Beetroot is a fairly popular product from which culinary specialists can prepare a wide variety of dishes: first, main, main, as well as cold snacks. But salads based on this vegetable are especially popular, and they can be prepared in a variety of ways. This material contains the most original and delicious recipes for beet salads with photos.
Beetroot salad with dor blue cheese
Light and very tasty salad, suitable for lunch or as a complement to the main course. According to the recipe, the beets for this salad are pre-baked in the oven and only after that is already processed. Therefore, before cooking, it should be borne in mind that preparing the main ingredient can take quite a lot of time.
To prepare a dish for 3-4 servings, it will be necessary to take four beets (medium size), up to 200 g of lettuce, about 150 g of blue cheese, 100 g of peeled walnuts.
Salad dressing will be made from honey, dark balsamic vinegar and olive oil. The proportions of the sauce are as follows: for 1 tablespoon of honey, 3 tablespoons of balsamic and olive oil.
Cooking process
First you will need to prepare the main ingredient. To do this, you need to take beets of approximately the same size, rinse well, grate with vegetable or olive oil, sprinkle with sea salt. Put on a baking sheet, cover with foil and bake in the oven for one hour at a temperature of 170 degrees.
Note! The cooking time of the product can significantly change up and down, it all depends on the size of the root crop. The readiness of the product is best checked with a toothpick, if the vegetable inside is soft, then it is ready for use, if not, put it back in the oven.
While preparing the main product, you can do salad dressing. To do this, mix olive oil, honey and balsamic vinegar in the proportions that were indicated a little higher. Dressing can be improved by adding dill to it, which will need to be chopped in a blender. Greens will give an unusual aroma.
Salad cutting and assembly
So, we proceed directly to the preparation of a delicious beet salad according to the recipe with a photo. The vegetable must be peeled and cut into strips or small cubes. Slicing should not be very large. Fry nuts in a pan a little, combine these two ingredients in a bowl, pour a small amount of dressing and mix.
Take a plate, lay lettuce on it, lay the beets with nuts on top. Cut dorblu cheese into small cubes, sprinkle salad on it, pour everything with a sufficiently large amount of cooked sauce.
The dish can be decorated with greens, and it will be ready to serve.
Salad with mint, oranges and beets
In this case, cooked beetroot salad. Immediately it is worth noting that there is a rather extravagant combination of all products, however, despite this, the final result exceeds all expectations. Also, as in the past case, the salad is best consumed as lunch or as an addition to the main course. But the salad can come to a celebration in nature as a light and unobtrusive original snack, served before waiting for meat dishes.
Product List
To prepare this culinary innovation, you should take a few pieces of beets, 80 g of goat cheese, 2 oranges, arugula and lettuce. In this recipe, meat products are not included, but if desired, you can also put about 150 g of fried chicken fillet (best grilled). The dish also includes a small amount of walnuts.
The sauce is based on peppermint and olive oil, so you will also need to take these two products and a small amount of dried basil and oregano.
Note! Many people categorically do not accept arugula due to the fact that it is too bitter. In fact, the right greens should not have such a taste, you should take only small leaves of arugula, then they smell pleasant and do not bitter. Large sheets of this green are unsuitable for normal consumption, despite the fact that they are often sold a lot on store shelves.
How to cook a salad
To ensure that everything works out at the highest level and without problems, it is recommended that you follow the step-by-step instructions exactly:
- The first step is to put the cooked main product. Rinse the beets and place them in a pot of water without cleaning, put on fire, you can add about 50-80 ml of ordinary vinegar, in which case the vegetable will not lose its saturated color.
- While the beets are preparing, you can not waste time and prepare a dressing for our salad. To do this, place a small amount of mint in a blender bowl, squeeze the juice of one orange, add basil and oregano. Pour everything into 100 ml of olive oil and beat in a blender until smooth.
- When the beets are ready, they should be peeled and grated in Korean for carrots. It is after processing on such a grater that the vegetable acquires an interesting appearance.
- Now you need to rinse the salad and arugula, drain the greens and gently lay them on a plate with a slide. Put prepared beets and peeled orange slices on it.
- Pour a little sauce over the dish.
- Next, you need to slightly fry the walnuts until golden brown and cut the goat cheese into small cubes. Garnish with a few leaves of mint, basil, pour the remaining mint sauce, and a salad of cooked beets will be ready.
Goat cheese is a rather specific product, so it can be replaced. The rest of the ingredients are best feta cheese.
Salad with boiled eggs and beets
A very nutritious dish that can be consumed as breakfast or lunch. Also, this salad is appropriate to put on the banquet table, it will be a great snack and a real decoration. Beetroot salad with garlic and eggs has an original taste and aroma. Everyone should definitely try it.
To prepare a delicious beet salad (pictured), a company of 6-8 people should take 8 eggs, three large enough beets or 6 small ones, one large onion, balyk - 200 g, mayonnaise, 50 g green onions, black ground pepper .
Cooking method
As in previous recipes, the first thing you need to do is prepare the main ingredient. In this case, beets need to be baked. First it should be peeled and, if a large vegetable, cut in half. Sprinkle the root vegetable oil and salt, wrap each half in foil, put on a baking sheet and bake in the oven for 45 minutes at 160 degrees. If the beets are large enough, then the cooking time may change upwards. When the vegetable has cooled, you need to cut it into cubes ~ 1 per 1 centimeter.
While the beets are baked, you can put the boiled eggs. To do this, they need to be put in a pot of water, add a large amount of salt (so they will be better cleaned) and boil them for 8-10 minutes, after which the product must immediately be immersed in cold water. Otherwise, the cooking process will continue for some time and the yolk will become unappetizing blue.
Peel the eggs and cut them into 4-6 parts. Chop green onions into small rings, and onions into strips. Balyk also needs to be cut into strips or small cubes, if desired. You can fry it a little, then the salad will get a more pronounced taste of smoked meats. Mayonnaise is used as a prescription, so you do not need to cook any sauce separately. It is enough to take a few cloves of garlic, grate them on a fine grater and stir with mayonnaise and black pepper.
All of the above ingredients should be mixed in one large bowl, add mayonnaise. There is no concrete indication of the amount of this sauce, but it should just soak all the ingredients and make them juicier, no more. You do not need to add too much of this product so that it subsequently floats at the bottom of the plate.
The dish can be decorated with several beautiful pieces of beets and feathers of green onions.
Light summer beetroot salad
Surely many people do not even realize that such two products as strawberries and beets can be combined in one dish. In fact, they are very in harmony with each other, in addition, the remaining ingredients perfectly combine the tastes of the products into a single whole composition. This salad is a great option for a summer lunch, during the ripening season of strawberries.
To prepare a delicious beet salad for one person, you should take this amount of ingredients:
- low-fat cottage cheese - 100 g;
- beets - 1 pc. (the vegetable should be small or just measure out 100 g);
- strawberries - 10 pcs.;
- lettuce - 50 g;
- natural yogurt and ½ orange juice.
How to cook
This recipe uses boiled beets, so first of all it is necessary to do its cooking, as this is the longest process. Boil the vegetable in a peel, along with the addition of a small amount of vinegar. It is best to check the readiness of beets with a toothpick, it should be soft.
When the beets are ready, they should be cut into thin slices. It is best to take a small vegetable and cut it into whole circles and lay out in a circle around the plate, then the dish will have an original appearance.
After this, you need to take strawberries, rinse thoroughly and cut into 4 parts, if the berries are small, then cut in half. Now you need to take ordinary natural yogurt, where to squeeze the juice from half a lemon, mix everything thoroughly.
Put cottage cheese in a bowl; it needs to be knead a little with a fork, add strawberries and torn lettuce leaves. Pour in yogurt sauce and mix everything. Put the beets in a circle around the plate, pour the contents from the bowl onto it. Still, pour this sauce and a light summer salad of strawberries, beets and cottage cheese will be ready.
Beetroot Meat Salad
A simple and incredibly satisfying beetroot salad that will surely appeal to every man and, in general, to all lovers to eat deliciously. A dish can be consumed as everyday food, but it can also become a real highlight of the festive table. The advantage of this recipe also lies in the fact that the salad can be prepared from baked or boiled beets, there is no clear indication of the main ingredient. Therefore, each person is free to choose which type of heat treatment of the root crop is more suitable for him in a particular situation.
To prepare a dish, a company of 3-4 people should take 3 medium beets, 250 g of pork meat, garlic, mayonnaise, walnuts, prunes - 80 g, 1-2 pcs. onions, cucumbers - 100-120 g. All the ingredients are simple and understandable to every person, without culinary frills and experiments, therefore, difficulties with cooking should not arise.
Cooking salad
You already know the methods of heat treatment of beets, so you need to choose the right one and bring the vegetable to a state of full readiness. While the beets are cooked, you can do meat processing. In this case, it is recommended to use pork loin (cue ball), it should be cut into small cubes and put in a deep bowl, pickled a little in soy sauce and Provence herbs. Let the meat stand for half an hour in a cool place, and then it can be fried in a pan with a small amount of vegetable oil. Since the pieces are small enough, the heat treatment process will be very fast. Do not dry the meat, otherwise the taste of the dish as a whole will be slightly spoiled.
If there is a desire, then you can cook meat in another way. It is necessary to cut it into two large enough pieces, pickle in the same products. Only in this case leave for a few hours. If the salad is to be cooked the next day, then the pork must be allowed to brew all night.
The meat must be fried a whole piece to a state of full readiness, give it a little time to let it cool. Only now should the pork be cut into small sticks. This method of cooking meat will improve its taste, it will be much juicier.
Next, we turn our attention to beets. The finished root crop needs to be peeled and grated in Korean for carrots. If there is no such grater, then it is possible on an ordinary large one. Transfer the chopped beets into a bowl, and place the meat in the same place.
The next step is the preparation of walnuts, which should be slightly fried in a dry frying pan until golden brown. Add the ingredient to the rest of the products. Cut prunes into thin strips, grind cucumbers and onions in the same slices. Put all the ingredients in a bowl, add mayonnaise, optionally a little salt and pepper. Stir, put on serving plates, decorate with any kind of greenery. The dish can be served at the table.
Note! If you want to make the taste of prunes brighter, then you need to soak it for a while in red wine. In this case, the product becomes softer and tastier.
General cooking tips
It is recommended to cook any of these salads immediately before use. All vegetables taste good at first, they still hold their shape. After some time, the taste of the products will deteriorate. Salads prepared at a dressing of olive or vegetable oil are much better preserved. Mayonnaise dishes are not recommended to be stored in the refrigerator for more than three hours.
Boiled beets do not have as pronounced taste as baked. Therefore, consider this factor when choosing a heat treatment method. Never be afraid to use a large number of various herbs and spices. They perfectly reveal the taste of all products in the salad. Such herbs as marjoram, oregano, rosemary, basil are well combined with beets.
Now you know many different recipes for beet salads. All of them are good in their own way. Some are designed for a light snack and the necessary amount of vitamins, while others have an excellent supply, are satisfying and can be served on festive tables. For comparison, it is recommended to cook all these salads and determine which one is the best.