A fairly frequent guest at our dining tables is beets. In addition to being indispensable for the preparation of many first courses, appetizers and salads, it also carries enormous benefits for our body. Due to the presence of fiber, beets help to cope with constipation and stomach upsets. It fights against atherosclerosis and liver diseases.
Beets are combined with a large number of other vegetables, meat, etc. Salads are especially popular. Today we will share a couple of delicious recipes. We will tell you what the calorie content of beets with garlic and mayonnaise is. Let’s show you how to reduce calories in such a salad and how to replace mayonnaise.
A bit of history
Did you know that beets were on the tables of the Babylonians back in 2000 BC? According to scientists, the peak of popularity of this vegetable falls on the thousandth year before the onset of our era. It is known that initially only the tops of a vegetable were used. They were especially appreciated by culinary experts from Europe. But in Asia, roots have already been tasted, realizing that the most delicious part is not the leaves, namely the red juicy pulp. The root crop turned out to be much more satisfying and tastier.
Calorie content
Due to its low calorie content, this vegetable is very popular in diet food. It is found on the menu of almost all losing weight or adhering to proper nutrition. Of course, like with any other product, the calorie content of beets will vary depending on the method of preparation.
Calorie Raw Beets | 40 kcal |
Calorie stewed beets | 106 kcal |
Boiled beets | 49 kcal |
Data are for 100 grams of product. Calorie content will change in the event that beets are part of the dish or just supplemented with some other product. For example, the calorie content of beets with garlic and mayonnaise will be far from 40 or 49 calories. Calories are calculated by folding all the ingredients. If you do not have a kitchen scale, then you can always calculate the calorie content of beets "by eye". On average, the root crop weighs between 250-300 grams. Consequently, in one small beet there will be about 120 calories.
We will name some of the most popular dishes involving beets.
- Salad "Beets with garlic and mayonnaise." Calories - 122 kilocalories per hundred grams of the dish.
- The vinaigrette. Calories - 120 kilocalories per 100 grams.
- New Year's and everyone’s favorite salad, where the salted fish is hidden “under a fur coat”, totals 190-200 kcal per hundred grams.
- Salad with beets and cheese. This is about 211 calories per hundred grams of food. Here, everything will also depend on the type of cheese that you decide to use for cooking.
Raw or boiled
The calorie content of boiled beets (with garlic and mayonnaise or with cheese - it does not matter) will still be higher than the calorie content of the raw product. Some people prefer to use beets in their raw form, considering that it is much more satisfying, healthier and tastier. However, not everyone can do this for health reasons. For example, people with diabetes, urolithiasis, or acute gastritis are not allowed to eat raw beets.
In most cases, the vegetable is still boiled. Boiled beets can be used for side dishes, for salads and first courses. Even beetroot desserts are amazingly delicious dishes. And for health, the boiled version is safer.
Beets with garlic and mayonnaise
Since today we are talking about the calorie content of beets with garlic and mayonnaise, for cooking it will be a boiled vegetable. Such a salad is a favorite snack for many, which always decorates the festive table.
The recipe is very simple. For cooking, you need boiled beets (250 grams), mayonnaise (45 grams), salt and pepper, as well as for the sharpness of the dish - a little chopped garlic. Beets must be chopped on a fine grater, add spices and garlic. Then put a couple of spoons of mayonnaise. The dish is ready. Garnish it with a pair of bright green leaves of parsley, and you can serve it on the table.
Salad with Beets, Cheese, Garlic
It is clear that the calorie content of beets with garlic and mayonnaise due to the latter product will be quite high. Not everyone can afford such an appetizer. Mayonnaise is prohibited in many diets. What to do? How to replace mayonnaise in a salad with beets?
Olive oil in a salad, where the main ingredients are beets with garlic, can easily be replaced. Calorie content without mayonnaise will be an order of magnitude less. Only you should take good and high-quality oil, as there will be even more calories in cheap analogues than in mayonnaise, which you want to refuse.
A great alternative would be cheese. Salad, beetroot, garlic and cheese, which are perfectly combined, very often appear on the tables of those people who lose weight or maintain weight. For cooking, you can take absolutely any cheese. If you follow a diet and keep a log of caloric content of dishes that you eat, then take cheese with a low percentage of fat content. As a result, the salad will turn out less caloric.
For example, Gouda cheese contains about 360 kilocalories, but Amber cheese - 280. Want to make the salad even more healthy? You are welcome. Brynza from goat milk - 208 kilocalories, ricotta - 174, homemade cheese - 113 kilocalories will always come to the rescue. There is always a choice; it’s easy to diversify a dish.
Beetroot Salad with Nuts
We continue to look for alternatives further. Great benefit to your figure and health will be the use of a salad consisting of boiled beets, walnuts and prunes. The proportions of the ingredients may be different. Instead of mayonnaise, the use of oil (unrefined or olive) is also acceptable. And you can not refuel such a salad at all.
The calorie content of the dish will average about 152 kilocalories per hundred grams. If you add a little less nuts and a little more prunes, then the calorie content will decrease.