One of everyone's favorite first courses - red borscht - in its classic version is a fairly high-calorie dish.

A rich, thick first course cooked on pork broth and seasoned with lard frying - this is a high-calorie "time bomb".

What to do if you do not want to deny yourself the pleasure of eating borscht, but the number of calories consumed is of no small importance to you?

There is a way out - you can cook this dish not on pork broth, but on chicken. In this case, the calorie content of the dish will decrease, and high taste qualities borscht will be preserved.

If the number of calories in the finished dish is a matter of principle, then it is preferable to use for broth chicken breast. This is the most dietary and low-calorie part of the chicken carcass.

The energy value of borscht chicken broth with frying - 46 kcal per 100 grams.

For cooking, we need a fillet weighing 400 grams per 2 liters of water. Wash the meat thoroughly, cut into portions and pour cold water. Bring to a boil, carefully remove the foam and leave our broth to cook over low heat. Do not forget to salt the water after 10 minutes after boiling.

While the broth is cooking, we prepare the rest of the ingredients for our dish:

• wash and clean potatoes, onions, carrots, beets;
• shred cabbage;
• potatoes cut into larger cubes, onion - smaller;
• grind beets and carrots on a grater.

1. Boil borscht traditional way- fried in advance in a pan with the addition of sunflower oil onion until golden brown, and then stew carrots and beets with it.
2. Do without frying vegetables and achieve minimal possible calorie content. In this case, all vegetables are sent directly to a pot of boiling broth.

Which cooking option would you choose? do not forget to add a bay leaf and squeeze a couple of cloves of garlic 10 minutes before the end of cooking.

Immediately before the end of cooking, add chopped greens - dill and parsley.

Remove the finished borscht from the heat and let it stand for 20-30 minutes. That's all - you can invite household members to the table!

If you took the opportunity to reduce the calorie content of the dish by refusing to fry, then 100 grams of your borscht will contain 34 calories.

Borscht on chicken with sour cream (with mayonnaise)

The traditional dressing for borscht is sour cream. How much does the calorie content of a dish change, depending on its quantity and fat content?

One tablespoon contains approximately 20 grams of sour cream. if you love homemade sour cream- feel free to add another 90 kcal to the calorie content of borscht.

If you use store products, then the numbers will be much more modest.

The calorie content of a spoonful of sour cream with a fat content of 20% is 42 calories. Low fat sour cream(10%) contains even less - 35 kcal.

Calorie content of borscht without potatoes (with beans)

There are some more secrets to making low-calorie borscht. One of them is to give up potatoes.

Borscht cooked on beef or chicken broth without potatoes has a very low calorie content - only 30 kcal per 100 grams.

You can make a ready-made dish tasty and healthy by cooking it with beans. This wonderful product is a great substitute for potatoes. The only important point beans should be boiled separately o (not in borscht broth). Add it to the broth should be practically ready-made along with the rest of the vegetables.

Calorie content of 100 grams of borscht with beans will be 25 kcal.

As we can see, not only tasty and fragrant, but also low-calorie borscht is quite real and within the power of any housewife!

Useful properties of borscht

• lots of fibre.

Calorie content of borscht

• chicken bouillon
• cold borscht

Borscht is bad - is it true?

This dish has been known in Russia for a very long time. It is mentioned in Yamsky books, legends, proverbs and sayings are passed from mouth to mouth: “Borscht and cabbage - the house will not be empty”, “Your unsalted borscht is better than someone else’s fish soup”. Yes, for what merits such glory to an ordinary dish, even if cooked on meat broth?

Useful properties of borscht

• This dressing soup is considered hearty and perfectly balanced dish. Number of all useful elements: enzymes, vitamins, carbohydrates, proteins, fats, minerals is such that their ratio can be considered optimal. As a result of the use, the work of the entire gastrointestinal tract and other body systems is improving, therefore, human immunity increases.
• Vegetables (cabbage, beets, carrots, tomatoes, onions), without which there is no borscht, contain enough lots of fibre. After heat treatment fiber becomes a soft sorbent that removes harmful substances: heavy metals, radionuclides, nitrates, toxins.

Calorie content of borscht

• The calorie content of these dishes depends on the recipe, the quantity and quality of the ingredients and may be different for one type of this dressing soup. By the way, when using sauerkraut instead of fresh, the calorie content of the dish increases almost 2 times. If it is cooked on pork, then it is considered the most delicious, richest, most satisfying.
• Soup will be less fat and high-calorie, cooked with beef bone. In principle, real beef broth is classified as a dietary dish and is considered very useful. It contains little cholesterol, but there are more than enough amino acids, B vitamins and proteins of natural origin.
• Even lighter and more healing is considered chicken bouillon and soups based on it. It is given even to seriously ill people, it helps with problems of the gastrointestinal tract, cardiovascular system and colds. Since the calorie content of borscht in chicken broth is low, it can be recommended to those who want to lose weight.
• Those who do not eat meat at all can prepare a vegetable broth and cook borscht on its basis. This soup will also be useful, although not so satisfying. The so-called cold borscht(easier to say okroshka cooked on beetroot broth). A very tasty and refreshing dish.

Borscht is bad - is it true?

Only if you cook it from low-quality products. Nutritionists say that there are a lot of toxins in meat. To reduce their number, it is enough to bring the water, which is filled with meat products, to a boil and pour it out. BUT meat products again pour clean water, cook until tender and fill this broth with all the ingredients. To reduce your exposure to oxalic acid, add a tablespoon of sour cream to your bowl.

Vegetables are stuffed to the chapel with nitrates, chemicals that increase shelf life, pesticides. To somehow reduce their number, wash them thoroughly, then fill them with clean water with lemon juice(squeeze from half fruit) or sea ​​salt(0.5 tablespoon) for at least half an hour. For potatoes - cut the peel thicker, for beets - remove the bases of the petioles, discard the cabbage stalk, and remove the stalk from lettuce peppers. After undergoing heat treatment, the content of harmful substances in vegetables will become even less.

Borscht is not only tasty and loved by everyone, but also very healthy dish. It contains ingredients that are important and necessary for the human body. It is even included in the diet.

Beets, carrots, onions, cabbage, garlic, potatoes, herbs and meat - all these foods are rich, and together they create just a vitamin gift for the body. In the preparation of borscht can be used, according to different recipes both fresh and sauerkraut. But it is better to take lean meat, then borscht will be less high-calorie. For example, the calories of borscht on chicken broth are much lower than those cooked on pork or lamb.

How many calories are in chicken borscht?

The calorie content of borscht in chicken broth depends on several factors. It is worth considering the part of the carcass that was used for the broth. Average, delicious borscht in chicken broth contains approximately 48 kcal per 100 grams of product.

How to reduce the calorie content of borscht?

In order to make borscht low-calorie, you need to take chicken breast or fillet. It is worth removing the skin from the meat, since it contains a large amount of fat. The first water after boiling the meat should be drained, after removing all the foam.

If you use sauerkraut to make borscht, then the calorie content ready meal will be higher than when using fresh cabbage. You can also reduce calories by frying. So, you can sauté vegetables not on vegetable oil or lard, and in a pan with water. You can use instead of potatoes. Such borscht benefits not only due to its low calorie content, but also due to the benefits of legumes. You can season borscht not with mayonnaise, but with low-calorie sour cream, or you can refuse dressing altogether. Bread for borscht on chicken broth is best served not from the highest grade of wheat, but from rye. Not only does it contain fewer calories, but it also tastes better.

Borsch is a traditional Ukrainian dish. There are many variations of cooking borscht. Most often it is cooked with beets in meat broth. In the summer, you can pamper your household with borscht with sorrel. Those who adhere to a dietary diet are interested in the calorie content of borscht in chicken broth. Let's talk about this.

About your favorite dish in numbers

Even if two housewives cook borsch according to the same recipe, the taste of the dish will be different. Can be added tomato paste or fresh tomatoes, beets. The nutritional value of the first course and its taste depend on the broth on which the borscht is prepared.

If you stick diet food, then cook borscht on vegetable broth. The calorie content of a serving weighing 100 g will be about 30 kilocalories. In summer, many people prefer to cook green borscht. The calorie content of green borscht in chicken broth varies from 30 to 50 kilocalories.

Minimum the energy value will have a dish that is cooked with the addition of chicken fillet without skin. If you use other parts of the bird carcass, then the calorie content will increase.

On a note! Count calories and eat low calorie meals? Before preparing the broth, remove the skin from the poultry meat.

Please note that the calorie content of green borscht is determined by the set of products. Increase the nutritional value chicken eggs and sour cream. The calorie content of borsch on chicken broth with frying will vary from 50 to 90 kilocalories per 100 g of product.

His Majesty borscht

As already mentioned, real borscht can be cooked in different ways. Traditionally, beets and white cabbage are added to this first course. Let's look at the classic borscht recipe.

Composition:

• 0.2-0.3 kg of chicken meat;
• onion - 1 head;
• 3-4 pcs. potato tubers;
• carrots - 1 pc.;
• 1 beet root;
• 200-300 g of white cabbage;
• sweet fresh pepper(may be canned)
• to taste garlic cloves and feather onions;
• salt and pepper mixture - to taste;
• tomato paste - 2 tbsp. l.

Cooking:

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Summer version of borscht

We are talking about green borscht with sorrel. Although you can cook such a dish not only in the summer. Many housewives have already got used to it and preserve sorrel for the winter. In any case, the borscht turns out to be hearty and incredibly tasty.

On a note! If your goal is diet dish, cook borscht in vegetable or chicken broth.

Composition:

• 1 PC. chicken fillet;
• 4-5 pcs. potato tubers;
• carrots - 1 pc.;
• onion - 1 head;
• a bunch of fresh sorrel;
• a bunch of greens;
• salt and seasonings - to taste;
• soft butter- 1 tbsp. l.;
• 1 st. l. refined sunflower oil;
• 2-3 pcs. chicken eggs.

Cooking:

If your household loves fatty and rich first courses, then the broth should be prepared on pork or beef pulp. Please note that the calorie content of borscht is beef broth will be about 90 kilocalories per 100 g of product. And here the nutritional value pork dishes will be much higher, about 200 kilocalories.

Borscht with chicken rich in vitamins and minerals such as: vitamin A - 12.5%, beta-carotene - 13%, vitamin E - 12%, vitamin K - 27.9%, chlorine - 26.5%, cobalt - 11.5%

Benefits of chicken borscht

• Vitamin A is responsible for normal development, reproductive function, skin and eye health, and maintaining immunity.
• B-carotene is a provitamin A and has antioxidant properties. 6 micrograms of beta-carotene is equivalent to 1 microgram of vitamin A.
• Vitamin E has antioxidant properties, is necessary for the functioning of the gonads, the heart muscle, is a universal stabilizer of cell membranes. With a deficiency of vitamin E, hemolysis of erythrocytes and neurological disorders are observed.
• Vitamin K regulates blood clotting. A lack of vitamin K leads to an increase in blood clotting time, a reduced content of prothrombin in the blood.
• Chlorine necessary for the formation and secretion of hydrochloric acid in the body.
• Cobalt is part of vitamin B12. Activates the enzymes of fatty acid metabolism and folic acid metabolism.

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