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Beetroot salad with garlic and walnuts
It has long been known that beetroot is a very healthy vegetable. And if you add walnuts, prunes, and a little garlic to it - it becomes a treasure trove of vitamins. This is exactly the beetroot salad with garlic and walnuts that is often served as an appetizer. Such a salad is very often prepared for festive tables. The dressing can be vegetable oil, but it is more often made with the addition of mayonnaise. And if homemade mayonnaise, then the appetizer will taste even better. Bright, healthy, and delicious beetroot appetizer will be perfect as a side dish for the main meal for a family lunch. If you don't know how to cook beetroot salad with garlic and walnuts, then this step-by-step recipe with photos is specially for you.
Preparation time: 60 minutes.
Caloric content: 336 kcal per 100 grams of the dish.
Ingredients
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- walnuts – 100-130 g;
- boiled beetroot – 2-3 pcs;
- prunes – 5-7 pcs;
- garlic – 1-2 cloves;
- mayonnaise – 1-2 tbsp.
Products for mayonnaise:
- raw egg – 1 pc;
- salt – 0.5 tsp;
- sugar – 1 tsp;
- lemon juice – 1 tbsp;
- vegetable oil – 250-280 ml;
- mustard – to taste.
Preparation
- For the salad, we choose red beetroot. If you bake the beetroot, it will turn out much tastier and retain more vitamins, but you can also boil. We peel the walnuts from their shells and membranes.
- The nuts need to be chopped with a knife or crushed with a rolling pin.
- The clove of garlic is passed through a press or grated on a fine grater.
- Boiled beetroot is grated on a coarse grater.
- The prunes need to be soaked in warm water and left for five to ten minutes.
- The prunes are chopped randomly.
- The main rule in making homemade mayonnaise is that all ingredients must be warm. That is, they should be taken out of the refrigerator about an hour before cooking. We take the ingredients according to the recipe. Immediately, we place everything in the blender bowl.
- We position the blender so that the egg yolk is under the blades of the mechanism. At high speed, we whip the mixture, keeping the blender handle at the bottom. After half a minute, you can gently lift the blender. A thick mayonnaise will result.
- We place the prepared ingredients in a bowl, mix. The appetizer can be sent to the refrigerator for a few hours.
- The appetizer can be served in individual dessert bowls or placed on a plate using a serving ring.
- The bright and healthy beetroot salad with garlic and walnuts is ready.
