Beets are a source of many vitamins and minerals. With the help of this simple product, people were treated in ancient times. Beet was forbidden to be used as a regular food because of its life-giving juice and pulp. Because of beet’s benefits, it was offered to the gods as a gift.
Later, the healing properties of beets were forgotten when medicines appeared. However, in cooking beets have found a second life. The vegetable is still used to make soups, salads, and second courses. In China there are desserts from beets in the form of ice cream.
Let’s tell you how to make an unpretentious beet salad.
Ingredients for beet salad:
- Beets – 1 kg;
- Onion – 1 pc;
- Vegetable oil;
- Ketchup – 3 tbsp;
- Salt – 1 tsp;
- Garlic – 2 cloves;
- Dill.
Preparation of beet salad:
Boil to readiness beets, peel and cut into bars.
Similarly cut onions, fry them in vegetable oil until soft.
In the
frying
pan to the onions add tomato paste, stir. Pour water to the onions and stew them for 2 minutes.
Sprinkle be
ets with
salt, pour water over them and leave them to stew under a lid for 50 minutes.
Chop dill,
put
garlic cloves through a press to the cooked beets.
Put the beet salad on a plate
,
sprinkle with dill
.
You get a simple salad from a couple of ingredients.
