Beets are a dietary and delicious product. What delicious dishes are obtained from a dark red root vegetable, not only experienced housewives know. For example, beets can be used to make preparations for the winter for borscht, beet salad with mayonnaise and garlic. Even simple canning of root crops for the winter will delight children and adults.
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Canned beets
Such a marinade is suitable for the subsequent use of a root vegetable to be added to borscht or beetroot. Such beets make incredibly tasty winter salads.
Ingredients you need:
- the root crop itself;
- salt and sugar;
- cloves as a spice, who does not like it, may not put it in jars;
- lemon acid.
Cooking procedure:
- The root crop is washed and peeled.
- Cook in a saucepan until it is easily pierced with a knife.
- They put boiled beets in cold water and forget about them for half an hour.
- The broth from the pan is filtered and poured into another pan.
- Pour salt and sugar to taste.
- A pinch of citric acid is added.
- Cut the root vegetable into medium pieces.
- They put it in a jar.
- Pour in the newly boiled broth.
- Tighten the lids of the cans.
- They put the cans in water and boil in a similar "bath" for half an hour.
Now all that remains is to put them in a dark place and wrap them in a blanket for two days, so that the closed glassware with salad cools slowly.
Red root vegetable salad
Salads are no less tasty from beets. It will saturate the organisms of children and adults with useful vitamins and minerals in the winter.
Ingredients that will be needed:
- beets - 4 kilograms;
- onions - 2 kilograms;
- red or green pepper - 1 piece;
- tomatoes - 2 pcs.;
- chili pepper - 50 g;
- a tablespoon of oil;
- salt to taste.
Cooking procedure:
- The vegetables are washed, peeled and cut into pieces.
- Fry the peppers and onions in a skillet for 10 minutes until the onion turns golden.
- Beets are rubbed on a grater. The tomatoes are mashed in a blender.
- Add chili to the beets, tomatoes and stew for about an hour.
- Then fried bell peppers and onions are thrown into the stewed mixture.
- Reduce heat to low and cook for ten minutes.
- They put them in jars and roll them up.
The prepared jars are turned over and placed in a dark place, having previously covered with a blanket.
There are various ways of rolling this root vegetable, preparing different dishes from it. The main thing is not to be afraid to experiment with different cooking methods.
Do you cook pickled beets for the winter?
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