Beet – a root crop which slightly loses the useful properties in the course of storage. Doctors recommend to eat it to the people having a hypertension, diseases of blood, digestive tract. Beet in the period of winter avitaminosis, flu epidemics and ORZ is especially useful. This root crop is pickled, added to salads. From it it is possible to prepare a tasty and useful vegetable caviar.
It is required to you
- beet – 0.5 kg;
- onions – 2 pieces;
- vegetable oil – 50 ml;
- tomato paste – 3 tablespoons;
- garlic – 2-3 cloves;
- salt
Instruction
1. Choose beet. It has to be dark red colors. The best grades – "Bravo", Bordeaux, Valenta, "Egyptian". This beet contains more useful anthocyan, the substance supporting cholesterol level in blood and interfering development of atherosclerosis.
2. Wash up beet by means of a soft brush. Remove the remains of a tops of vegetable. Cook beet to semi-readiness. Take out and drench with cold water - it will be much easier to clean.
3. Clean onions and cut it in cubes. In a frying pan pour vegetable oil. When oil is warmed, add onions. Brown it till golden color.
4. Clean beet. Grate it on a small grater or by means of the meat grinder. Add the received weight to a frying pan. Continue to fry everything together within 5 minutes on slow fire. That beet didn't burn, stir slowly it. Salt and pepper to taste.
5. Put tomato paste in beet. Carefully mix and you extinguish 5-7 more minutes a baking plate the closed cover. Tomato paste can be replaced with one glass of juice. In this case it is necessary to extinguish at an open cover that surplus of liquid was evaporated. Clean and crush garlic. Add it to caviar.
6. Grate one small fresh beet on a small grater. Put it in the cooled-down caviar – "live" vitamins will become more.