A Brisk Beetroot Salad
Most supermarkets are selling ready-made salads of shredded, pickled beetroot mixed with a creamy dressing all year round, although it really is not that hard to make a beetroot salad for your own taste.
Beetroot salad is served on our modified Christmas table to accompany various cold meat and smoked fish dishes.
This beetroot salad recipe has become a keeper:
INGREDIENTS:
serves 4
* 6 pickled beetroots
* 2 sourish apples
* 1 dl (100 ml) mayonnaise
* 1 dl (100 ml) crème fraiche
* 1 tablespoon horseradish, grated
* ½ tablespoon yellow onion, grated
* salt
* pepper
* lemon juice
METHOD:
1. Peel the apples and cut them into small cubes.
2. Cut the beetroots into small pieces, cubes or thin strips.
3. Mix mayonnaise, crème fraiche, horseradish and onion.
4. Fold the beetroots and apples into the sauce.
5. Taste with salt, pepper and lemon juice.
*You can substitute mayonnaise and crème fraiche with fat free or low fat products.
One thing is for sure: Our Christmas table is only a pale copy of old-time Christmas tables. There are many reasons for that.
The number one reason: Christmas was the one time of the year when our ancestors were allowed to overindulge in food and beverages.
When families gathered for the Christmas "smörgåsbord" on Christmas Eve, everything on the table was homemade - protein-rich and fat. But yet, they had no problems with weight gain.
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4 comments:
Those were good times - eating and having fun without worrying about weight issues, high blood pressure, diabetes... :)
This salad sounds like a good idea, Karin!
Patricia: My father was tall and slender. He had a low blood pressure and no diabetes.
He enjoyed rich and full-fat foods, smoked and didn´t say no to alcohol. He was nearly 90 years old when he died of old age.
Nowadays, eating has become rather complicated for several reasons.
I can only imagine how well this goes with meat.
Cynthia: Yes, it does. Some people prefer to serve a similar salad - a herring salad made with beetroots, apples, boiled and cold diced potatoes. I am not a big fan of that kind of herring salad, but I really like to make other herring dishes - greatly appreciated by my sons.
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