Beets are respected by housewives, for whom it is an excellent base for salads and soups, but cook chefs like restaurants, including even those whose names are spoken with aspiration, also like it. This is understandable: a simple vegetable with a lot of nutrients in its composition, it is considered a storehouse of vitamins. With this product you can prepare meals for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Are you surprised? And in vain! For example, here is a wonderful salad known all over the world - beetroot with garlic and mayonnaise.
The benefits of beet salads
Beetroot is useful for many reasons, because it will help cope with various diseases. So, a raw or boiled vegetable helps:
- to overcome unpleasant constipation,
- to lower the pressure of hypertension,
- to get rid of accumulated fluid in the body and its tissues;
- cleanse the blood.
Do you need to eliminate stagnation in the bile? There is nothing easier: include in your list for a day a couple of dishes from beets - and your condition will improve. Useful root for anemia( it is recommended in the children's menu), in addition, it is used when it is necessary to raise the immunity. Do you think that beet, cooked or baked in the oven, a priori is not useful, because all its valuable properties lost in the process of heat treatment? No, the vegetable preserves everything that nature has laid in it. This allows you to cook beets with garlic and mayonnaise.not thinking about losses, but enjoying the taste.
Nutritional value and caloric value of dish
Beet, which is the main of numerous salads, will please:
- with vitamins E, C, A, in addition group B, others;
- the presence of folic acid in tissues, which is important for well-being;
- is an excellent company of phosphorus with iodine, boron, and even silicon, iron with zinc, magnesium, potassium( this is not all!);
- substances, which are called antioxidants, which promote the prolongation of youth;
- availability of cellulose.
Beets are among the non-calorie products, and if we use the language of figures, then 40 kcal per 100 g is its parameters. A person who understands these figures will realize that the root crop is suitable even for dietary nutrition. The only "but" is a high glycemic index of root, which makes it forbidden for those who want to lose weight. Do not abuse the amount of salad diabetics.
Recipes for preparation of beetroot salad( photo)
Recipes for preparation of snacks, in which beets are involved, a lot, because to choose a couple of pieces for the everyday menu will not be difficult. Despite the simplicity of the vegetable, it will perfectly play its role as a salad base even on a holiday, as it is combined with other vegetables, herring, nuts, cheese, spicy herbs. To prepare salads, the beets are boiled, baked, brought to the ready for a couple.
With cheese, garlic and mayonnaise
In order to pamper your household with delicious for lunch or dinner, we will prepare such products:
- One hundred grams of any cheesy cheese is stronger.
- Two oblong beets of medium size.
- Several small cloves of garlic( like sharper - pieces 5).
- Salt and a little pepper for taste.
- Mayonnaise( suitable for home, with or without eggs).
Begin to conjure over salad:
- Beetroot to wash, put in a foil envelope, put on oven grate. The baking time ranges from half an hour to 45 minutes, provided that you set the temperature at 180 degrees.
- Remove the roots from the oven and allow them time to cool down.
- Cool the beets carefully and grate them on a large plate of your grater.
- The hard cheese must be grinded, and the chip dimensions must match the beetroot.
- Garlic is pressed through the press.
- In a deep bowl, combine the ingredients, mix well, spread mayonnaise. Salt and pepper is recommended at the last minute, so that the salad does not release a lot of juice.
With eggs and mayonnaise
Simple, but nutritious due to the use of eggs, this salad will certainly fall into the category of loved ones of your household. So, the products:
- Cheese( solid, ordinary non-fine varieties) - 100-150 grams.
- Two large beets, preferably round.
- Eggs - a couple of pieces of chicken or twice as many quail. A pinch of salt, fresh mayonnaise, a bunch of fragrant greens.
- Garlic - a pair of medium-sized denticles.
Preparation will be simple:
- Boil the beets until ready, which is determined by a thin knife( it should gently enter the beets).
- We'll clean the warm vegetables from the peel, only gently so as not to damage it.
- Let's take a familiar large grater and quickly eat large quantities of prepared vegetables.
- Hard-boiled eggs we have to clean and cut into cubes.
- Rub cheese, grater we choose beetroot.
- Garlic is peeled from the husk, press through the press( if it is not, small cuts are allowed).
- We spread the grated vegetables in a bowl and perform the last action - we will salted, pepper, and sauce.
- Ready dish is nicely laid out in a salad bowl, sprinkled with herbs.
With the addition of raisins and prunes
Dried fruits will give the right shade to our salad, and besides.they are useful for children and adults alike. Food for the dish, which can be either snack or garnish to meat:
- Two or three beets.
- Slice of cheese, weight 150 g.
- Three medium sized carrots.
- Two or four cloves of garlic.
- Walnuts, prunes and raisins - it should total 250-300 grams of weight.
- Mayonnaise.
Preparation is better to start ahead of time, so that at the time of serving, the dish is soaked with sauce:
- First, we will make beets, clean it and at the same time carrots.
- Alternately we rub vegetables and cheese on the same grater, but add them to different plates.
- Garlic must be crushed( garlic or knife).
- Nuts better fry, they will taste better.
- Dried fruits must be scalded, wash under running water. Cut large fruits.
We proceed to the design, because we have a salad:
- First, raisins and carrots.on top of thinly missed mayonnaise.
- The second stage involves a mixture of cheese with garlic, again mayonnaise.
- The final layer is beets with prunes, nuts.
- We put the top layer of mayonnaise beautifully. Our salad is ready!
With walnuts
The traditional combination of root crops with nuts builds a salad as a festive one. Experienced housewives already know the quantitative combination of products, but for beginners need a clue:
- A dozen kernels of nuts.
- Two medium beets.
- One or two cloves of garlic( remove the core so that it is not stinging).
- Salt.
- About a hundred grams of mayonnaise.
It's easy to cook such a dish, even a beginner mistress will cope with the task:
- We cook root crops, we clean and rub them.
- Nuts are fried in a frying pan without oil, we cut most of it, but leave a couple of pieces for the decor of the dish.
- Garlic is passed through the press.
- We put everything in a salad bowl, a little salt and season with mayonnaise. From above beautifully we have our whole nuts.
Video recipe for cooking salad from beets and carrots
With the recipe for beet salads above, you can easily prepare this dish at home and please the household. Beetroot salad is not inferior in taste to other vegetable dishes. He perfectly fits into the daily family meal, and is also able to decorate the festive table. Beets, dressed with mayonnaise, are not included in dietary dishes. This can be corrected by replacing mayonnaise with sour cream: a delicious and healthy dish will turn out. See a video that describes how a beetroot salad with carrots is prepared: