Beets are a unique vegetable: affordable for buyers, easy to grow for gardeners, and very useful and tasty for everyone. This root vegetable contains a huge amount of vitamins that are not lost during high-temperature processing and long-term storage. One of the healthy and tasty beetroot preparations - beet salad "Alenka" - is a simple but very appetizing dish.
It is necessary
- - 4 kg of fresh beets;
- - 1.5 kg of fresh tomatoes;
- - 0.5 kg of bell pepper;
- - 0.5 kg of onions;
- - 200 g of garlic;
- - 200 g of granulated sugar;
- - 200 g of nine percent vinegar;
- - 70 g of salt;
- - 0.5 liters of vegetable oil.
Instructions
Step 1
Rinse and peel the beets. Grind it with a food processor or mince it and place in a large saucepan.
Step 2
Rinse the tomatoes and remove the stalks. Peel the onions and garlic. Pass through a meat grinder or chop tomatoes, onions, garlic with a combine. Add the tomatoes and onions to the beetroot pot. Place the chopped garlic on a plate.
Step 3
Combine chopped vegetables in a saucepan. Add granulated sugar, salt, vegetable oil and vinegar to the saucepan and mix well again. Place the pot of vegetables on the fire for two hours. Add the garlic ten minutes before the end of cooking.
Step 4
Sterilize the jars while the salad is cooking.
Step 5
After two hours, remove the pan from the heat and cool. Beet salad "Alenka" is ready. Place the salad in prepared sterilized jars and roll up. Store the salad in a cool, dark place, in the cellar, or in the refrigerator.
Step 6
Serve Alenka salad with any meat dishes. You can use this blank for quick dressing of borscht.
