Beetroot with walnuts - 47 cooking recipes

Grated beets mixed with walnuts and dressed with mayonnaise is a salad called Red Moscow. It has been known since Soviet times, when it appeared quite often on the tables of our grandmothers. Its popularity is very easy to explain: ease of preparation, pleasant taste, ease of absorption by the body. Well, and benefits, of course.

To prepare a classic beet salad with walnuts, in addition to the main ingredients, you will need mayonnaise and garlic. There may be enough salt in the sauce.

The beets must be boiled or baked in the oven. Then peel and grate on a coarse grater. It is better to work with rubber gloves and an apron, since beet juice is very corrosive. If the beets are too juicy, you may need to drain them of excess liquid. Otherwise, the salad, after standing for some time, will simply float.

It is not necessary to squeeze it out for this - you can put it in a colander, wait 10-15 minutes and then transfer the mixture into a bowl for mixing the salad.

Squeeze the garlic directly into the vegetables using a garlic press. Select the quantity to suit your taste: some people like more garlic, others less. Recipes will not always indicate the optimal volume.

It is advisable not to add mayonnaise, otherwise the dish will come out watery. But this is also up to individual taste.

But regarding walnuts it is worth talking in more detail.

If you don’t bother too much and put it in the food as is, nothing bad will happen. The salad will remain edible and will be praised.

But if you pour boiling water over the peeled nuts, keep them in the water for about 5 minutes. And then try to peel them, the result will exceed all expectations. The nuts will not be bitter, they will become soft, tender, and buttery. In the salad, however, they will look like small white bones, but you can live with that.