Classic recipe
Foods for 5 servings (about 1300 grams)
Beets - 300 grams
Carrots - 200 grams
Potatoes - 300 grams
Sauerkraut - 150 grams
Pickled cucumbers - 150 grams
Salad onion - 100 grams
Green peas - 200 grams
Salt, vegetable oil, pepper - to taste
Green onions - several branches
How to cook
1. Boil the beets from 40 minutes to 2 hours depending on the size, potatoes 20-25 minutes and carrot 20-25 minutes. Beets are cooked separately from carrots and potatoes, so as not to color them. However, if we put beets in a bag, you can cook all vegetables in 1 pot, taking them out as soon as they are ready.
2. Peel and cut the onion into half rings.
3. Finely chop the onion.
4. Cut pickled cucumbers into cubes.
5. Sauerkraut, if large - cut.
6. Peel the carrots and cut into cubes.
7. Peel the beets, cut into cubes. To prevent the beets from staining the rest of the products, it must be seasoned with vegetable oil.
8. Cut the potatoes into cubes.
9. Drain the juice from the jar of green peas.
10. Mix all ingredients in a bowl.
11. Season with salt, oil and mix well.
12. Garnish with green onions.
How to cook vegetables for a vinaigrette in a double boiler
In order for the vegetables for the vinaigrette to be cooked in a double boiler at the same time, you need to correctly arrange them on the shelves, depending on the cooking speed. The steam temperature is higher than the temperature of boiling water, for this beet, as the longest - the boiled vegetable must be cut into pieces and laid on the lower tier so that it is most in contact with the steam. Place the whole carrots on the second shelf, and cut the potatoes into large pieces on the third. Chopped beets are boiled for about 40 minutes, carrots and sliced potatoes are boiled for about 30 minutes, but due to the fact that all these vegetables are higher, they will all be cooked ± at the same time.
Fusofacts
How much to cook beets for vinaigrette? is perhaps the most popular question regarding the recipe for a popular dish. The answer is: 40 minutes whole medium beets and 20 minutes if you cut the beets into pieces.Vinaigrette recipe over the years is changing... Often finely chopped herring is added to the salad, but in this case, sauerkraut is not used, and more onions and boiled potatoes are added. Often, other dressings, mayonnaise, mustard and even yogurt are used instead of traditional vegetable oil.
- IN traditional composition The vinaigrette includes the following foods: boiled potatoes, beets, carrots, chilled pickles, onions and sauerkraut. Everything is cut in equal proportions for the dish, with the exception of carrots and onions. The first product is used in smaller quantities, while onions, on the contrary, are used more. The salad is seasoned with salt, pepper, a little vegetable oil and three percent vinegar. Greens are sometimes added.
- Name dishes - vinaigrette - borrowed from French cuisine. Unlike modern salad, in France, vinaigrette is called a classic sauce, which contains grape vinegar and olive oil.
- If the vinaigrette contains salted cucumbers, seasoned with oil, then the vinaigrette is considered to spoil quickly - store for a maximum of a day.
- Unusual making a vinaigrette from baked products. Recently, this method is considered popular. Its peculiarity is that, instead of boiling, the products are baked in foil in the oven - then the dish turns out to be more aromatic.