Salad with beets, walnuts and prunes - very tasty and simple 🥣

Kitchen appliances and utensils: refrigerator, oven, kettle, baking sheet or baking dish, 200 g glass, deep bowl, cutting board, knife, grater, tablespoon, food foil, hot pot holders, kitchen towels.

Ingredients

Step cooking

1. Clean 3-4 pcs. medium-sized beets from the peel with a knife. Rinse the roots thoroughly under running water and pat dry with paper towels. Separately, wrap each beet tightly in cling film. Preheat the oven to 220 ºС. Put the beets on a baking sheet or in a baking dish and place in a preheated oven for 40 minutes. Check the readiness of root vegetables with a knife or a toothpick; vegetables should be completely soft. Baked beets are more juicy, and retains more useful properties than boiled beets.
   
2. Cool the finished beets at room temperature, then grate on a coarse grater and place in a deep bowl. If necessary, squeeze out excess juice slightly.
   
3. Rinse ½ cup walnuts under running water and dry them in the oven. Thus, they will feel good in the salad, and will not get wet. Grind the nuts with a knife on a cutting board or in a blender, but not very much. Then add the nuts in a bowl with beets.
   
4. Rinse thoroughly ½ cup prunes under running water. If there are bones, remove them. Boil water in a kettle and pour boiling water over prunes for about 10 minutes to soften it. Then squeeze it on a paper towel and cut into small pieces. Add crushed prunes to other ingredients.
   
5. Season salad 2-3 tbsp. l mayonnaise and mix well. Instead of mayonnaise, you can use sour cream. Optionally, you can salt the salad to taste. And if you want to add special piquancy and spiciness, then add a couple of cloves of chopped garlic to the salad. Before serving, put the salad in the refrigerator for several hours so that it is well saturated. You can decorate the salad with a sprig of fresh herbs to taste.
   

Such a dish can simultaneously serve as a salad and appetizer, because it can be served with hot dishes or spread on bread for sandwiches. And for lovers of light food and fasting days, this salad is a completely independent and satisfying dish.

Video recipe

How to bake beets and prepare the rest of the ingredients for a juicy and nutritious salad, you can look in more detail at the video.

Fragrant and colorful beetroot salad, in addition to its rich taste, is a great source of nutrients due to its ingredients. This dish will be appropriate for any occasion and meal time. If you still have not tried beetroot salad, be sure to cook it according to this simple and affordable recipe.