Beetroot Salad Recipe with Step by Step Photos
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Thomas Sixt is a chef, food photographer, cookbook author and blogger.
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Today I show you my Beetroot Salad Recipe with many step by step photos to prepare.
The beetroot tastes best fresh and homemade.
If you know the beetroot only from the glass, then try this recipe.
You can cook the turnips either in the pot, in the steam cooker or in the pressure pot.
Prepared in the pressure pot, the turnips are ready in a flash.
After cooking, you can peel the boiled turnips under running cold water and then let them cool down. Then it goes into the marinade.
I will show you how to prepare the marinade step by step in the following photos. Good luck!
Table of Contents
1. Prepare Beetroot Salad
The preparation is quite simple…
- Cook the turnips in salted water until soft. Use a pressure pot, then it goes faster.
- Then pour the turnips into the sink and peel with cold water.
- Peeling is very easy, the skin peels off easily.
- Let the turnips cool lukewarm, then cut into fine slices and place in a bowl.
- Add white wine vinegar, salt, sugar, pepper, oil and freshly ground caraway seeds.
Mix the salad and marinate for 15 minutes, then serve quickly and enjoy.
I have already written elsewhere about the health effects of beetroot!
2. Recipe for Beetroot Salad
Below are the step-by-step instructions with many photos.
If you have any questions please use the comment function!
Beetroot Salad
Cooked, photographed and written down by chef Thomas Sixt.
Simple guide to prepare beet salad.
Preparation Time
5 Min.
Cook Time
45 Min.
Ingredients
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Boil Beetroot |
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| 500 | g | beetroot |
| 1 | tsp | Salt |
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Salad Sauce |
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| 1-2 | tsp | Caraway |
| 40 | ml | white wine vinegar |
| 1/4 | tsp | Salt |
| 8 | pinches | black pepper |
| 1/2 | tsp | brown cane sugar |
| 70 | ml | Sunflower oil (or olive oil) |
Instruction
Cooking beets
Cook the beetroot in salted water until soft.
You can use a pressure pot, then it goes faster.
Peel beets
Pour off the beetroot and peel under running cold water.
Then let cool and cut out unattractive places.
Cutting beets
Cut the turnips into thin slices, you can also use a slicer.
Finish beets
Place the beet slices in a bowl.
Prepare caraway
Toast the caraway in a mortar so that the aroma can develop better.
Marinate
Season the beet slices with caraway, salt, sugar, vinegar and oil.
Seasoning
Refine beetroot salad with pepper, mix well and leave to stand for 15 minutes.
Serve
Season beetroot salad to taste, arrange and serve.
Enjoy your meal!
Video
The smaller the turnips, the shorter the cooking time.
The piercing of the beets is considered a faux pas, but I have already halved large beets to reduce the cooking time.
Wash the turnips well before cooking, only clean turnips come into your pot! 🙂
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Keyword
3. Calories and Nutritional Values
4. Other Beetroot Recipes
Beetroot soup
Borscht – Red beet stew
Herring feast with beetroot
Labskaus with beetroot
Beetroot and lentil salad
5. More Ideas
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