Beetroot salad with raisins

4 servings
45 min

Let's make the ingredients for the salad. The main ingredients of this salad are beetroot and raisins, as the name suggests. Garlic and walnut will complement them perfectly and improve the taste. If desired, the composition of the ingredients can be increased or changed. I boil my beets in my uniform. The taste of the salad will depend not only on the set of ingredients and the beet variety, but also on the technology of its cooking.

Long-term cooking of beets not only worsens the quality of the vegetable, reduces the amount of useful substances contained in it, but spoils the taste. Therefore, it is better to bake beets or cook for no more than half an hour. To quickly weld into the water, you need to add a teaspoon of soda. We take the beets out of the water, cool them, clean them and rub them on a medium grater, put them in a deep salad bowl.

It is better to buy raisins in the store without a beautiful gloss, which indicates the naturalness of dried fruits and the lack of chemistry when processing and storing the product. I thoroughly wash raisins under running water and pour hot water, let us stand for about 15 minutes and swell. We drain the water, dry the raisins on a paper towel. Garlic is peeled and grated on a fine grater or passed through a press. Walnuts clean from shells, finely chop kernels with a knife.

Send raisins, a handful of pine nuts, crushed garlic and walnuts to the beets.

Add, if necessary, salt to taste. We season the salad with mayonnaise. Mayonnaise can be replaced at will with sour cream, the dish will be more useful. Stir the salad. Let the salad cool a little in the refrigerator and serve to the table.

You can serve salad in a large salad bowl or small portions. Such a salad will take its rightful place on the festive table as an appetizer with a savoury taste, and will also perfectly complement lunch and dinner on weekdays. Enjoy your meal!