Beets are available all year round and are inexpensive. At the same time it is one of the most useful vegetables. Cooks appreciated its organoleptic qualities. It gives the dishes an appetizing red color, making them decorate the table. This product has a unique taste, combined with fish, and meat, and mushrooms, and fruit, and nuts. Garlic is often added to beet dishes: it allows you to balance the sweetish flavor of the root and increase the benefit of burgundy vegetables. Salads with beets and garlic like a lot for a moderately piquant and harmonious taste. They are often included in the diet of people adhering to the principles of healthy eating. A variety of recipes allows you to choose the option of snacks for every taste.
Cooking Features
Salads with beets and garlic are also good because they do not need to have great culinary skills and cooking experience. With the knowledge of a few moments, even an aspiring hostess will perfectly cope with the task.
- If it were not for the duration of cooking beets, salads from it could be made in haste. Cooking time of root crops ranges from 40 minutes to 1, 5 hours depending on their size. Approximately the same amount is required in order to bake them, placing in a culinary sleeve or wrapped in foil. The process can be accelerated using a microwave, in which the beets are cooked 2 times faster. The slow cooker can also help the hostess: while the smart device cooks a vegetable, the hostess can do other things. In extreme cases, boiled beets can be purchased at the store - in this form, it is also sold in many supermarkets.
- For the preparation of salads, it is better to choose the beet varieties intended specifically for this. They are rich in vitamins, have a pleasant taste. You can recognize them by their small size and rich color.
- The amount of garlic in the appetizer composition can be reduced or increased depending on how spicy the dishes you like. It is most convenient to grind it using a special hand press, but you can use a blender or grind the product in a mortar, pre-cut into small pieces with a knife.
- Beetroot and garlic salads are most often seasoned with mayonnaise. Supporters of healthy eating can replace it with more healthy and less calorie sour cream - the taste of the snack will not suffer from this. It is undesirable to replace mayonnaise and sour cream with yogurt - with it the snack will be less tasty. Some beetroot and garlic salads are seasoned with butter — such snacks are considered healthy, albeit high-calorie. By reducing the amount of oil, you thereby reduce the energy value of the finished dish.
- It is advisable to fill the salad shortly before serving to the table so that it will not spoil longer. With the same purpose, the products subjected to heat treatment, before being added to the salad, are cooled to room temperature.
Some housewives try to make salads from fresh beets, considering them more useful. These snacks have a specific taste, are heavy on the stomach and are not shown to everyone. When cooking, beets retain almost all the benefits. It is advisable to make a choice in favor of a raw vegetable if there is a need to cleanse the body or have problems with carbohydrate metabolism: the raw product has a lower glycemic index. Salads from raw beets with garlic can be prepared according to the same recipes as boiled. The taste of snacks will be different, but also pleasant.
A simple recipe for a salad with beets and garlic
Composition:
- beets - 0, 5 kg;
- garlic - 5 cloves;
- table mustard - 5 ml;
- sour cream or mayonnaise - 100 ml;
- salt - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the beets, boil or bake until tender. Cool, clean. Grind grated with large holes.
- Garlic cloves pass through the press, add to beets.
- Pound the mustard with a spoonful of sour cream or mayonnaise, add the remaining sour cream or mayonnaise, beat with a whisk.
- Salt the salad, pour it with the prepared dressing, mix.
This salad is tasty in itself. You can also add a side dish. It goes well with both meat and fish dishes. Salad is especially suitable for herring.
Salad with beets, garlic and cheese
Composition:
- beets - 0, 3 kg;
- semi-hard cheese - 100 g;
- garlic - 4 cloves;
- salt - to taste;
- mayonnaise - 100-150 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Boil beets, cool. Peel, grate on a grate with large cells.
- On the same grater, chop the cheese.
- Combine beets with cheese. Add the garlic passed through the press.
- Salt and season with mayonnaise.
Cheese softens the piquancy of garlic, makes the salad taste more noble and soft. Snack on this recipe is quite substantial to replace dinner.
Salad with beets, garlic, prunes and walnuts
Composition:
- beets - 0, 2 kg;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- pitted prunes - 50 g;
- walnut kernels - 50 g;
- olive oil - 50 ml;
- salt, black pepper powder - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Cool the boiled beets and peel them. Coarsely rub.
- Finely chop the garlic cloves, add to the beets.
- Pour the prunes with hot water, after 10 minutes, drain the water, squeeze the dried fruits and cut into strips. Put to beets and garlic.
- Fry the walnut kernels in a dry frying pan. Put it on the board, finely chop with a knife. Pour into container with other products.
- In a separate bowl, mix the salt, pepper, and olive oil. Season the salad.
When served, this appetizer is usually spread in a slide on lettuce leaves. The salad made according to this recipe has an exquisite taste and undoubted benefits for the body.
Salad with beets, garlic and meat
Composition:
- boiled beef or lean pork - 0, 25 kg;
- boiled beets - 0, 3 kg;
- pickled cucumbers - 0, 25 kg;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- chicken egg - 3 pcs .;
- canned green peas - 0, 25 g;
- mayonnaise - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Meat, beet and boil eggs separately. Cool it down.
- Cut the meat into small cubes, put it on a dish or in a salad bowl. Salt, pepper, pour with mayonnaise.
- Finely chop pickled cucumbers, put on the meat, pour over the sauce.
- Peel and chop beets on a grater, add garlic and a spoonful of mayonnaise passed through a press to it, mix. Lay out the next layer.
- Eggs free from the shell, rub, put on the beets, grease with mayonnaise.
- Top with green peas.
It is not necessary to make the salad according to this recipe flaky. In this case, the beets are cut into cubes, like other products. Garlic, passed through the press, mixed with mayonnaise before filling them with a snack. The dish turns out quite nourishing, tasty and beautiful to offer it not only to households, but also to guests.
Salad with beets, garlic and feta
Composition:
- beets - 0, 3 kg;
- garlic - 3 cloves;
- feta - 0, 2 kg;
- parsley - 50 g;
- sunflower seeds (peeled) - 15 g;
- lettuce leaves - 5-6 pcs .;
- olive oil - 60 ml;
- lemon juice - 40 ml;
- honey - 20 ml;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Boiled beets, cool, peel and cut into cubes of about 1 cm.
- Cut the feta into the same cubes.
- Spread the beets and cheese on the lettuce leaves.
- Finely chop the garlic.
- Fry the seeds lightly in a dry frying pan.
- Cut the parsley.
- Sprinkle beets and feta with garlic, parsley and sunflower seeds.
- Mix melted honey, lemon juice and butter. Add salt and pepper to them, whisk together.
- Pour the salad over the cooked sauce.
Salad made according to this recipe turns out to be unusual, but tasty. It looks appetizing and elegant. This dish is not ashamed to put on the festive table.
How to decorate a salad of beets and garlic
Salads with beets and garlic look bright, but simple. It is not surprising that many housewives seek to decorate them somehow when serving. You can offer several options for processing such dishes.
- Beet salad can be laid out on plates using special molds, giving it the shape of mini-cakes. Purchased forms can be replaced with homemade. They are easy to make from cans, just cutting the bottom of them. Above it will be enough to put a sprig of parsley and dill, so that the salad has a festive look.
- You can decorate beet salad with garlic with flowers made from the main ingredient of the snack. For this root is cut into very thin slices. One plate is rolled into a tube, the others are laid around it like petals. The result is a figure resembling a pink bud.
- As a decor for beet salad, you can use flowers from other products that make up it. They are made on the same principle as from beets.
- White color looks on red bright and contrast. This allows you to use a sauce used as a dressing to decorate beet salads. It is placed in a culinary bag and put them patterns, like a cream on the cake. You can make a trace of contour, the inscription. Whipped cream is also used for decoration, but only without sugar.
A simple way to make any salad bright and appetizing is to lay it on lettuce leaves. Snack of beets with garlic is no exception.
Beet salad with garlic - an easy-to-prepare and affordable snack. You can not ignore the benefits of such a dish for the human body. A variety of recipes of this dish allows you to choose the option for every taste. Beautifully decorated beet salad, it can be served to the festive table.
