Borscht (also
borsht or
borshch) is a
vegetable soup from
Eastern Europe. It is traditionally made with
beetroot as a main ingredient
[1][2] which gives it a strong red color. Other, non-beet varieties also exist, such as the
tomato paste-based orange borscht and the green (zelioni) borscht (
sorrel soup).
The soup is a staple part of the local culinary heritage of many Eastern and Central European nations.
It made its way into North American cuisine and English vernacular by way of Jewish, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, and other immigrants. Alternative spellings are borshch[3] and borsch.[4]
It is called in various languages Lithuanian baršciai, Polish barszcz, Romanian bor?, Russian and Ukrainian ????, borshch, Yiddish ?????, borscht.
