Beetroot is a very useful plant, containing plant fibers, useful potassium compounds, vitamins, antioxidants and folic acid. Due to the wide distribution area used by people to eat since ancient times (edible and root crops, and leaves). Beets are included in the ingredients of many delicious and healthy dishes (mostly salads), sometimes used as a natural food color. Due to the high content of sugary substances from beet juice, you can prepare useful and tasty home-made wine. Also beets are used in traditional medicine. Beetroot in a fresh form lowers arterial blood pressure.
As we know, thermal processing of food products at temperatures above 80 degrees C usually lowers their usefulness (the brightest known exception is tomatoes). Therefore, it is worth learning how to use beets in fresh form (or marinated) - the benefits of fresh beet salads for our body will definitely be higher than if we cook it or bake it.
Recipe for a healthy salad from fresh beets
Ingredients:
- beetroot with leaves - 2-4 pcs. small size;
- nuts any - about 100-150 g;
- sesame seed - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- garlic - 2-3 cloves;
- vinegar, fruit, natural and / or lemon juice;
- vegetable oil of cold pressing (sunflower, corn, mustard or olive);
- fresh herbs (parsley, coriander, basil).
Preparation
Separate the root vegetables from the leaves, carefully rinse each and the other with cold water. We will clean the root vegetables with a vegetable knife. Now it is necessary to cut the beet with a meek fine straw, or small oblong rectangular slices, or you can grate the beets on a special grater for making Korean salads.
Nuts should be cleaned, if necessary, slightly calcined in a dry frying pan and grind or chop with a heavy knife. Also finely chopped peeled garlic and herbs, including, and beet greens.
Combine all the prepared ingredients in a salad bowl, add the sesame seed.
Prepare the dressing, mix the oil with vinegar and / or lemon juice in an approximate proportion of 3: 1 or 4: 1 and use this dressing salad. Let's stir the salad and leave the minutes for 10-20, let it lightly masturbate.
You can use as a dressing for a salad, natural sour cream, yogurt or natural live unsweetened yogurt (you can take matsun or other similar dairy products for this).
In the same way (following the recipe), you can prepare a salad of fresh beets and carrots. Carrots grate or grind with a knife.
Balkan salad from fresh beets
Ingredients:
- freshly grown beets (roots without leaves) - 2-4 pcs. small size;
- homemade goat cheese - about 400 g;
- red cabbage - 0.5 small fork;
- onion salad (white or red) - 1 piece;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- fresh herbs (parsley, coriander, basil, lovage);
- cold pressed vegetable oil;
- fruit vinegar.
Preparation
Cleaned beets with a knife, or a short thin straw, or oblong rectangular slices. Goat cheese is also cut into oblong small pieces or, if it
We chop the red cabbage, cut the onions into half rings. Garlic and greens chopped finely. All the ingredients are connected in a salad bowl. Pour salad dressing with butter and vinegar (3: 1). We mix it and let it stand for 10-20 minutes.
To such a salad it is good to serve salted or baked pork brisket, sliced, hominy or flat cakes, as well as homemade unsalted red wine or rakiyu.