Beetroot salad with onions, cheese and walnuts is a light vegetable appetizer, which is not only very tasty, but also incredibly healthy. Some products simply can not live without each other, for example, beets and onions. Even without cheese and nuts, they make up a very tasty duet, especially if you season the vegetables with soy sauce and good olive oil. The combination of products in this dish is so harmonious that everyone's favorite mayonnaise is out of work. And without it, delicious! So, if you want to cook beet salad without mayonnaise, then this simple recipe is just for you.
- Cooking time: 25 minutes (excluding beet cooking)
- Servings: 4
Ingredients for making beetroot salad with onions, cheese and walnuts
- 600 g of beets;
- 200 g cheese in brine;
- 300 g onions;
- 20 g butter;
- 40 g peeled walnuts;
- 20 ml of soy sauce with garlic;
- 30 ml of olive oil;
- black pepper, sea salt, vegetable oil for frying.
A way to make beetroot salad with onions, cheese and walnuts
Beetroot, put in a saucepan, pour cold water, bring to a boil and cook on low heat for about an hour. Then put the stewpan under a stream of cold water for a few minutes. Cold beets cleaned from the peel.
Vegetables for the salad of beets with onions, cheese and walnuts, I grind on Berner's grater. For a long time she was lying idle in the far corner of the cabinet, but for a beautiful cutting of vegetables into a simple salad, you can’t think of a better device.
So, we turn vegetables into thin and beautiful straws, put them in a deep salad bowl.
Next, cut the onion into thin rings. In a cast-iron skillet with high sides, heat the butter, add 2-3 tablespoons of odorless vegetable oil (for frying), throw the onions, sprinkle with salt, pour a tablespoon of hot water.
While stirring, pass the onion until it becomes soft and translucent, remove the pan from the stove, cool the onion to room temperature.
Now we mix the chopped beets with fried onions, if you add salt and season with butter, it will be delicious, but the culinary fantasies have no boundaries, so we will continue to cook the beet salad with onions, cheese and walnuts.
Peeled walnuts are heated for a few minutes in a dry, hot frying pan, chopped with a knife or ground with a rolling pin. No need to turn the nuts into dust, just make big crumbs.
Pour soy sauce with garlic in a bowl. If you are preparing a dish for breakfast or for dinner, then instead of garlic sauce, take the chili sauce.
We obtain the cheese from brine, cut into large cubes, add to the rest of the ingredients, pepper them with freshly ground black pepper.
Pour the dish with high-quality olive oil of the first cold-extraction of extra virgin variety, sprinkle with sea salt to taste, mix.
Put the appetizer in a bowl, sprinkle with rosemary leaves and serve on the table. Bon appetit, cook with pleasure!
Salad of beets with onions, cheese and walnuts is a light and healthy vegetable snack. It is suitable for a vegetarian menu according to the system of ovolacto-vegetarianism or lacto-vegetarianism (from Lat. Ovo - egg, lacto - milk). But the meat eaters will enjoy this salad and bring many benefits. Try it and see!
