Beets are one of the most affordable and wholesome foods. From it you can prepare many delicious dishes for both everyday and festive menus. This product is very popular among devotees of good nutrition.
What beets are combined with
What dishes can this vegetable be added to? Beetroot goes well with almost any traditional Slavic cuisine products. It can be added to salads and snacks, as well as to main dishes.
Modern housewives also manage to use this vegetable in desserts, and not only as a natural dye, but also as the main ingredient. Boiled beets are often used in many salads. Vegetable is used in beetroot recipes in different cuisines of the world.
It is taken for cooking the first dishes. This product is one of the main in dietary and vegetarian nutrition. It is used in the preparation of both everyday and holiday menus.
Traditional borsch
This beetroot dish can be prepared quickly and tasty by any housewife. Borsch is traditional in Slavic cuisine. In Ukraine, this is the first dish prepared in every family.
To prepare borsch in a 3-liter pan, you need to take:
- 5-6 pieces of peeled raw medium-sized potatoes;
- 1 onion;
- 1 large carrot;
- 1 beetroot;
- half a head of cabbage;
- 1 chicken fillet or 300 g of pork;
- tomato paste (150 g) or tomatoes (3 pcs.);
- bay leaf and greens.
Garlic lovers can use it during cooking or add a little directly to the plate before serving.
First you need to cook the broth. To do this, you need to collect water in a pan and put the meat there. Chicken broth is cooked no more than 40-60 minutes, and from pork - about 1.6 - 2 hours.
At this time, you can peel the vegetables. After the broth has been prepared, potatoes are cut into it, cut into small cubes. Then you need to do the frying for borsch. To do this, chop the onion into small cubes, and carrots and beets rub on a fine grater.
You can cut all the vegetables into strips. This method is great in summer and early spring, when carrots and beets are still young and cook quickly. First, fry the onion for 10 minutes in sunflower oil. Then beets and carrots are added. In season, you can add sweet pepper, cut into strips.
The grill should languish in a pan for 15-20 minutes over low heat. Then tomato paste or finely chopped tomatoes are added to it. This whole mixture is stewed for another 15-20 minutes. At this time, it is necessary to chop the cabbage into small strips and place in a pot where potatoes are cooked.
There, too, roasting spills out. Borsch should still boil for at least 20-30 minutes. At the end of cooking, add bay leaf and chopped greens to it. Serve it with mayonnaise or sour cream. In addition to borsch, garlic buns are perfect , which you can buy ready-made in the store or cook them yourself.
The vinaigrette
Recipes from boiled beets are very popular among housewives. Vinaigrette belongs to this category on the menu. Its cost is minimal, and the benefits are very high. Vinaigrette will be an excellent option on the menu during fasting and dieting.
To prepare this dish, you must prepare the following large boiled vegetables:
- 1 beetroot;
- 1 carrot;
- 3 potatoes;
- 150 g of beans.
It is also necessary to take 1 onion, 150-200 g of sauerkraut and pickled cucumber.
All vegetables, except beans, are cut into small cubes. Cabbage and boiled beans are also placed here. It is better to fill the dish with sunflower oil. All ingredients mix well. The salad is ready, and without the use of potatoes, it can be attributed to a beet diet dish.
Herring under a Fur Coat
A strange name hides everyone’s favorite salad, without which more than one holiday could not do without 20-30 years ago. Each housewife considered it her duty to cook it on the New Year's table.
Now this simple and tasty beetroot dish is still popular, but it is prepared for everyday meals. The ingredients in this salad are quite inexpensive and cost slightly more than vinaigrette.
To prepare herring under a fur coat, it is necessary to prepare:
- 1 herring;
- 2-3 small boiled potatoes;
- 1 large beetroot;
- 1 onion;
- 1 carrot;
- 250-300 g of mayonnaise.
This salad is preferably prepared on a large plate of oblong shape or in two herring. Beetroot vegetables must be boiled in advance. The herring needs to be cleaned and cut into small squares, while all bones are removed with tweezers. Onions are chopped, like fish, and pickled in water with vinegar and sugar.
Salad is laid out in layers. For the first, you need to grate beets in a small amount to the bottom on a fine grater. Then the next layer is laid out - potato chopped on a grater. It is plentifully greased with mayonnaise.
The next is the herring and on top of the onion. Then carrots are processed on a fine grater and the next layer is organized. The remaining beets must also be grated. The last layer is laid out in sufficient quantity to completely cover the dish with this vegetable.
In conclusion, you need to grease the whole salad well with mayonnaise. It is advisable to refrigerate it for several hours so that all layers are saturated. This quick beetroot recipe has become a tradition in many homes.
Beetroot soup
On a hot summer day, one does not always want to use hot soup or borsch as the first dish. Okroshka is also annoying in the summer if you cook it all the time. In this case, the beetroot will be an original beetroot dish that can be cooked quickly and tasty even by a young hostess without experience.
For the preparation of beetroot, expensive products are not required. To prepare this dish, you need to take:
- potatoes - 2 pcs.;
- eggs - 2 pcs.;
- beets - 3 pcs.;
- green onions;
- fresh cucumbers - 2 pcs.;
- salt and spices to taste.
Pour 2 liters of water into the pan. Beets are peeled and boiled in this container until fully cooked. Then the vegetable is rubbed on a fine grater or interrupted by a blender. Fluids must be allowed to cool completely. Beets spill into her.
Pre-cooked potatoes are cut into small cubes and sprinkled in a pan. Cucumbers and greens are also processed finely and placed in beetroot. The finished dish must be salted to taste and add your favorite spices in a small amount.
When serving, put a quarter of a boiled chicken egg in each plate. Beetroot is used cold. This recipe for beets will surely take root in any family. It will not only benefit as a large amount of vitamin, but also satisfy the taste of the gourmet.
Beetroot recipes: quick and tasty
All people who attended kindergarten or ate in public canteens are familiar with the tasty and simple dish. Beetroot salad does not require much time and cost.
To prepare it you will need:
- beets - 1 pc.;
- pickled cucumber - 1 pc.;
- vegetable oil;
- garlic - 1-2 cloves (optional).
Boil beets in advance. Then she grates with a cucumber. As a sauce, sunflower oil is used. If desired, you can add garlic squeezed by a special device.
Another version of such a salad can be made by the same principle, only mayonnaise is used as a sauce. This recipe does not use pickles, but garlic is added.
In all variations, carrots can be used. Then the salads will be even more healthy. Dishes from beets and carrots will appeal to all family members and will be an excellent source of vitamins in the winter.
Beetroot Fish Recipes
At first, this combination seems very strange. But only people who have never tried such dishes can think so. For cooking, you can use any fish fillet.
The total cooking time is about 6 minutes. The hostess’s physical costs are no more than half an hour. To prepare this quick beetroot dish you will need:
- 700 g of any fish fillet;
- 500 g of beets;
- 150 g of cottage cheese;
- 1 onion;
- butter - 30 g;
- 1 egg
- 1 tbsp. a spoonful of potato starch;
- 2 tbsp. tablespoons of lemon juice;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- spices to taste.
Raw beets are peeled and chopped on a fine grater. Lemon juice is added here. To prepare it, you need half the fruit. This mixture is set aside to marinate the beets.
The onion is cut into half rings. Then it is fried until golden in sunflower oil. Beets are transferred to a colander and a little squeezed from excess lemon juice. It is added to the onion in a pan and simmered over low heat with the addition of butter for at least 15-20 minutes (you need to stir constantly).
This is where the garlic processed through the press and the necessary spices are placed. This mixture languishes for a few more minutes on fire and turns off. It must be completely cooled. Then cottage cheese, starch and a raw egg are added here. You can use Philadelphia cheese to get a more piquant taste.
Thawed fish fillets must be salt and pepper on both sides. You need to cover the baking dish with a sheet of foil. It is smeared with sunflower oil a little.
A beetroot mass is laid out in a thin layer here. Fish fillet and small pieces of butter are placed on it. Then all this is sprinkled with a sufficient amount of fresh or frozen dill.
On top, the fillet is closed with the remaining beetroot mass and is well leveled with hands or a knife with a thick blade. The resulting dish is completely wrapped in foil. Put in a preheated oven for 3 minutes. Served baked fish fillet can be both hot and cold.
Diet food
This menu always uses a lot of different vegetables. The recipes for delicious beetroot dishes in this category are quite simple and can be prepared very quickly with minimal cash costs.
For example, to prepare a diet salad you will need: 2 small beets, 2 green apples and 100 g feta cheese. All ingredients are cut into strips and mixed using olive oil. The preparation of this dish will take no more than 15 minutes and it will bring a lot of health benefits.
Another variation of healthy salad will appeal to people who adhere to a healthy diet. For it, you need to boil one large beet and cut it into small strips.
Prunes and grated parmesan are added here. When stirring, use balsamic vinegar. When served from above, you can decorate with a variety of chopped greens.
A traditional Georgian snack will also be an excellent option during a diet. To prepare phali you will need:
- 3 boiled small beets;
- 500 g of cabbage;
- 1 onion;
- cilantro;
- hops-suneli;
- wine vinegar;
- garlic.
Cabbage needs to be coarsely chopped and boiled until half cooked in salted water. Then it is transferred to a colander to the remaining liquid to the end of the glass. Then all the ingredients are placed in a blender and beat well until a homogeneous paste is obtained. This mixture is refrigerated for several hours.
To serve, it is necessary to make small patties from this mixture. This beetroot dish needs to be eaten cold. You can also use the resulting mass as a paste.
Recipes for delicious beetroot dishes: desserts
Skilled housewives can use this vegetable to make sweets. Often, beet juice is used as a natural dye. But there are desserts where this vegetable acts as one of the main ingredients.
Pancakes with beets will be an original addition to the table and will please the taste of guests. To prepare them, you must prepare:
- milk 250 ml;
- beetroot juice - 100 g;
- 1 tsp salts;
- 3 tbsp. l Sahara;
- 5 tbsp. l vegetable oil.
To get the juice, you need to grate one beetroot and squeeze out the liquid through cheesecloth. Of all the ingredients, the dough is kneaded and pancakes are baked.
With beets, you can make a chocolate cake. For this recipe you will need:
- beets - 200 g;
- sugar - 200 g;
- flour - 200 g;
- eggs - 2 pcs.;
- butter - 100 g;
- cocoa powder - 2 tbsp. l .;
- vegetable oil - 100 ml;
- dark chocolate - 150 g;
- salt, vanilla, baking powder.
All dry ingredients are mixed first. Chocolate and butter should be put in a water bath and melt. Boil the beets in advance and grind them with a blender to a pulp consistency. You can use a fine grater.
Chocolate, yolks, vegetable oil and sugar are added here. Well-whipped proteins mix well and pour in. All dry weight is put here and mixes well.
The finished dough is placed neatly in a mold and baked in the oven, heated to 180 0 . Then the pie must be put on the dish and allowed to cool. On top of it, you can sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Beetroot Ice Cream
This dessert has become very popular in Europe in recent years. Our skilled housewives were able to remake this dish from beets for cooking at home. For it is necessary to prepare:
- 300 g baked beets;
- 6 pcs egg yolks;
- 10% cream (500 ml);
- sugar 150-180 g;
- cocoa powder - 50 g;
- chocolate - 60 g;
- orange peel;
- salt floor tsp
This amount of ingredients is enough for 5 small servings of 150 g.
Beets need to be cut into small cubes and darkened with cream over low heat for about 30 minutes. At this time, you need to beat the yolks with sugar until a thick foam of light color is obtained.
Beetroot mass must be beaten with a blender until a homogeneous consistency is obtained. Add cocoa and salt to this and transfer back to the pan. Whipped yolks slowly pour into this mass, constantly intensively mixed. This mixture must be boiled over low heat until boiling.
Then you need to strain the mass and add the zest of one orange to it. Transfer to a convenient container and place in the refrigerator. After the mass is completely cooled, it must be transferred to the ice cream maker and the dessert prepared according to the instructions.
Before serving, grate with grated chocolate. If there is no special equipment, then you can use the freezer. In several stages, you need to put the mass there for 2 hours. When getting out, it is necessary to split it with a metal spoon so that in the end the ice cream does not crystallize.