It is difficult to overestimate the beneficial effect on the body of such a vegetable as beets. It increases hemoglobin, helps to improve the digestive reactions of the body. In addition, the root crop is tasty. Many people love it and use it in home cooking as part of various dishes. Today we have fried beets with onions for lunch.
Vegetable appetizer will be a good addition to potatoes. And also it can be consumed with meat dishes and even added to pasta.
Composition of vegetable snacks
Before you cook fried beets with onions, check the availability of the following products:
- Two to three root beets of medium diameter beets.
- One bulb is large and juicy.
- Three tablespoons of lean fat. The oil should not have a pronounced smell of sunflower.
- Salt. The amount of this ingredient should be taken based on your preferences.
- Sugar tastes good.
- Any kind of ground pepper.
In this recipe for beets fried with onions, the amount of pepper is also taken to taste. You can completely cancel this ingredient if you do not like even a slight pungency. The taste of a vegetable snack will not suffer from such liberties.
Preliminary preparation of vegetables
The main component for cooking fried beets with onions needs to be properly prepared. Treatment requires a certain amount of composure. To bring the beets to a state where they can already be fried, you will need to invest time and energy. Onions are a little easier.
First, let's take root crops. We wash all the specimens very well using a soft brush for vegetables. Cut the front and back of the beets. Thinly peel off a dense peel. Juice is very colored, so keep a bowl of cold water nearby to rinse your palms as often as possible. Place the cleaned washed root vegetables on the dish until we need them.
Onions must also be peeled. Cut the place where thin roots grow, as well as the back of the vegetable. Rinse the onion with cold water too. Put on a beetroot dish.
Pre-remove the spices from the cupboard, so you don’t rush around the kitchen trying to find them.
Grater or knife?
There is no single correct way to grind the ingredients for fried beets with onions. Usually, a fine fraction grater is used for beets - if you need a uniform consistency, similar to porridge. It turns out more textured when the root crop is rubbed through the large holes of the grater.
Lovers of this vegetable cut the main ingredient into thin cubes using a sharp knife and a board. Aesthetes prepare products for fried beets with onions, chopping it into small cubes. Even chopping with a meat grinder does not spoil the taste of the snack. However, depending on the way the beets are processed, the hue of taste will change. When chopping the root crop, you need to wait six to ten minutes, so that the beets are separated from the juice. Juice is not useful to us: drain it.
How to process onions - each culinary decides for himself. Here again, you need to listen to your own desires. Onions are chopped in half rings, small cubes or medium.
Fried beets with onions: recipe step by step
First step. We use good dishes, so we extract the most thick-bottomed frying pan with rather high sides.
Step Two Pour all the vegetable oil intended for the recipe into the pan.
Third step. We heat the dishes over moderate heat, waiting for the oil to start hissing barely audibly.
Fourth step. Onions are sent to be fried until a pleasant shade is obtained.
Fifth step. Pour grated or chopped beets into the bowels of the pan, combine with onions and cover for five minutes. Reduce the heat to very moderate. Now the composition does not need to be salted.
Step Six Open the dishes with vegetable mass. We mix and, having slightly added temperature, we will cook until all liquid has evaporated. We introduce salt and pepper in the middle of the process of frying vegetables.
Seventh step. When the excess juice has evaporated, brown the beets, fried with onions, to the necessary condition. We taste it. When the root crop was not sweet enough, you can add sugar (a pinch) and, having mixed the snack, warm it for another one or two minutes.
The dish is ready! What is good about such an appetizer is that it can be consumed in any form. There are fans of hot fried beets, but someone would prefer the cold option.
Cooking nuances
Not everyone may like the look of the finished snack. If you like beets to have a bright color even in such a dish, add some lemon juice or replace it with 6% table vinegar.
Attention! Do not confuse vinegar and vinegar essence (acid). These are two completely different products. Acid is a very concentrated vinegar, and in no case should it be consumed in its pure form.
If only this product was found in your kitchen, that's okay. On the label there is a memo, thanks to which you will be able to independently prepare table 6% vinegar.
If you add several garlic cloves during the frying process of vegetables, you get a savory snack.