How to cook beets: interesting recipes, features and reviews. How to cook red beetroot soup with beetroot

A lot has been said about the benefits of beets, and people have long taken note of this. Among other things, the vegetable is very tasty and gives the dishes a rich and bright color, which is also important: it is known that the aesthetics of the dish significantly increase its appetite, and hence taste. Even if only from a psychological point of view. There are many ways to cook beets. And if you have not accumulated your recipes, we suggest using our.

Bake vegetables

Recipes for cooking beetroot dishes, as a rule, young modern housewives begin to master with baking. So the vegetables turn out both tastier and healthier: the necessary vitamins do not disappear, as when cooking, you will not get the next dose of carcinogens, as when frying. In addition, the ability to properly bake root vegetables can be very useful on a picnic in nature, on active summer vacations - but wherever it is planned to make a fire and install a grill or grill. But, by the way, there is an excellent recipe on how to cook beets just in the oven. Let's try?

Beetroot in foil and sleeve

We take the most beautiful and even root crop, carefully washed in running water, wipe with a clean towel. By the way, pruning “roots and tips” is not advised so that the juice does not flow out, but remains inside during cooking. Next, select any of the 3 methods of baking.

1. We add the washed root crops to the grate in the oven, heated to 160 degrees. We cook a little less than an hour, but not less than 45 minutes (during this time any beet variety has time to bake well).
2. For baking dishes we use food foil. We wrap the beets in it quite tightly, spread on a baking sheet, previously filled with a glass of water. If the temperature in the oven is 170 degrees, then small beets will ripen in three quarters of an hour. Beets baked in foil are sweet and healthy.
3. How to cook beets in the oven most quickly? We use a baking sleeve. We put the root crop into the sleeve, tighten it so that there is no oxygen, cook for 40 minutes at a temperature of slightly less than 200 degrees. We check the readiness after half an hour from the beginning of the process with a wooden toothpick or skewer: some beet varieties can cook faster than the time specified in the recipe.

Grill

If you are in the country, outdoors or in nature, you can take advantage of open fire and cook beets on the grill or just bake in a fire. But it is worth paying attention to the fact that in this case you should choose root vegetables the size of an average potato, so that it is more convenient to bake. We use the same principle: we wrap beets in foil and - in coals until ready. Or put raw beets on the grill.

Delicious salad

How to cook beets in a salad to please guests or home? Quite affordable and inexpensive ingredients will be required: a couple of medium beets, half a glass of shelled walnuts, half a glass of boneless prunes, a couple of garlic cloves, mayonnaise and spices, salt if desired.

Cooking

1. Root crops need to be boiled without peeling. How to boil and cool - clean and grate.
2. Walnut chop or chop finely.
3. We press the garlic in a crush.
4. We rinse the prunes in a colander with boiling water, cut into rather small pieces.
5. We mix the prepared ingredients in a wide bowl, season with mayonnaise, salt, spices - according to personal taste.
6. The salad is ready, before serving, cool it and sprinkle with chopped herbs.

This dish should be present on holidays on the table, as with plentiful libations (for example, during 2 weeks of New Year's feasts) and food, prunes and beets together will do their good job: normalize digestion.

What is our life? Caviar!

How to cook beets in the form of caviar, which is an excellent snack, for example, for strong alcohol? It can also be spread on bread as a complement to breakfast: tasty and healthy, and most importantly, satisfying, there will be no desire to eat for a long time later.

We take a kilo of beets, three spoons of vegetable oil, a pound of onion, a little tomato paste, salt. That's all that will be necessary for us to prepare beetroot caviar. For lovers of piquancy, we’ll add a couple of garlic cloves to the list of ingredients.

Cooking

My root crops and cook unpeeled until fully cooked (easily pierced with a fork). No product cleaning is required so that the juices from the beets do not enter the water during cooking. For the same reasons, cutting it is also not recommended. When cooked, remove from pan and cool. Then you need to clean and rub on a trowel. And in a larger pan, heated with vegetable oil (sunflower will do), pour a chopped onion. Fry it a bit, spread the beets there too. Stew for about 15-20 minutes on the smallest fire. Then add the tomato paste and salt, cook for another ten minutes, constantly stirring. Delicious caviar is ready. For piquancy, crushed garlic can be added just before the final. By the way, if you do not know how to cook beets for the winter, then such caviar is the best option (only then do not put the garlic). After readiness, put the product in sterilized jars, pasteurize and roll up. A great addition to the New Year's table!

How to cook beetroot soup: a step by step recipe

And, of course, borscht - where would it be without him! This king of the table is a favorite everyday dish for many families. Undoubtedly, experienced housewives probably know how to cook red beetroot soup with beets, and can make it for one, two or three, even with their eyes closed. Our "secrets" will be interesting, rather, for beginners. So let's get started.

Cooking

1. How to cook beetroot soup with beets? The recipe is not very difficult. First and foremost, you need a cool, rich broth. For him, take beef on the bone, with a pound (this is for a large, family borscht pan). Fill with water, cook for a long time, at least an hour, like the most ordinary broth: remove the foam, add the onion head, etc.
2. At this time, you can cook the roast. Three onion heads, a couple of carrots, a few beets - the more vegetables, in fact, the better and tastier it will be. For frying, tomato paste and vegetable oil are still needed - fry on it. Naturally, chop the onion, and grate the carrots and beets. Fry for 15-20 minutes. And the beets can be sprinkled with lemon - so the borsch is made really red. During stewing, chop a half of the cabbage and chop several potatoes into cubes.
   
3. "Collecting" the dish. We take the meat out of the pan (the broth can be filtered), cool. In the broth, we gradually introduce cabbage and potatoes, then - dressing after 10 minutes. Separate the meat from the seeds, cut into slices and send it back to the container. After introducing all the ingredients, mix, salt and pepper to taste, cover the pan with a lid and cook for another 5 minutes.
4. Turn off. Attention: borsch should be infused for at least half an hour (in general, it will be tastier the next day than just cooked). Now you know how to cook red beetroot soup with beets: you can serve it to the table with sour cream, black bread, garlic and a stack. Eating is easy! And this is not unfounded - but according to home reviews!

How to cook cabbage with beets?

And finally, another recipe for using this root crop is Gurian cabbage. You need to take a head of cabbage at about 2 pounds, a couple of beets (or one large), two carrots, a head of garlic, vinegar - a third of a glass, salt - a spoon, and sugar - a third of a glass. Still need vegetable oil - half a cup or a little less.

We chop the forks of cabbage, and rub the vegetables coarsely. Chop the garlic finely. Mix all the ingredients in a saucepan. For the marinade, boil two glasses of water, add salt with sugar, vinegar and vegetable oil. Remove the marinade from the heat and fill them with vegetables. An delicious snack is ready in an hour. According to numerous guest reviews, just what you need for vodka! Bon appetit to everyone!