Description

Stewed beets It will be an excellent side dish for absolutely any meat dish or even serve as an independent dish. And if you know how to cook it correctly and tasty, then it will replenish your diet with a wide variety of healthy vitamins and minerals. Beets have a positive effect on the performance of the food system, on the functioning of the heart, and also strengthens bones in every possible way.

At home, you can prepare many different dishes from beets, but today we will stew our root vegetable in a rich sour cream sauce. By the way, we will also prepare it ourselves, using a simple step-by-step recipe with photos. Delicious beets stewed with onions will be saturated with milky flavor and will become even more tender and juicy. You can also use garlic instead of onions, and add your favorite dried herbs or other spices to the recipe if desired. This delicious side dish will not leave you indifferent and you will easily figure out how to cook stewed beets yourself.

Ingredients

• 
  (200 g)
• 
  (10 g)
• 
  (25 g)
• 
  (100 g)
• 
  (10 g)
• 
  (pinch)
• 
  (10 g)
• 
  (taste)

Cooking steps

Before stewing, we need to thoroughly wash and cook the beets. After this, you need to peel it and cut it into neat small cubes as shown in the photo.



Peel the indicated amount of onion and chop it very finely.



Heat a small piece of animal fat in a frying pan and then pour chopped onion onto it. Stirring, fry the onion until golden brown.



Add diced boiled beets to the fried onions in the pan and mix the ingredients.



Additionally, we prepare a special sour cream sauce. To do this, heat a clean frying pan on a nearby burner, pour flour onto it and lightly fry.





Mix the ingredients thoroughly and heat the sauce.



Pour the resulting sauce into the specified amount of beets and onions, mix the ingredients and simmer them over medium heat for 15-20 minutes.



The finished dish can be placed on plates and served. Stewed beets with onions and sour cream are ready.



Bon appetit!

So familiar in our latitudes, an obligatory attribute of borscht, vinaigrettes and beetroot soups, beets were brought to us back in the days of Kievan Rus from Byzantium. Already ancient researchers of healthy food assessed the medicinal properties of beets as exceptional. Modern scientists not only confirmed the observations of their predecessors, but also proved: beets are a unique vegetable and cannot be replaced by any other vegetable in the human diet!!!

Beets are useful because they contain the lipotropic substance betaine, which regulates fat metabolism. Magnesium, contained in abundance in beets, helps treat atherosclerosis and hypertension. Beets have a diuretic and laxative effect. It relieves pain, has an anti-inflammatory effect, promotes recovery, helps the body fight depression and is an excellent hangover remedy when used in meat borscht.

Beets are good for healthy blood formation. It contains microelements responsible for these processes. People whose diet includes beets rarely suffer from anemia. Beets are essential for pregnant women. Folic acid, which is included in its composition, is vital at the planning stage of a child and at the beginning of pregnancy, since without it a healthy nervous system of the little one will not form. In addition, beets are a low-calorie product.

This is our wonderful miracle vegetable, beets!!!

I wish you lightness and a wonderful mood!!!

beets stewed in sour cream

So much has been said about the benefits of beets that it is not worth repeating. Tasty and healthy! Today we are preparing beets stewed in sour cream. An excellent side dish when served hot and a delicious appetizer when served cold.

Compound

• 1 kg beets
• 2 onions
• 3-4 cloves of garlic
• 100-150 g sour cream
• salt, vegetable oil

Preparation

Wash the beets thoroughly and cook or bake in the oven until tender in the skins. Peel the finished beets and cut into small cubes or grate on a coarse grater. Peel the onion, cut into cubes and fry in a deep frying pan in vegetable oil until light golden brown.

Add beets to the onions, stir, simmer over low heat for 5-7 minutes, add sour cream, finely chopped garlic, salt (half a teaspoon),

stir and simmer for another 10 minutes. Very tasty with cutlets and fried meat.

Note

As I already said, the cold dish can be served as a salad or as an addition to the main side dish. Perfect as a stand-alone snack. Quite satisfying, low in calories and healthy. There are almost no contraindications to this vegetable. It is recommended to limit consumption in case of osteoporosis (beets reduce the absorption of calcium), diabetes mellitus (they contain a lot of carbohydrates), and urolithiasis (beets contain a lot of aggressive salts that provoke the growth of stones in the kidneys and bladder). But you probably aren’t going to eat kilograms of this healthy root vegetable?!
Bon appetit!

INGREDIENTS

• peeled (!) boiled dark burgundy beets, sweet 500 g
• sour cream 18-20% fat, medium thickness 110 g
• butter from natural cream 82.5% fat 20 g
• some zest of 1 small lemon (optional)

STEP-BY-STEP COOKING RECIPE

Wash, place in boiling water and boil the beets in their skins over low heat until tender (ready beets can be easily pierced with a sharp knife). This may take 40-45 minutes. After cooking, drain the water and leave the beets in the pan to cool at room temperature (under a loosely closed lid) or move them to a cool place, for example, on a balcony, if the temperature there is higher than +5-6 °C.

Immediately before preparing the dish, if you plan to use its zest in the recipe, wash the lemon with warm running water and soap and pour boiling water for 30-60 seconds to wash off the layer of preservatives from its surface, then drain the water and dry the citrus with a paper napkin.

Cut off the top and tail of each cooled beet, then peel it, cut it in half and cut into slices about 5 mm thick.

In an aluminum or any other frying pan with a diameter of approximately 23 cm and a height of 8 cm, melt the amount of butter required for the recipe “until it sizzles” over low heat. Immediately place the beet pieces in it and fry over low heat, stirring from time to time, until the bulk of it is lightly golden and caramelized (changes color to a brighter color).

Then add sour cream to the vegetables and simmer them together a little, stirring constantly, so that the sour cream warms up, curls slightly (it goes into “flakes”) and turns into a “beetroot” color, and every piece of vegetables is covered with it.

Cool the prepared beets with sour cream until warm, without covering the pan with a lid, then place on serving plates, sprinkling each serving with a small amount of finely grated lemon zest (optional), and serve. If you like a sweet-salty contrast in your dishes, you can sprinkle the beets with a small amount (to taste) of Serbian cheese when serving, or even warm it up a little with it (at the end of the cooking process in step 5), as my eldest daughter does.

Leftover beets can be stored in the refrigerator at a temperature of 0-6 ° C for no more than a day, and before use, allow them to warm up at room temperature or heat them up, for example, in the microwave. But it’s still better to eat this dish right away: it’s good when it’s freshly prepared.

Beetroot is a root vegetable rich in vitamins, micro- and macroelements. Dishes made from it are useful for low hemoglobin and anemia. One of the most popular ways to cook beets is stewing. It allows you to preserve the maximum amount of nutrients contained in the product. And stewed beets in sour cream is one of the most exquisite and original dishes.

Beets stewed in sour cream: different recipes

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Beets stewed in sour cream with seasonings

Stewed beets are an excellent side dish for meat dishes, mashed potatoes, and boiled rice. You will need: - 2 medium beets; - 1 medium carrot; - 1 small parsley root; - 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil; - 1 glass of sour cream; - 1 tablespoon of flour; - 1 teaspoon of sugar; - salt to taste; - 1 bay leaf; - 0.5 teaspoon of vinegar (6%).

Peel the beets, carrots, parsley and grate the root vegetables on a coarse grater. Place the vegetables in a saucepan with vegetable oil, sprinkle them with vinegar, add a couple of tablespoons of water and place on low heat.

Stewed beets can be eaten cold or hot.

You need to simmer the vegetables for about 40 minutes, stirring constantly. Then add a tablespoon of flour to the dish and stir thoroughly. Now you need to season the beets with sour cream, salt, add sugar, bay leaf, mix and simmer for another 10 minutes. You need to remove the bay leaf from the finished beets to prevent bitterness.

To make the dish more flavorful, you can season it with a pinch of oregano.

Stew beets with garlic and sour cream

Fans of spicy food can delight themselves with beets stewed with garlic. It is very simple to prepare, for this you will need: - 1 large beet; - 4 cloves of garlic; - 0.5 pods of hot pepper; - 100 grams of sour cream; - 2 green onions; - salt to taste; - pepper to taste.

Peel large beets and grate on a coarse grater. Then fry it in hot vegetable oil for ten minutes. Finely chop the garlic, onion feathers and hot peppers, mix them with sour cream. Place the mixture in a frying pan with beets, pepper and salt, stir. Simmer the beets over low heat for five minutes.