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Cook the vinaigrette for 1,5 hours: an hour will be required for cooking and peeling all vegetables, and about half an hour for chopping, serving and harvesting. Active time in the kitchen will take half an hour.
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 – a few twigs
How to cook
1. Boil the beets for 40 minutes to 2 hours, depending on the size, potatoes for 20-25 minutes and carrots for 20-25 minutes. Beets are cooked separately from carrots and potatoes so as not to color them. However, if you put the beets in a bag, you can boil all the vegetables in 1 saucepan, taking them out when ready.
2. Peel and cut the onion into half rings.
3. Finely chop 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. Combine all ingredients in a bowl.
11. Season with salt, oil and mix well.
12. Garnish with green onions.
How to cook vegetables for 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, according to 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. Put the whole carrots on the second shelf, and cut the potatoes into large pieces on the third. Chopped beets are cooked for about 40 minutes, carrots and sliced potatoes are cooked for about 30 minutes, but due to the fact that all these vegetables are one higher than the other, they will all be cooked ± at the same time.
Delicious facts
How long 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.
– AT traditional composition The vinaigrette includes the following foods: boiled potatoes, beets, carrots, chilled pickles, onions and sauerkraut. Everything is cut for the dish in equal proportions, with the exception of carrots and onions. The first product is used in less quantity, and onions, on the contrary, more. Salad is dressed with salt, pepper, a little vegetable oil and XNUMX% vinegar. Greens are sometimes added.
– Name dishes – vinaigrette – borrowed from French cuisine. Unlike modern salad, in France, vinaigrette is called a classic sauce, which includes grape vinegar and olive oil.
– If the vinaigrette contains salted cucumbersseasoned with oil, then the vinaigrette is considered to spoil quickly – store for a maximum of a day.
– Unusually preparation of 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 fragrant.