Beets are a useful source of vitamins and minerals for the human body. Beets were used in ancient times to treat various diseases. In the Middle Ages beets were already used as a cosmetic agent. Beets were used to make lipsticks and rouge. Girls from the nobility and landowners were engaged in such cases.
Later beet again became a medicinal remedy. Only now beets were combined with other drugs.
In the history of cooking beets have a huge weight because of the iconic recipes for borscht, vinaigrette and Herring under Shuba. Let’s prepare another beet salad.
Ingredients for beet salad:
- Beets – 1 pc;
- Carrots – 1 pc;
- Peking cabbage – 200 g;
- Onion – 2 pcs;
- Vegetable oil – 50 ml;
- Garlic – 3 cloves;
- Salt – ½ tsp;
- Coriander – a pinch;
- Black pepper – a pinch;
- Dried basil – ½ tsp;
- Lemon juice – 2 tsp.
Preparation of beet salad:
Peel and grate beets and carrots on a Korean-style grater.
Chop coarsely Peking cabbage, add to beets and carrots.
Cut quarter rings onion, fry in a frying pan in vegetable oil until soft and put in the salad.
Press garlic cloves through the press, add to the rest of the ingredients
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Salt and pepper the salad, add dried basil and coriander
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Pour lemon juice into the salad and mix thoroughly.
We get a simple salad from fresh beets. For this recipe, you do not need to boil the vegetables.
