Beetroot salads not only have a pleasant taste, but are also very healthy. They are suitable for both daily and holiday menus, as well as for diet food.
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Beetroot is an unusually healthy vegetable. It contains a huge amount of vitamins, complex carbohydrates, fiber, mineral compounds. It is perfect for diet food, as it has unique properties to cleanse the body, remove toxins from it. This vegetable is very useful for people suffering from atherosclerosis, disorders of the gastrointestinal tract and other diseases.
You can eat beets both raw and boiled. Nutritionists advise patients to regularly include vitamin salads with the addition of this vegetable in the diet. The use of such dishes not only has a beneficial effect on the body, but also helps to maintain a slim figure.
For raw consumption, it is best to use young beets. Its structure is more delicate and not too dense.
To prepare a delicious vitamin salad, you will need 1 small beet, 1 medium-sized carrot, 150 g cabbage, lemon juice, salt, olive oil.
Young beets and carrots must be peeled and grated. Cabbage should be finely chopped, put in a deep bowl, salt and slightly knead with your hands. This is necessary to soften its structure. Next, all the ingredients must be mixed in a salad bowl, sprinkle with lemon juice, add a little olive oil and mix again.
To prepare a delicious sweet salad, you will need 1 small beetroot, 1-2 medium-sized carrots and 1 red apple. Beets and carrots must be peeled and grated, then put in a salad bowl and slightly knead the vegetables with your hands. Next, you need to peel the apple, grate it on a coarse grater and sprinkle with lemon juice. Lemon juice protects the surface of apples from darkening due to contact with air.
All ingredients must be mixed in a salad bowl and add half a teaspoon of sugar. If the apple is sweet enough, you can not add sugar to the finished salad. Salt this dish is not necessary.
For a festive table and daily menu, beet salad with prunes is perfect. To cook it, you need to boil 2 medium-sized beets, cool them, peel and grate on a coarse grater.
Cooking time beets directly depends on its size. To speed up the process, you can cook it in a pressure cooker or cut it into pieces before cooking.
To preserve all vitamins and other useful components in a vegetable, you can not boil beets, but bake them in the oven. To do this, wash it, wrap it in foil, put it on a baking sheet and place the baking sheet in the oven, heated to 220 ° C. Bake vegetables for 40 minutes.
Grated beets should be put in a salad bowl and add to it 100 g of chopped prunes, as well as salt to taste, 2 tablespoons of olive oil and 2 cloves of garlic, passed through a press. Preliminary prunes are recommended to be steamed with boiling water for 15 minutes to soften it. All ingredients must be thoroughly mixed, after which the salad can be served.