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6 h 30 min total150 min hands-onServes 8Hard
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LEGEND → —Colour is the whole job: the beets are cooked apart and acidified at the right moment, or the pot turns brown before service.
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The sauce, the cure, the dough, the dressing — a restaurant makes these itself, and so will you. Every one below is a full sub-recipe: its own ingredient list, its own method, its own yield and shelf life. Nothing says «use shop-bought».
A few ingredients to show you what the dish is built on. Every one on the full list carries a gross and a net weight per portion, and a note on what you can swap it for where you live.
Beef short ribs000 g
Beetroot000 g
White cabbage000 g
Waxy potatoes000 g
Onions000 gMost of what goes wrong is decided at the counter, before you cook anything. These are filmed by the chef: what to buy, how to tell it is good, and how to set your own kitchen up for it.
Beets by variety: sugar, colour and why cylindrical ones fade
Two acids and the order they go into the pot
Pot width, grater size and skimming tools for clear yushka
Written the way a restaurant writes a technical card: one operation per step, each with its own time and temperature. 24 of the 33 carry a photo of what it should look like at that moment, and 6 carry a short clip for the parts a still cannot show.
Hardest step: adding kvas without dulling the colour — step 20 of 33.
Read the whole method before you start, then weigh everything out. Every timing below assumes the next ingredient is already within reach.
Free preview3 things Ostap Kravchenko watches for every service. You can read what they are right now — the answer to each one comes with the recipe.
Beets boiled in the pot with everything else
Cabbage going in at the same time as the potato
Kvas poured in while the pot is still boiling
Two acids go into this pot at two different moments, and the order they go in is the colour on the plate.
Written by Ostap Kravchenko. Visible only to people who bought this recipe.
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528 people cooked it, 83% got it right, and that is the entire reason it costs $14.99 rather than nothing. It has reached the top of the ladder.
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