Russian Beet Salad
This colorful Russian beet salad is gluten-free and made with easy-to-find ingredients. Sweet beets, crunchy pickles, potatoes, carrots, and peas make this healthy salad delicious and filling.
Ingredients
- 2 beet large-sized, two colors for festive presentation, golden and red
- 3 potatoes medium-sized
- 2 carrot medium-sized
- 4 pickles medium-sized, finely diced
- 1 cup peas frozen or fresh
- 4 tbsp olive oil
- 1/2 tsp sea salt
Instructions
- Gather the ingredients.
- Wash potatoes and beets, don’t peel. Slice beets in half, this will reduce the cooking time. Add beets, carrots, potatoes to the deep pot filled with cold water. Bring on high heat to boil, once boiling reduce the heat to medium and cook till soft, approximately 25 minutes. The beets are cooked when you are able to insert a fork. Once vegetables are cooked, take them out to cool for approximately 10 minutes.
- While cooling, dice pickles into small cubes, add to the large mixing bowl.
- Peel vegetables. Dice beets, potatoes, carrots into small evenly-sized cubes, add to the same mixing bowl, mix well.
- Add peas to the bowl last, add olive oil, salt, mix. Taste, if the salad is not tangy enough add more pickles, if the salad is too dry add more olive oil. Serve cold.
Nutrition
Calories: 314kcalCarbohydrates: 42gProtein: 7gFat: 15gSaturated Fat: 2gSodium: 924mgPotassium: 1052mgFiber: 8gSugar: 8gVitamin A: 5508IUVitamin C: 50mgCalcium: 72mgIron: 3mg
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