.