It is believed that beet salads began to be made in the Soviet Union. Thus, cooks replaced a large number of exotic products with more affordable ones. The fact is that initially all dishes were prepared according to recipes from cookbooks of pre-revolutionary time. Accordingly, in order not to adopt capitalist ingredients, they skillfully tried to replace them.
Fortunately for the Soviet people, cooks quite competently made the replacement of rare vegetables with familiar ones. One of the favorite root vegetables for salads was beets. It was believed that it had all the necessary flavor qualities for most dishes. In
addition, beets are very useful for the body. These arguments served to ensure that in the future, the root vegetable constantly appeared in Soviet canteens in
one
or another viand.
We will try to interest you in one simple and tasty beet salad with peppers
.
Ingredients for beet salad:
- beets – 600 g;
- coriander – tsp;
- onion – 2 pcs;
- 9% vinegar – 2 tbsp;
- sweet pepper – ½ piece;
- sugar – tbsp;
- garlic – clove;
- salt – tsp.
Preparation of beet salad:
Beets need to be peeled from the peel, chopped on medium grater sharps. Combine the beet mass with salt, knead the mixture well with your hands. Leave the beets to give juice for 10 minutes.
During this period of time, cut the onion into quarter rings. The vegetable should be fried in vegetable oil until golden in color.
From the beets we drain the excess juice, add sugar, vinegar and coriander. After mixing the beets with the ingredients, it is necessary to integrate the chopped garlic clove and fried onions into the root vegetable.
Cut the sweet pepper into small slices, lay out to the beet salad. Cover the dish with food film, leave in the refrigerator for an hour.
Vegetables during this time have time to color in a beautiful beet color.
We advise to serve the salad with roasted sesame seeds.
