A tasty and healthy beetroot salad with cheese (and garlic, eggs, apples, raisins, and other ingredients) will help diversify the family diet. This is especially true in the cold season, when there are practically no fresh (seasonal) vegetables for vitamin salads. Moreover, beets are a rather useful vegetable, thanks to which you can also improve your health.
This article describes several options for preparing salads from this root crop, as well as some recommendations on how to make the dish even more interesting and tasty. As well as the composition and usefulness of beets for human health.
Description
This vegetable has such an important property as the preservation of its useful qualities both in raw form and after heat treatment. Beets are good in dishes in boiled, baked, raw, pickled, fried and dried state.
From this vegetable you can prepare not only famous dishes (Salad "Fur", borsch "Ukrainian", soup "Beetroot", mashed boiled beets), but also many others.
Beetroot goes well with cheese (hard, processed, feta, goat), veal, fish, nuts, prunes, apples, herbs, garlic.
About the benefits of beets
It is difficult to overestimate how important those elements and vitamins that are in this vegetable are for the human body.
Beets are useful for:
- diseases of the gallbladder, liver;
- anemia;
- cardiovascular disease;
- constipation, hemorrhoids;
- anemia
- lack of vitality (tone);
- eye diseases and so on.
The beneficial and healing effects of the vegetable:
- improves blood circulation;
- cleanses the intestines;
- acts as a prophylactic against oncology;
- removes excess fluid from the body;
- works to strengthen the body.
What is this in beets?
The root crop has many useful vitamins and minerals: A, C, B (including folic acid), PP, phosphorus, iodine, calcium, iron, magnesium, potassium, fiber, carotenoids, lutein, and beneficial flavonoids.
And the most valuable thing is that all the properties of the vegetable are preserved, despite the state in which it is used (fried, cheese, boiled and so on).
The article discusses some recipes for beets with cheese - in combination with other products, moreover, beets in boiled, baked and even raw versions.
With nuts and eggs
Fast enough (in terms of preparation), nutritious and tasty beet salad with cheese and boiled eggs, which will bring fresh notes and vitamins to the family diet.
Description of the process and ingredients:
- Boil beets (300 grams) and chicken eggs (3 pieces), cool.
- Grind the peeled vegetable with a coarse grater.
- Prepare a deep salad bowl, in which all components will be stacked in layers.
- Make the bottom layer of beets, grease with mayonnaise (only 100 grams).
- Grind walnut kernels (100 grams), put on mayonnaise.
- Wipe the eggs on a fine grater and hard cheese (100 grams) one by one, make the following - lush layers (do not tamp).
- Put mayonnaise on the cheese.
- Garnish with halves of roasted peanuts and herbs.
Such beauty and goodies will surely delight loved ones, relatives and friends.
With baked beets and arugula
This recipe will come in handy for the New Year: a bright, elegant, healthy and very tasty salad (a special combination of the main vegetable and arugula) - will not leave anyone indifferent.
Description of the process and components:
- Bake whole beets (250 grams), cool and peel, chop into strips.
- Grind arugula (200 grams).
- Prepare a salad bowl, put the arugula at the bottom, on top - the main vegetable.
- Fry pine nuts (30 grams).
- Prepare a sauce of whipped olive oil (50 ml), apple cider vinegar (15 ml) and salt (10 grams).
- Pour the mixture evenly over the salad.
- Finely chop the ricotta cheese and add to the dish.
- Sprinkle with cedar kernels.
Baked beetroot salad with cheese and arugula is ready.
With cream cheese and garlic
The dish is very simple to prepare, but the result is hearty, aromatic and beautiful. According to the time required for the process itself - 10 minutes (except for boiling the main vegetable).
Making beetroot salad with melted cheese:
- Boil the main vegetable (150 grams), cool, remove the skin and grind with a coarse grater or for Korean carrots, put in a dish.
- Fry walnuts (100 grams), chop to medium size.
- Rub the processed cheese through a coarse grater (100 grams), add to the beets and mix.
- Pour walnuts.
- Chop the garlic (15 grams) with the help of the garlic and add to the salad.
- Season the dish with mayonnaise (20 milliliters), mix.
The salad is ready - you can serve it to the table. Add salt if necessary.
Spicy
This dish is especially useful for men, because in addition to beets and cheese in its composition, carrots, raisins, apples, garlic, nuts.
You can cook such a spicy dish for your beloved on the day of all lovers, laying out in the shape of a heart.
Description of the process and ingredients:
- Boil the beets (200 grams), chilled, free from the peel and grate, put the first layer, grease with mayonnaise (after each layer is repeated).
- Grind roasted peanuts (100 grams), put in a second layer.
- Raw carrots (200 grams), peel and grind with a grater, put the third layer.
- Steam raisins (20 grams) in hot water, put in a dish with the fourth layer.
- Pass the peeled apple (100 grams) through a grater and add to the salad (5 layer).
- Grind hard (100 grams) and processed (100 grams) cheeses using a grater and put in 6 layers.
- Skip the garlic through the garlic (15 grams), sprinkle the dish.
Serve beetroot salad with cheese and garlic, raisins and other ingredients chilled. It is recommended to decorate with nuts on top.
With feta cheese
An amazing combination of beets with different varieties of cheeses helps to create truly real culinary masterpieces - with a minimum of ingredients. An example of this recipe.
Beetroot salad with feta cheese, herbs and olive oil - this is an appropriate addition to meat dishes or a light dinner for women who are caring for a figure.
Description of the cooking process and components:
- Boil the beets (150 grams), peel and cool, chop with medium cubes.
- Leaves of fresh herbs - arugula, chard, spinach and others (in the amount of 50 grams) - pre-wash, dry and put in a salad bowl.
- Put the beets evenly on the greens.
- Squeeze juice (15 ml) from fresh lemon and pour over salad.
- Season the dish with olive oil (20 ml).
- Chop the cheese (80 grams) with medium cubes and decorate the dish.
- Add salt and black pepper.
With tofu cheese and honey
Enough diet recipe, which includes vegetable soy cheese tofu (you can cook yourself). Such a dish will especially appeal to all fasting, as well as leading a healthy lifestyle.
Preparation and ingredients:
- Sugar (30 grams) put in a saucepan and heat until it turns brown.
- Pour wine vinegar (8 ml), drinking water (50 ml), salt (10 grams) into sugar, cook until smooth.
- Pre-boil the beets (300 grams), peel and chop into large cubes.
- Soak each piece of vegetable in the prepared mixture.
- Dressing is prepared from honey (20 ml), olive oil (50 ml) and soy sauce (30 ml), mix, beat until smooth.
- Wash and dry the fresh lettuce (50 grams), tear with your hands and put in a salad bowl, pour dressing.
- Add beets.
- Chop tofu cheese (50 grams) in medium slices and put in a dish.
- Grind walnuts, slightly dried, in an amount of 50 grams and pour into a salad, mix and serve.
Raw Beet Salads
Who would have thought that cooked beets are also tasty, original in combination with other ingredients and healthy.
Cooking them is just as simple and easy, and most importantly - quickly (because there is no additional need to cook or bake the main vegetable).
It is believed that dishes from raw root vegetables are food only for persistent and strong-spirited people.
There are a lot of recipes for raw beet and cheese salads. And in order to make these dishes especially tasty, nutritious and healthy, there are some recommendations regarding the combination of components and cooking features:
- most often, raw beets are added to the salad along with walnuts, dried fruits (dried apricots, prunes, raisins), other vegetables (carrots, potatoes, cabbage), greens;
- the main vegetable must be selected the "right" variety (soft, sweet), then the finished dish will be especially tasty and enjoyable;
- raw beets are recommended to be chopped with a coarse grater.
With cheese and apples
Vitamin, fragrant, delicious salad will delight everyone who leads a healthy lifestyle, as well as vegetarians and raw foodists.
Hard cheese can be replaced with vegetable (tofu), and mayonnaise for dressing with homemade lean.
Making beetroot salad with cheese and mayonnaise:
- Peel the root crop (300 grams) and grind it using a coarse grater.
- Prepare apples (200 grams) by removing the peel and seeds, grate and pour over the beets.
- Grind hard cheese (50 grams) with a coarse grater and add to the dish.
- Pass the garlic (10 grams) through the garlic, pour to the rest of the ingredients.
- Make dressing for the dressing by combining mayonnaise (100 ml), sour cream (100 ml) and chopped dill (20 grams).
- Pour over the salad and mix.
After 15 minutes, the dish is ready and it can be served immediately on the table.
With tuna and celery
A salad in which all components are selected especially carefully, but at the same time it is very simple to prepare. And yet, a fairly long time can be stored.
Process description:
- Put in a small container of canned tuna (200 grams), knead with a fork.
- Prepare carrots (150 grams) and beets (200 grams) - peel and chop into strips.
- Fresh cucumber (100 grams) cut into halves of circles.
- Hard cheese (100 grams) - chopped into cubes.
- Grind celery (20 grams) and lemon (100 grams).
- In olives (200 grams) pitted, remove the liquid component.
- Put the salad in a deep dish in the following order: carrots with beets, cucumber, tuna, lemon, olives, celery, cheese.
Serve this elegant and original salad with beets and cheese in portions, separately - dressing (olive or other vegetable oil), as well as salt and spices.
Summary
Of course, the article considers only a few recipes for beet salad with cheese (with eggs, garlic, apples, nuts and so on), but they are interesting and unique in their own way. And also simple, versatile and amenable to the experimental mood of the hostess.