Beet salad is a dish that is made from cooked beets and other ingredients. Beets have many health benefits and contain vitamins, minerals and antioxidants.
Beet salad can be either a simple and light dish or a more complex and hearty one, depending on the recipe and additional ingredients. Beet salad can include nuts, cheese, fruits, vegetables, herbs and various dressings based on vegetable oil, sour cream or mayonnaise.
Salads can be warm or cold, sweet or salty, spicy or tender
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Beet salad is suitable for vegetarian and Lenten menus, and can also become a decoration of the holiday table.
Ingredients:
- Beets – 1 pc;
- Carrots – 2 pcs;
- Cheese – 80 g;
- Garlic – 1 clove;
- Parsley – a few sprigs;
Ingredients for homemade mayonnaise:
- Milk – 100 ml;
- Lemon juice – 2 tbsp;
- Vegetable oil – 200 ml;
- Mustard – 1 tsp;
- Salt – 1/2 tsp;
- Sugar – 1 tsp.
Preparation of beet salad:
Boil or bake to readiness beets and carrots, peel the vegetables and grate them on a coarse grater in one bowl. Similarly grate the cheese and lay out to the vegetables.
Shinchuem parsley, add to the salad along with a clove of garlic, run through a press. For mayonnaise, pour milk and vegetable oil into a jar, whisk with an immersion blender for 20 seconds.
Add lemon juice, salt, sugar and mustard to the mixture, continue to whisk until thickened. Add a couple of spoonfuls of mayonnaise to the salad, stir.
You can also chop walnuts into the salad if desired. It turns out quite useful tasty salad for every day.
