A type of soup from Russia made from cabbage.(noun)
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Use "shchi" in a sentence
"And if that doesn't take your fancy you could always get stuck into the nation's favourite dish of cabbage soup known as shchi or, as an alternative, Rassolnik - a salty-sour cucumber stew."
"Inside, guests sat down to a five-course meal including Siberian pelmeni, a ravioli-like dish filled with venison, and green shchi soup, with chicken and sorrel."
"There's another way to describe borshch that doesn't contain beets; shchi ... although it normally wouldn't have tomatoes in it."