Borscht

There are dozens of recipes for borscht—from simple vegetable soups with a couple of chopped beets thrown in to complicated whole-meal affairs made with pork, beef, sausages, and even duck. More traditional recipes also call for a few tricky ingredients. Some of these recipes call for fermenting the beets a couple of days in advance, while others call for kvass, a kind of rye beer that means a trip to a Polish or Russian market or making it yourself. In Polish markets kvass is called zur naturalny.