Beet

An excellent and healthy appetizer of beets with horseradish is beets marinated with horseradish, spices and butter. It is served with first courses, aspic, meat, and smoked meats. It is also tasty to spread on bread and eat with a soup light. The snack is so spicy, aromatic.

Ingredients:

• Beets - 600 grams;
• horseradish - 100 grams;
• sunflower oil - 70 grams;
• sugar - 30 grams;
• ground bitter pepper - 0.6 grams;
• vinegar 9% - 60 milliliters.

Step by step recipe for beets marinated with horseradish, spices and butter

1. Rinse the beets in several waters, and blanch in salted water for about 25-30 minutes.
2. Then peel, rinse.
3. Cut the beets into very small cubes or circles, or you can even grate them.
4. Horseradish should be washed in cold water and soak for 24 hours.
5. Then peel the horseradish, grate or mince.
6. Then chopped beets and horseradish to put in an enameled bowl. Add sugar, salt, ground bitter pepper, refined sunflower oil. Mix everything well.
7. Heat the mixture over moderate heat to 75 ° C, then remove from heat. Add vinegar, mix again. Pack in jars.
8. And put the jars pasteurized in a pot of water, on the bottom of which lay a tissue napkin. Pasteurize jars of 0.5 liters - 20 minutes, liter - 25 minutes. Then immediately roll up the cans with lids.

Beets marinated with horseradish, spices and oil are a rich vitamin complex that in winter will help withstand colds and viral diseases.

Delicious to you preparations, and bon appetit!