Beetroot Soup is a shapeless crafting recipe that uses 7 items: 6 Beetroot and 1 Bowl. The position of the ingredients does not matter — put them into any free slots of the grid. It needs the full 3×3 grid, so you have to use a crafting table.
You need 6 Beetroot and 1 Bowl — 7 items in total, arranged as shown in the crafting grid. The recipe gives you 1× Beetroot Soup.
Yes. The recipe needs the full 3×3 grid, which only a crafting table offers.
It is shapeless: the ingredients can go into any slots of the crafting grid.